This Week in Web Tech #16 - #17

Every week we post links about web technology and design to our Twitter feed. Once a week, we roll those links up into a blog post we call This Week in Web Tech.

• Chrome Canary for Developers
• Placeholder Attribute Is Not A Label!
• Microsoft put out a free eBook on Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Inspiration for web development with Twitter Bootstrap
• Kort: A thumbnail preview concept.
• Slider toggles can be confusing. Here's one potential solution.
• Why good design and open design often conflict
• Being a web developer "is as awesome as Chewbacca riding a squirrel, fighting Nazis with a cross bow." @codepo8
• Writing Fast, Memory-Efficient JavaScript
• Two things about the iPad mini
• liffect: CSS3 effects for lists
• People like circles. Use 'em in your designs.
• WebRTC is now shipping in Chrome 23. No flags, no special build.
• 20 Awesome jQuery Plugins for Responsive Layout
• The usability experts were right: 5 changes Thumbtack made to increase conversion by 50%
• 5 More HTML5 APIs You Didn't Know Existed
• Watch Divshot co-founder @mbleigh talk about Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) at RubyConf 2012!
• Simple Methods For Writing Scalable CSS Right Now
• CSS-aware HTML Minifier for PhantomJS
• Mobile Design Typography is Vitally Important ... and Challenging
• Mobile Design Details: Hide/Show Passwords
• On HTML5 and the proposed main element | Ian Devlin
• FinancialTimes exec expounding the virtues of HTML5
• CSS Custom Filters
• HTML5 will change design – if we let it
• Using CSS Transitions in Responsive Web Design
• How to use Twitter Bootstrap to Create a Responsive Website Design (or just let Divshot do it for you)
• Wait, DevTools could do THAT?
• How to Detect DOM Changes in CSS