A look at the themes and trends for the popular Chrome DevTools going forward, including an improved ‘Device Mode’, source diffing, and live Sass editing.
Google
Originally, headings were meant to nest within sectioning elements, but in actual user agents, things haven’t worked out as originally intended.
Steve Faulkner
A slimmer, faster version of jQuery without all the old IE workarounds and taking advantage of modern browser APIs. There’s an upgrade guide and a script to help with migrations.
jQuery Foundation
Create resolution-independent, scalable, complex animations for a myriad of use cases across the web with SVG.
Frontend Masters
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A fun tutorial from browser-based musical mastermind Stuart Memo on tying up the Web Audio API and pointer location to recreate an early electronic instrument.
Stuart Memo
At WWDC, Apple announced its “Pay” system will become available on the Web, and Apple’s Edward O’Connor wonders if the existing Payment Request API could become compatible with it.
W3C
Building on top of open source tools helped improve the quality of CSS at Facebook and set the stage for community-wide rules and guidelines.
Juriy Zaytsev
Web Inspector, as used in WebKit and Safari, now includes two new timelines for debugging a page’s memory usage.
Joseph Pecoraro
Jared Faris discusses the most important new features in web standards, in particular JavaScript, that you should be watching carefully.
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In Brief
What's New in Chromium 51 and Opera 38 news Also covers Chrome 51. Lots of ES6 updates, but also the Presentation API and Intersection Observer API. Mathias Bynens
What’s New in Safari 10 for Web Developers news Safari 10 will ship with macOS Sierra this fall. Apple
Google Fonts Site Gets Major Update news The fonts Google hosts are commonly used across the Web, so it’s great to see the site become even better. Google Fonts
Firefox 47 for Developers news Mozilla
Next Steps for Legacy Plug-ins in Safari news On sites offering “Flash and HTML5 implementations of content, Safari users will now always experience the modern HTML5 implementation.” Ricky Mondello
The SaveAs Webinar: Exporting Content from JavaScript Apps rawurl news Implementing export functionality in your web apps presents a multitude of challenges. Learn how to tackle them. Kendo UI by Progress Sponsor
How z-index and Auto Margins Work in Flexbox tutorial George Martsoukos
Using The HTML 'lang' Attribute tutorial Léonie Watson
Performance Observer: Efficient Access to Performance Data tutorial Beginning in Chrome 52, the performance observer interface is enabled by default, giving you programmatic access to low level timing data. Google
Building Real-Time Apps with WebSockets and Server-Sent Events tutorial Mark Brown
Building a WebRTC Video Chat Application with PeerJS tutorial Wern Ancheta
Faster Rendering on the Web opinion By eschewing a few “best practices”, we can achieve the web’s promise of immediacy. Ben Halpern
WebGL, Blending, and Why You're Probably Doing it Wrong opinion David Hart
Dropsource: New visual builder for mobile apps that codes for you rawurl tools No more repetitive coding. Visually design an app. Easily connect APIs. Dropsource writes truly native code. Dropsource Sponsor
7 PostCSS Plugins to Ease You into PostCSS tools Craig Buckler
css-grid-inspector: Firefox Extension to See Grid Lines Created by CSS Grid tools Mozilla
plyr: A Simple HTML5 YouTube and Vimeo Player code A simple, accessible and customizable player for modern browsers. Selz
A Novel Interactive Customer Feedback Form demo Drag the monkey’s mouth up or down to submit feedback. Jamie Coulter
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