January 15, 2018 at 00:00

The digest of fresh materials from the world of the front-end for the last week No. 297 (January 8 - 14, 2018)

    We bring to your attention a selection with links to new materials from the frontend area and around it.


        Media     |    Web Development     |    CSS     |    Javascript     |    Browsers     |    Entertaining

    Media


    • podcastPodcast "Web Standards", Issue No. 102: Why do we need experiments with CSS, Hayak in JS, how CSS specifications evolve and what prevents them, styles in the component stack.
    • podcastPodcast "Web Standards", Issue No. 103: Browsers and interface development, where to look if you lost an article, a semicolon in JS, it is clear about CSS alignment, Sarah's tricks with SVG, project management, front-end in Berlin.
    • podcastFrontend Weekend podcast # 34 - Oleg Bunin about organizing conferences, Pavel Durov and ticket prices
    • podcastFrontend Weekend podcast # 35 - The shocking truth about Youth Frontend
    • podcastdevschacht podcast: Night frontend # 17 - Webstorm, Wallaby for poor and native modules
    • podcastPodcast “Frontend Youth (18+)” # 31: Should I rewrite your project in Rust?
    • podcastPodcast “Frontend Youth (18+)” # 33: Speculative code execution engine
    • video“ALL YOUR HTML” # 31: “Simple layout and communication”
    • video6 videos from KharkivFrontend Meetup # _0 : Boilerplate, GraphQL, D3, Service Workers , Kiss and How to make money on accessibility
    • video23 reports with FrontFest 2017 : code and creativity, SPA development, graphics optimization, declarative template, algorithms and data structures, accessibility, i18n and more

    Web development


    • The neural network that typeset sites in the picture
    • enFrontend in 2018: more consensus, less complexity
    • enWhat's new in HTML 5.2?
    • enAn overview of HTML 5.2 Dialog
    • enOptimization of SVG Text & Image Delivery using with Inline SVG . When one SVG embedding technique is not enough







    CSS


    • Do we need CSS preprocessors in 2018, or how close are we to vanilla CSS
    • enMake CSS animations more natural
    • enImprove typography with Font Variants
    • enCSS Cheat Sheet - a modern CSS cheat sheet
    • enDemystify CSS alignment
    • en“display: contents” getting closer . Finally, support for “display: contents” is included in Chromium and WebKit, and here are a few words about it
    • enRecent ways to deal with cascade, inheritance, and specificity

    Javascript


    • en2017 Rising Stars in JavaScript . A complete overview of the landscape of 2017: trends of front-end and node frameworks, tools, IDE, mobile, testing, etc.
    • enESLint: do not write JavaScript without it!
    • enA Complete Guide to Deploying a JavaScript Application - Part 1: Database and Deployment API
    • enSix Small but Cool ES7 + ES8 Properties
    • envideo“Creating a JavaScript Robot” - Anna Gerber's CampJS talk







    Браузеры


    • GTK + 2 will be discontinued in Firefox 59
    • enDavid Walsh joins Mozilla DevTools development team
    • enWhat Specter and Meltdown mean for WebKit

    Entertaining


    • Intel and Microsoft have recognized that patches for Meltdown and Specter slow down computers
    • Exploits and performance tests related to vulnerabilities Meltdown and Specter
    • Everything is at risk. What is Meltdown and Specter and how to live with them?
    • A patch against Specter reduces iPhone 6 performance by up to 50%
    • The most interesting AI solutions and projects of 2017
    • CES 2018: The most interesting gadgets of the exhibition
    • Microsoft teamed up with Open Whisper Systems and introduced end-to-end encryption in Skype
    • How to evaluate the project and not to get into trouble? Part 1 , Part 2


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