The digest of fresh materials from the world of the front-end for the last week No. 282 (September 25 - October 1, 2017)

    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. 88 - Licenses and DRM, the wonders of SVG and border-image, graphics optimization, Shorts and JS-typing, accessible dialogs.
    podcastFrontend Weekend podcast # 21 - Zar Zakharov about “closing” Alpha Lab and leaving LoftBlog
    podcastFive-minute React podcast # 37 - Prettier
    Frontendpodcast Youth (18+) podcast # 20: Start of WebAssembly lecture course
    podcastDrinkcast podcast, Issue # 10: “Hangover, about the community and the podcast”
    video“ALL YOUR HTML” # 16: “Scrolling animations from the iPhoneX website”
    videoHTML Shorts: Sugar JavaScript , habrtext version
    videoI. Subbotnik 2017

    Web development


    habrWhy headlines are needed
    habrIt's time to kill the web
    • The discussion on choosing a WordPress JS framework continues with the involvement of open source community leaders
    8 frontend podcasts
    • The enweb is my API
    enPrinciples for working with responsive images
    enQuestions for interviewing a front-end developer as well as answers to them





    CSS


    en5 things CSS developers would like to know about when they started
    enInteractive introduction to Mozilla’s CSS Grid Layout
    enPitfalls and some CSS Grid tricks by Rachel Andrew
    enImplementing drop-down blocks in pure CSS


    Javascript


    habrV8 under the hood
    enA brief history of modularity in JS
    enJavascript testing frameworks: the best for testing JS code
    enTrue web: JavaScript can't be trusted
    enDawn and sunset Ext JS
    enComparative study of progressive JS frameworks: Angular.js & Vue.js
    en8 performance tips for JavaScript



    • Libs & Plugins:
      enLozad.js — производительная ленивая загрузка для изображений
      enSQIP — плейсхолдеры для изображений, основанные на SVG
      endraggable — современная библиотека для Drag & Drop с интерактивными примерами и эффективным оформлением
      enMicromodal.js — легковесная и настраиваемая библиотека для доступных модальных окон с на чистом JavaScript
      enstrudel.js — легковесный компонентный фреймворк


    Браузеры


    FirefoxFirefox 56 release , some details for developers by Marat Tanalin
    FirefoxFirefox 57 beta with multi-threaded CSS engine and new look
    FirefoxenDeveloper Edition Devtools update: now with Photon UI
    FirefoxenScreenshots, Send Tabs and other advanced features in the new Firefox
    Snapshots screen and currency converter: Opera 48 released
    Opera 49 will be the first browser with support for virtual reality helmets

    Entertaining


    Stack Overflow and Microsoft have developed a helper bot for Visual Studio Code
    Twitter has doubled the message length limit for the first time to 280 characters
    Facebook and Microsoft have launched the most powerful transatlantic Internet cable Marea
    Microsoft has become one of the key sponsors of OSI (Open Source Initiative)
    Nvidia: Moore’s law is no longer relevant, and GPUs will replace CPUs
    Why people don’t like Silicon Valley anymore
    How Apple, Facebook and Google create a new television
    How blockchain technology will change WordPress
    An incredible history of the origin of Google Analytics

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