Heydon Pickering explains how to write less code by using CSS inheritance. If you take a closer look, It’s remarkably good at letting you do a lot with a little.
Smashing Magazine
A quick update from the W3C after its recently publication of HTML 5.1 as a standard. Work on HTML 5.2 is also well underway.
W3C
4715 developers responded to a recent front-end tooling survey and the rather thorough results are shared here.
Ashley Nolan
If you're a HTML5/JS dev, responsive web design is or will be a requirement in the near future. This whitepaper will give you the must-know on responsive web.
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A thorough up to date introduction to Service Workers, a Web technology that can provide your app with rich offline experiences, periodic background syncs, push notifications, and more.
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An interesting experiment and some forthright opinions on where to really draw breakpoints on responsive pages and why.
David Gilbertson
Nitish Kumar shows seven ways in which CSS Grid Layout lets front-end developers quickly and intuitively place content on the web.
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Addy Osmani works through building Progressive Web Apps with a variety of common tools and development frameworks. 47 minutes.
Chrome Dev Summit 2016
A jQuery-based library that allows you to add asynchronous server requests to your pages using HTML attributes alone.
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Firefox's Approach to Add-Ons and Extensions in 2017 news By the end of 2017, and with the release of Firefox 57, we’ll move to WebExtensions exclusively Mozilla
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Pure CSS Horizontal Scrolling tutorial How to tackle horizontal scrolling in your mobile apps with pure CSS. Pieter Biesemans
Using CSS Variables in Site Development tutorial Dudley Storey
Fixing Styles on 'code' Tags Nested Inside Links tutorial Louis Lazaris
Adding and Leveraging a CDN On Your Site tutorial A simple guide aimed at front-end devs. David Attard
SVG Line Animation for the Uninitiated tutorial Evan Dennington
Some Useful Techniques for CSS Print Stylesheets tutorial Manuel Matuzovic
Disqus' Mixed Content Problem and Fixing It with A CSP story Troy Hunt
Generating Content with Service Workers video Ben Foxall
Make Browsers Compatible With the Web video Issues that arise when browsers attempt to clean up the web platform while attempting to remain backwards compatible. 22 minutes Mike Taylor
Accessibility for Front-End Developers video The challenges users face with accessibility and how it’s approached at GOV.UK. 42 minutes Alistair Duggin
Progressive Web Apps: The Definitive Collection of Resources tools A collection of resources from around the web covering the various aspects of building PWAs. Bruce Lawson and Shwetank Dixit
Firefox Focus: A Private Browser for iOS That Blocks Trackers tools Nick Nguyen
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McGriddle: A (Mostly) Get-Out-Of-Your-Way Sass Grid Library code Jonathan Suh
Web Animation Essentials: A CSS Animations and Transitions Online Course course Rachel Nabors
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