Frontend Focus
Issue 229 — March 2, 2016
Practical explanations and examples. Includes a look at contextual highlighting with ‘mark’, quotations with ‘q’, and more.
SitePoint

The styling has been updated and the spec is now easier to read than ever (although it certainly isn’t bedtime reading).
W3C

The CSS Scroll Snap Points spec promises to help us lock an element into the viewport on scroll without JavaScript. Support varies wildly between browsers so far though.
Sarah Drasner

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Mozilla’s VR team is working hard to support the creation and display or VR content in the browser. Casey Yee looks at what’s happening.
Mozilla Hacks

A look at Google’s AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) project, why it’s worth exploring, and a quick look at how you can convert an existing Web design to using its principles.
David Attard

A look at a new Web standard aimed at improving performance and providing more granular control over loading to Web developers.
Smashing Magazine

Mozilla wants the DevTools in Firefox to be as hackable as the Web sites you’re working on. Reload lets you make changes to the tools themselves in real time with automatic reloading.
Mozilla Hacks

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    Support for H.264 Video Codec on WebRTC in Chrome Behind Flag news
    discuss-webrtc

    Credential Management Level 1 W3C Editor's Draft news
    Describes an imperative API enabling a site to request credentials from a user agent, and help the user agent store user credentials for future use.
    W3C

    Prototyping the Custom Elements API in WebKit news
    webkit-dev

    Webmention W3C Working Draft news
    A spec defining a simple way for pages to request you notify them when you link to them.
    W3C

    An Interview with Una Kravets news
    Cohost of Toolsday and a developer on IBM Design’s Cloud Platform Team.
    Sarah Drasner

    Kranky Geek WebRTC Event: Bengaluru, India (March 19) news
    Kranky Geek

    FullStack 2016: A JS, Node and IoT Conference in London (July 13-15) news
    CFP is currently open if you want to speak.
    Skills Matter

    Boost Your CSS Animation Performance with the Repaintless.css Library tutorial
    Anna Migas

    SVG Style Inheritance and the ‘Flash Of Unstyled SVG’ tutorial
    Sara Soueidan

    'Squigglevision' Animation with SVG Turbulence Filters tutorial
    Chris Coyier

    React Inline Styles and the Future of CSS video
    Alex Lande

    Walmart's HTML, Web and CSS Style Guide opinion
    This is pretty epic.
    Walmart Labs

    Infinite Scrolling, Pagination Or “Load More” Buttons? Usability Findings In eCommerce opinion
    Smashing Magazine

    Writing A Web Component That Wraps A Standard HTML Element Might Alleviate The Need for is='' Syntax opinion
    Component Kitchen

    A Rewrite of The 'article' Element Definition opinion
    Steve Faulkner

    wring: Extract Content From HTML using CSS Selectors, XPath, and JS tools
    Extract content from webpages using CSS Selectors, XPath, and JS expressions
    Ozan Sener

    Gulp-css-gsub: A Gulp Module to Minify CSS Classes tools
    Ruslan P

    Visual Studio Code Introduces Chrome Debugging for JS tools news
    Lets you debug client-side JavaScript code running inside Google Chrome directly from Visual Studio Code.
    Microsoft

    Pressure.js: For Working with Apple's Force Touch Functionality code
    Safari only for now. Your mileage may vary.
    Stuart Yamartino

    Rubik’s Cube Explorer demo
    Stewart Smith

    Tantalum: A 2D Ultra Light Beam Propagation Simulation demo
    This is everything.
    Benedikt Bitterli

    Web Audio Arpeggiator demo
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