Creating a successful meetup at your company
September 8th, 2018
At Tesla, I came up with an idea to hold monthly Web Development meetups where employees could learn from each other and the external community. We wanted to create better cross-team collaboration, identify sharing opportunities, and identify and leverage best practices. I want to share my story with the hope of inspiring more communication within…
W3C Invites Implementations of CSS Display Module Level 3
August 28th, 2018
The CSS Working Group invites implementations of CSS Display Module Level 3 Candidate Recommendation. This module describes how the CSS formatting box tree is generated from the document element tree and defines the ‘display’ property that controls it.CSS is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen,…
W3C Invites Implementations of CSS Cascading and Inheritance Level 3; Level 4
August 28th, 2018
The CSS Working Group invites implementations of two updated Candidate Recommendations of CSS Cascading and Inheritance Level 3 and CSS Cascading and Inheritance Level 4. The CSS module defined in these documents describes how to collate style rules and assign values to all properties on all elements. By way of cascading and inheritance, values are…
Apps That Work Natively on the Web and Mobile
August 23rd, 2018
Today we’re happy to announce an exciting new way to build web and mobile apps with Angular and NativeScript.First, some background: since the beginning of Angular, you could use NativeScript with Angular to build mobile apps.NativeScript is an open source framework for building truly native mobile apps with JavaScript. It lets you use your existing Angular…
First Public Working Draft: Geolocation Sensor
August 21st, 2018
The Devices and Sensors Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of Geolocation Sensor. This specification defines the GeolocationSensor interface for obtaining geolocation of the hosting device.
2 New Tools to help with AngularJS to Angular Migrations
August 14th, 2018
Many developers are embarking on the migration journey of bringing AngularJS applications up to modern-day web development standards with Angular, and there are a lot of approaches. It can be challenging to know which upgrading path is right and where to find guidance on how to migrate, but it doesn’t have to be!We’re announcing two new…
Call for Review: CSS Fonts Module Level 3 is a W3C Proposed Recommendation
August 14th, 2018
The CSS Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of CSS Fonts Module Level 3. This CSS3 module describes how font properties are specified and how font resources are loaded dynamically. The contents of this specification are a consolidation of content previously divided into CSS3 Fonts and CSS3 Web Fonts modules. The description of font…
W3C Invites Implementations of CSS Scroll Snap Module Level 1 and CSS Values and Units Module Level 3; Level 4 is a First Public Working Draft
August 14th, 2018
The CSS Working Group invites implementations of two updated Candidate Recommendations of CSS Scroll Snap Module Level 1 and CSS Values and Units Module Level 3, and has just published CSS Values and Units Module Level 4 as a First Public Working Draft.The CSS Scroll Snap Module contains features to control panning and scrolling behavior with “snap…
W3C Invites Implementations of Timed Text Markup Language 2 (TTML2)
August 14th, 2018
The Timed Text Working Group invites implementations of an updated Candidate Recommendation of Timed Text Markup Language 2 (TTML2). This document specifies the Timed Text Markup Language (TTML), Version 2, also known as TTML2, in terms of a vocabulary and semantics thereof.The Timed Text Markup Language is a content type that represents timed text media…
August 2018 Security Releases Node.js
August 11th, 2018
SummaryThe Node.js project will be releasing new versions for each of its supported release lines on, or shortly after, the 15th of August, 2018 (UTC). These releases will incorporate a number of security fixes and an upgraded version of OpenSSL. We consider all of the flaws being addressed in these releases to be low severity….