Seemingly harmless choices in visualization, design, and content selection can distort your data and lead to false conclusions. Aneesh Karve presents a framework for identifying and overcoming these distortions by drawing upon research in human perception, focus and context, and mobile design.

The new HTTP/2 protocol is mostly focused on web performance, but what kind of performance improvement can you expect by switching to HTTP/2? Ragnar Lnn explains the key improvements within HTTP/2 and demos a new application developers can use to see how their applications will function on the new protocol.

Typography pervades most facets of our modern lives. We can learn a lot from typography's rich, colorful history as well as from the modern trends that affect every aspect of the design and development of digital products. Jonathan Beebe demonstrates the most effective uses of typography to influence users and explores the current set of problems designers must grapple with.

Web and mobile apps shouldn't stop working when there's no network connection. PouchDB is an open source syncing JavaScript database that runs within a web browser. Offline-first apps built using PouchDB can provide a better, faster user experienceboth on- and offline. Bradley Holt demonstrates how to use PouchDB and CouchDB to build offline-enabled web and mobile apps.

Web apps have long been considered underpowered compared to native mobile apps, but what's really at the root of this perception? Alex Russell describes a new way to build that combines emerging browser features into something that just might answer the question.

Oliver Friedmann introduces Ziggeo's open source framework for video recording and playback, which features responsive HTML5-enabled components with Flash fallbacks for older browsers. It is customizable and extendable via the components' state machines and their dynamic templating system and works across all platforms, including mobile browsers.

Web apps are complex and comprised of many technologies. It can be difficult to simultaneously scale large server and client codebases. Scala is an expressive, performant language that can now run in your browser as well as on the JVM. Paul Draper explains how Scala's presence on the two most ubiquitous runtimes greatly assists web developers.

The Internet's security depends on cryptography. People use "secure" websites to take advantage of current cryptography methods. But what if users can't (or don't want to) trust the web server with their secrets? Web-page authors can use the Web Cryptography API to give their users end-to-end secrecy and authentication through web servers, not just to them. Charles and Laurie will show you how.

Tony Parisi explores the latest developments in web graphics using WebGL 2. Tony covers the new version of the 3D standard, as well as related technologies such as glTF for 3D data transmission and WebVR for web-based virtual reality.