The latest minor revision of W3C’s interpretation of HTML. Its relevance as a spec versus WHATWG’s work remains under dispute, however.
W3C
Pointer events unify the pointer input model for the browser, bringing touch, pens, and mice together into a single set of events. IE 11, Edge, and Chrome 55 support them so far.
Google Developers
Webpack is a popular JavaScript, CSS and resource/asset bundler. This post walks through using the soon to be released 2nd version.
Drew Powers
Chrome Dev Summit 2016 will feature two full days of talks from the Chrome team, including a keynote address by Chrome VP Darin Fisher. All sessions will be livestreamed from our website on November 10-11. Sign up here for livestream updates.
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The WebAssembly project has reached the browser preview milestone, with multiple interoperable implementations from Firefox, Edge and the V8 project now available.
Seth Thompson
A look at getting information from MIDI devices, such as digital pianos, in the browser (Chrome and Opera so far) with JavaScript.
Stoyan Stefanov
What types of assistive technology are used to access the Web? Screen magnifiers and readers come in as most common.
Chris Moore
An overview of OpenType features, explaining why they’re important to typefaces, and explaining the tradeoffs they have on performance. 26 minutes.
Helen Holmes
How shaders work and how you can build your own to render graphics in the browser.
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Ashley Nolan
A fantastic, thorough guide to creating SVGs for use on the Web. Packed with examples and code.
W3C
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Blink/Chrome Intent to Ship: WebGL 2.0 news This will narrow the graphics feature gap between desktop and mobile devices. blink-dev
What's New and What's Changed in Bootstrap 4 news Telerik Developer Network
What's New in Chromium 54 and Opera 41 news Custom Elements v1, Canvas imageSmoothingQuality, BroadcastChannel API, and CSS text-size-adjust Mathias Bynens
async/await Support in Firefox news Support for async/await has been added to the Firefox Nightly build. Demo here. Mozilla
Project Quantum: A Quantum Leap for the Web news Mozilla’s latest effort to develop a next-generation web engine. David Bryant
Webmention: A W3C Proposed Recommendation news Provides a mechanism for a page to notify another page when it mentions its URL. W3C
10 Principles for Smooth Web Animations tutorial Anand Sharma
Carousels Don't Have to be Complicated tutorial Chris Coyier
A Deep-Dive Into The Service Worker Lifecycle tutorial Jake Archibald
Vertical Alignment in CSS video Guy Routledge explores vertical-align in this 5 min screencast with transcript. Sitepoint
Control Image Aspect Ratio Using CSS video How to resize images and videos to fill their parent and maintain their aspect ratio with pure CSS. Damon Bauer
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flv.js: An HTML5 FLV Player code Bilibili
Shave: Truncate Text To Fit Within an HTML Element code Dollar Shave Club
Recordy: Audio Recording for Browsers code Record your microphone (or any other input) and add effects to it directly in the browser. Maximilian Torggler
Sorting a 50K Array With and Without HTML5 Web Workers demo Afshin Mehrabani
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