A new value of the ‘display’ property called flow-root has shipped in Chrome Canary and Firefox Nightly — Rachel Andrew looks at what it can do.
Rachel Andrew
An optimization to throttle background tabs’ timers will be included, but Samuel Reed has some concerns over things this could break.
Samuel Reed
This step-by-step tutorial covers how to create a responsive email using MJML, a framework that abstracts away a lot of the HTML email cruft.
Nicolas Garnier
npm’s the obvious choice for managing JavaScript dependencies, but when Ellie Mae built a web app, they needed to keep some code private. How? “Choose tools that work with the grain of how you want to work, and work with the grain of your tools…”
npm, Inc.
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New WebKit features in 10.1 include CSS Grid support, the ability to specify CSS colors in wider color spaces, IndexedDB 2.0, and support for Fetch, a replacement for XMLHttpRequest.
Apple
A rundown of the new features in Firefox 51, a relatively substantial release feature-wise with WebGL 2, FLAC support, warning for non-secure logins, and more.
Mozilla
A controversial thought-piece on whether ‘non semantic CSS’ is always a bad thing. The author states: “I think “semantic CSS” is pretty much disconnected from today’s authoring workflows and goals.”
Thierry Koblentz
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Best in Class UI Components for Angular Development – Kendo UI for Angular 100% jQuery-free Angular components built from the ground-up which deliver the business app essential building blocks. Progress Sponsor
HTML5 Page Structure Basics tutorial Louis Lazaris
A 5 Minute Intro to Styled Components tutorial Sacha Greif
Fun Web Animation Effects with KUTE.js, a JS Animation Engine tutorial Antonietta Perna
Balancing Text and Images with Flexbox tutorial Dudley Storey
Animate to Different End States Using One Set of CSS Keyframes tutorial Ana Tudor
Communicating Between Web Workers via MessageChannel tutorial Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
Building a Simple Pie Chart in SVG tutorial David Gilbertson
3 Ways to Create a Table With Borders Only On The Inside tutorial CSS Tricks
A Simple Use of CSS Grid tutorial A basic two column layout using Grid with a Flexbox fallback. Tim Smith
Code-Splitting Your Way to Better Performance with Webpack video A quick 6 minute conversation. Google Chrome Developers
5 Web Trends for 2017 opinion What’s coming with PWAs; functional reactivity; looking beyond REST to GraphQL and Falcor; and more. Allyson MacDonald
Best UX Practices for Long Scrolling Pages opinion Nick Babich
Making Magic with WebSockets and CSS3 story Hélio Dolores
Graaf: A Collection of Pure CSS Grid Overlays for Designing tools
How to find and fix the slowest code in your .NET application tools Find bottlenecks in your code or database and boost performance with the new ANTS Performance Profiler 9. Try free. Red Gate Sponsor
Simple Electron App Samples code Electron makes it easy to build cross platform apps with JS, HTML and CSS. Electron
Quark: A Microscopic Atomic CSS Polyfill in 140 Bytes code Classes like color-red fontSize-20 get translated to CSS automatically. Tommy Hodgins
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