This Week's HTML5, CSS and Browser Tech News #261
FrontEnd Focus
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Advanced Web Ranking This study looks at HTML usage data from 8M pages gathered from top Google results (for about 30M keywords, chosen by volume). An example: The average web page uses twenty-five different element types.
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Tim Severien A look at HTML5 input elements, how each browser interprets them and what the best strategy is for using them in your web projects.
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Telerik Developer Network The transcript of a chat with web and mobile dev experts discussing whether the jQuery project is still useful for modern web development.
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Abbey Fitzgerald An overview of how CSS Feature Queries can be used to detect support for specific features on different browsers.
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Una Kravets JavaScript is great, yet you can build so many functional UI components without it. Here’s a number of typical web components built with HTML and CSS/SCSS.
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Estelle Weyl A practical exploration of the native Web accessibility landscape with expert Estelle Weyl.
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Christian Holst The benefits of inline form validation are numerous when implemented correctly but many sites don’t use it or do it poorly. Lots of tips here.
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- Front End Developer at GeckoboardGeckoboard is a successful and growing 30-person startup based in East London looking for curious and creative problem solvers to help create beautiful UIs with React and ES6. Geckoboard
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In brief - AMP Is One Year Old and Growing Fast news
Greg Sterling - Blink Intent to Implement: The 'system-ui' Generic Font Family news
This new generic font family allows a standardized way to use the system font, on all platforms Blink supports.
blink-dev - Is WebVR Ready? The Current State of WebVR Browser Support news
Mozilla VR Team - Join Google for Polymer Summit 2016 via Livestream on 17-18 October news
Two days of talks on Polymer, Web Components, Progressive Web Apps, and the future of the mobile web.
Google Inc. - Latest WebKit Build Supports JavaScript Internationalization API news
WebKit - Why Nexedi is Suing Apple for Better HTML5 Support in iOS news
Nexedi - Chrome Dev Summit 2016 news
Chrome Dev Summit 2016 will take place in San Francisco, CA on Nov 10-11. Join Chrome VP Darin Fisher for two days of announcements and talks from the Chrome team. Register with code FRONTENDFOCUS.
Google Inc. SPONSOR - Building a Maintainable and Scalable CSS Codebase with ITCSS tutorial
Oliver Thomas Klein - Styling Underlines on the Web tutorial
Styling the underlines that sit beneath links can be trickier than you’d think — this post aims to get you up to speed on your options.
John Jameson - Responsive Images 201: Client Hints tutorial
Client Hints can make the day-to-day task of creating responsive images easier by greatly simplifying the markup.
Jason Grigsby - Level up your Ember Skills with simplabs' workshops course
simplabs are offering Ember.JS workshops, ranging from 3 day Jumpstart events to advanced workshops which cover techniques like complex component architectures, FastBoot and Testing.
simplabs SPONSOR - You Might Not Need a CSS Framework video
Frameworks can come at a cost, paid in big CSS files and unused styles.
Belen Albeza - The Right Layout Tool for The Job video
Rachel Andrew takes a look at Flexbox, CSS Grid Layout and Box Alignment through a lens of performance.
WebExpo - Your Body Text Is Too Small opinion
Why website body text should be bigger, and ways to optimize it.
Christian Miller - Critical Style Snapshot: Capture CSS Used Above The Fold tools
Capture and copy CSS above the fold with one click.
Léon Smit - Hero Patterns: Repeatable SVG Background Patterns For Your Projects tools
Steve Schoger - Jpeg.io: Web Service to Convert Any Image into a Highly Optimized JPEG tools
Kraken.IO - Convert Any Font-Awesome Icons to SVG or IMG Assets code
CrocodileJS - A Tweet-Sized CSS Layout Debugger code
A tweet-sized debugger for visualizing your CSS layouts. Outlines every DOM element on your page a random CSS hex color.
Addy Osmani - Chnl: Connect Together Web Audio API Effects and Channels code
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