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Peter-Paul Koch calls for a moratorium on new browser features for ‘about a year’ in order to catch up with what we already have. I disagree with the proposal but it’s a discussion worth having.
Peter-Paul Koch
Reflections on the W3C forming a new group to work on a digital musical notation standard for the Web. There are currently two pieces to the puzzle: MusicXML and SMuFL.
Create Digital Music
Never write a @font-face rule again using this and PostCSS. Just use ‘font-family’ and it’ll work out the rest.
Jonathan Neal
Opbeat have revamped their free metrics service, adding response time distributions, a full activity breakdown, and the ability to see the actual code that is slowing down the request, where is it called from when it was committed. Read More.
Opbeat
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While not finalized, Chrome’s experimental implementation of the Web Bluetooth API lets you access nearby Bluetooth devices from Web pages.
François Beaufort
Via a designer at Trello comes an eight part CSS guide that provides some structure for writing CSS so it stays clean and maintainable.
Bobby Grace
A tutorial from Lea Verou (extracted from her new CSS Secrets book) on the techniques behind creating dynamic pie charts without any images.
Smashing Magazine
A slick 20 part series of videos (all on YouTube but behind an e-mail wall) on the Flexible Box Model that lets you create elaborate liquid page layouts with CSS.
Wes Bos
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Twitch Starts Dumping Flash for HTML5 news
Engadget
Update On Standardizing Shadow DOM and Custom Elements news
Anne van Kesteren
You Know How to Code, but How Are Your Design Skills? course
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Content Security Policy Level 2 Candidate Recommendation news
Used to declare a set of content restrictions for a web resource, and a mechanism for transmitting the policy from a server to a client where the policy is enforced.
W3C
CSS Display Module Level 3 Working Draft Published news
This module describes how the CSS formatting box tree is generated from the document element tree and the ‘display’ and ‘box-suppress’ properties that control it.
W3C
Phaser 2.4 Released: The Popular HTML5 and JS Gamedev Framework news
Phaser
The Pragmatic Bookshelf Publishes 'Web Development Recipes 2nd Edition' news
The Pragmatic Bookshelf
A Look at Length Units in CSS tutorial
Gajendar Singh
Using the System Font in Web Content (on OS X and iOS) tutorial
Surfin' Safari
Measuring Performance in a Service Worker tutorial
Paul Kinlan
The Web is Too Low-Level opinion
Medium
Vendor Prefixes And Market Reality opinion
otsukare
Cross Browser Testing That Doesn't Suck tools
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Diaporama: WebGL-based Web Slideshow Engine tools code
You’ve seen HTML-powered Web-based slideshows before, but this uses WebGL to take the effects to the next level.
Gaëtan Renaudeau
html5tooltips.js: Light and Clean Tooltips using CSS3 Animation code
Yevhen Tiurin
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