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Learn

How do I keep up with what’s landing in browsers?

Reference docs/wikis

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Itching to learn?

Meet like-minded folks

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Attending local meetups and conferences is a great way to connect with other developers to learn, share resources, and bring new ideas and collaborations to life. Sites like Meetup.com and Lanyrd can help you find events in your neighborhood.

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Attending local meetups and conferences is a great way to connect with other developers to learn, share resources, and bring new ideas and collaborations to life. Sites like Meetup and Lanyrd can help you find events in your neighborhood.

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How to ask for help

  1. You’ll probably want to make a jsfiddle first.
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  2. Create a reduced test case
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  3. Create a reduced test case.
  4. Remember: be specific!
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  5. Ask on IRC, StackOverflow (even its javascript chatroom), or a group of friends +
  6. Ask on IRC, StackOverflow (even its javascript chatroom), or a group of friends.
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You clearly know your way around. Now it's time to show it.
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Help Others

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We've all got to start somewhere! Helping others reassures your knowledge, and also broadens the amount of concepts you're exposed to. Below are some great Open-Source projects that are always looking for help. Remember - no patch is too small!

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Help others

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We've all got to start somewhere! Helping others reassures your knowledge, and also broadens the amount of concepts you're exposed to. Below are some great open-source projects that are always looking for help. Remember - no patch is too small!

Open-Source projects worth your time

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    Pass it on!

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    Give Feedback on Specifications

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    Give feedback on specifications

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    Specs codify the expected behavior. They are developed by Working Groups (WG) along with active discussion on mailing lists. While we can’t always be certain that all browser vendors will adhere to the rules set forth in a spec they provide us with something that we, as developers, can standardize against.

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    Specs codify the expected behavior. They are developed by Working Groups (WG) along with active discussion on mailing lists. While we can’t always be certain that all browser vendors will adhere to the rules set forth in a spec, they provide us with something that we, as developers, can standardize against.

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    • Learn the history of HTML
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    • Take an inside look at how the CSS WG works
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    • Learn the history of HTML.
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    • Take an inside look at how the CSS WG works.
    • Subscribe to these mailing lists to follow and contribute to the discussions that drive the web:
      • public-webapps - technical discussion for the Web Applications Working Group
      • www-style - technical discussion on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and its specifications
      • whatwg - WHATWG's mailing list
      • public-html - W3C HTML Working Group
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      • www-dom - where the DOM is improved +
      • www-dom - where the DOM is improved
      • public-fx - issues affecting the CSS and SVG Working Groups
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    • Read through the HTML5 Spec for developers (the implementor stuff removed, formatted beautifully for you)
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    • The easiest way to comment or give feedback on the contents of the HTML specification, you can select the text you want to comment on and leave a message from the form at the bottom of the page.
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    • Read through the HTML5 Spec for developers (the implementor stuff removed, formatted beautifully for you).
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    • The easiest way to comment or give feedback on the contents of the HTML specification is to select the text you want to comment on and leave a message using the form at the bottom of the page.
    • See the latest commits to the HTML and CSS specs by following their respective working groups on Twitter:
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        Are you specced out?

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        Explore Frontend Features

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        Explore frontend features

        Once you’ve picked up the basics, it’s time to dive a bit deeper into the current (and future) state of web standards! Get excited, because here, we check out advanced CSS, brand-new HTML5 features/APIs, and even what the future of these languages are expected to be. Several new capabilities are now available in browsers, and exploring these new capabilities will help us push the web forward!

        Examples of how to explore features well

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        Examples of how

        Cool features to explore more (and write about)

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        Browsers ship new CSS features all the time. The vendor prefixes we love to hate are actually there so we developers can provide feedback on if the feature meets our needs. Encourage yourself to investigate if they do! This vendor-prefixed CSS property overview, by Peter Beverloo, has a lot of experimental CSS mentioned; much of which is not well understood. Consider writing about them and the items below: +

        Browsers ship new CSS features all the time. The vendor prefixes we love to hate are actually there so we developers can provide feedback on whether the feature meets our needs. Encourage yourself to investigate if they do! This vendor-prefixed CSS property overview, by Peter Beverloo, has a lot of experimental CSS mentioned; much of which is not well understood. Consider writing about them and the items below: