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A walk through the HTML5 document outline, how it’s supposed to work, and what role HTML5’s semantic elements play in forming it.
Steven Bradley
Part of a string of responses to Flipboard's use of the HTML5 Canvas for performance. Gruber notes: “60 frames per second is not ‘would be nice’. It’s ‘must have’. And the DOM doesn’t have it.”
John Gruber
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Defines a JSON-based manifest that provides developers with a centralized place to put metadata associated with a web application.
W3C
A lightweight HTML, CSS and JS framework for sites that follow Google’s Material Design guidelines. Could be worthwhile if you don’t want to go the whole hog with Bootstrap or Polymer, etc.
MUI
An interesting demo that looks like WebGL at first but it’s just images being transformed by CSS and a little JavaScript glue ( see the code.)
Ferrandez Gerard
Soledad Penadés takes a Firefox-oriented look at some new Web Audio API features including simple stereo panning (as opposed to 3D), audio workers, and new promise-based variations of Web Audio methods.
Mozilla Hacks
Luis Garcia
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The W3C's CSS WG Is Looking to Open Up CSS with JS APIs news
Marcos Caceres
Firefox Nightly now plays Amazon.com Flash videos using Shumway news
firefox-dev list
W3C Working Draft of Media Capture and Streams news
Defines APIs for requesting access to local multimedia devices, such as microphones or video cameras.
W3C
W3C First Public Working Draft of Timed Text Markup Language 2 (TTML2) news
Of particular use for closed captioning/subtitles or any text associated with timings.
W3C
Bringing asm.js to The Chakra JavaScript Engine in Windows 10 news
IEBlog
W3C First Public Working Draft of the Wake Lock API news
Specifies an API that allows web applications to request a ‘wake lock’ where a device will no longer enter a sleep mode automatically.
W3C
YouTube Adopts HTML5 and MSE for Video Playback news
Erica Beavers
Firefox 38 Notifies You About Addons That Slow Down The Browser news
Martin Brinkmann
Introducing @counter-styles for Styling How List Items Are Indicated tutorial
Mozilla Hacks
Better SVG Fallback and Art Direction With The 'picture' Element tutorial
Sara Soueidan
Scoping CSS Animations to Media Queries tutorial
David Walsh
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Are We Animated Yet? Tracking the Progress of Web Animations API in Firefox tools
What Happened to Web Intents? opinion
Paul Kinlan
Progressive Enhancement is Not About JavaScript Availability opinion
“Progressive enhancement is about building robust products and being paranoid about availability.”
Christian Heilmann
The Current Status of Browser-Based Virtual Reality in HTML5 opinion
InfoQ
Flight Stream: A WebGL Visualization of Flights Worldwide demo
Callum Prentice
Motion Blur Experiment demo
CodePen
ARIA Bones: A Simple Annotated HTML Template that uses WAI-ARIA Roles Properly code
Ian Devlin
favico.js: Make Use of Your Site's Favicon with Badges, Images or Videos code
Miroslav Magda
jQuery.scrollSpeed: Lightweight jQuery Extension for Modifying Vertical Scrolling Speed code
Nathan Rutzky
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