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Sorry for the late edition! I was so honored to have been invited to Munich to keynote at JS Kongress. You can already watch my talk, The Browser Is Not a Document Reader! It's about how three things introduced in Internet Explorer 4—the DOM API, data-binding, and asynchronous JavaScript—have shaped how we build the web today, two decades later.

I was amazed in researching this how much the technologies we build today really do escalate and impact what the next generation of designers and developers build. Worth thinking about!

— Rachel Nabors, Editor

Every gaming event site should interactivity and play! Meet & Build, by Reed and Quai10, uses background scroll animations and click-and-drag interactivity— so go bounce some spheres around!
—Ivana McConnell, Features Editor

[VR] Coursera launched a set of Virtual Reality courses open to everyone!

[VR] [Perf] “GPU’s Will Need to be 40x More Powerful for Photo Realistic VR States”—NVIDIA.

[Perf] [News] [Browsers] [Talk] [Video] The performance power issue grows greater and greater as WebVR grows neared and neared. I was lucky enough to see Lin Clark give a wonderful, comic-based keynote about how Firefox Quantum works and can help us hit those new frames per second goals.

[Angular] [Tutorial] Looking to bring animations to your Angular project? Check out AnimationMovie!

[Podcast] [WAAPI] Check out the episode of The Web Platform Podcast where we talk Web Animations API!

[Tutorial] [WAAPI] Not ready for the Web Animations API? Make your own DIY Web Animations with Promises, rAF, and CSS Transitions.

[JS] [Library] [Perf] “A tiny library (and collection of adapters) for implementing FLIP transitions easily” by our very own David Khoursid!

[News] [Diversity and Inclusion] In more disappointing news, Pixar’s John Lasseter seems to be what we women like to call “handsy” with his coworkers, even having a grope-deflecting “move” named after him. Truly disappointed in the man who gave us classic quotes like my favorite: “The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.”

Tangentially related, Rashida Jones of Parks and Recreation fame bailed on writing Toy Story 4 for tangentially related reasons: "(It is) a culture where women and people of color do not have an equal creative voice, as is demonstrated by their director demographics: out of the 20 films in the company’s history, only one was co-directed by a woman and only one was directed by a person of color." (This explains why most Pixar movies are about dudes having midlife crises!)

Sometimes I wonder: do homogenous work groups breed unprofessional behavior, or does unprofessional behavior lead to a homogenous workforce? Probably both.

[Inspiration] Digging this animated music video that plays with switching between negative colors spaces.

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