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Now a W3C Candidate Recommendation, the HTML 5.2 spec defines the second minor revision of HTML. A few things are up for potential deprecation including the ‘menu’ and ‘dialog’ elements.
W3C
The history of all the languages which almost became CSS and the development of the styled web.
Zack Bloom
Avoid back-and-forth changes to website content by enabling anyone on your team to make changes themselves. Component IO is a modular CMS that easily integrates with any website & allows even non-technical teammates to make edits without learning new tools.
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Mozilla is preparing to outmanoeuvre Google’s Chrome browser, beginning with the release of Firefox 57 in November.
Stephen Shankland
Some guidelines to improve the accessibility of your site from color choices through to helpful tools and HTML element choices.
Eva Ferreira
Firefox on Windows is the first desktop browser to support the new WebVR standard (with macOS support ready now in Firefox Nightly).
Mozilla Hacks
grid-gap properties are changing in favour of more generic gap, column-gap and row-gap properties.
Rachel Andrew
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CSS Containment Module Level 1: W3C Recommendation news
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W3C Launches a WebAssembly Working Group news
Bradley Nelson
Service Worker Support Coming to Safari news
Initial implementation steps in Safari appear to be taking place.
Maxim Salnikov
Companies Are Losing Web Accessibility Lawsuits news
The ‘Americans with Disabilities Act’ means companies cannot discriminate.
Lainey Feingold
Critical CSS & Webpack: Automatically Minimize Render-Blocking CSS tutorial
Anthony Gore
The new front end: building experiences for devices, Facebook & mobile tutorial
The final blog post in a series examining technologies that are driving the development of modern web and mobile applications.
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If You Hate FOUT, 'font-display: optional' Might Be Your Jam tutorial
Your options to avoid showing a ‘Flash of Unstyled Text’.
Chris Coyier
6 Ways to Detect Chrome Headless tutorial
If you want to detect bots, perhaps.
Antoine Vastel
Focusing on Focus tutorial
Mouse and keyword handle focus differently, and the behaviour can change depending on what browser you use. Chris runs through why that matters for accessibility and offers a solution.
Chris DeMars
Keyboard-Only Focus tutorial
Another look at :focus variation between browsers.
Roman Komarov
Are You Concerned About Accessibility? tutorial
How to educate developers on creating accessible websites.
Daniela Matos de Carvalho
Solving CSS Versioning Conflicts tutorial
How New Relic’s engineering teams solve CSS versioning conflicts.
Javier Sánchez-Marín
A Designer’s Guide to Flexbox and Grid tutorial
Jon Yablonski
Using CSS to Detect and Count Prime Numbers tutorial
Crazy but fun. Demo here.
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The Flash Games Postmortem video
Kongregate’s John Cooney looks at the immense history of Flash games.
Game Developers Conference
After a 23-Year Wait, WebVR Ships Today story
The tale of the history of VR on the Web.
Sean White
Web Maker: How I Built a Fast, Offline Frontend Playground story
Kushagra Gour
Resolving CSS Gridlock opinion
Matthias Ott
A CSS Grid Highlighter for Chrome tools
Adem Ilter
DisplayJS: A Simple, Lightweight JS Framework for Building Ambitious UIs tools
Arthur Guiot
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JPNG.svg: Combine PNG Transparency with the Compression of a JPEG tools
A drag and drop tool that compresses large transparent images.
Stephen Shaw
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