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Getting your head around what ‘microtasks’ are and how browsers queue execution of tasks and microtasks in its event loops is essential if you’re doing performance work or debugging code heavy on timeouts, events, and promises. You will feel smarter after reading this.
Jake Archibald
A typographic pre-processor for your html which uses no client-side JavaScript (it’s a Node script) and gives hanging punctuation, small-caps conversion, punctuation substitution, and more.
David Merfield
“The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has revamped its display creative guidelines to ‘fully embrace’ HTML5.” Adobe supports the move.
The Drum
 Transactional HTML emails often get neglected but they're important for growing and maintaining a healthy user base. To help you, we have open-sourced a collection of common templates for transactional email to download for free. Tables, inline CSS, unsupported CSS, desktop clients, web clients, mobile clients, various devices, various providers - all thought about and tested. Download now.
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“The future of web layout is bright, thanks to flexbox,” says Ben Gremillion before presenting a short, easily understood primer.
Smashing Magazine
New Edge features in development include support for the ‘download’ attribute on links, time and datetime-local input types, picture elements, template elements, Pointer Lock support and more.
Microsoft
A look at WebKit’s work on CSS pseudo classes that take other selectors as arguments. For example, a:not(.internal) would match A elements that are not of the ‘internal’ class.
Surfin' Safari
Service Workers require HTTPS, but how can you do this in your local development environment? Andrea shows us the way.
Andrea Giammarchi
Inlining ‘critical’ CSS (that is, CSS that’s needed right away and helps pages render faster) into the head of an HTML document can provide a real speed boost, but how can it be done effectively? Dean Hume explains.
Smashing Magazine
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