It’s Tuesday which means that the Treehouse Show is back! In episode 76 of The Treehouse Show, Nick and Jason (@jseifer) talk about Gulp – the streaming JavaScript build system, Kinetic scrolling, and much more. They also take you on a whirlwind tour of Web Components which will be the Next Big Thing™ in front end web design and development.

This Week’s Links

• Getting started with gulp — Mark Goodyear — Front-end developer and designer

• ariya/kinetic

• Ifvisible.js by serkanyersen

• matthieua/jackInTheBox

• Avoiding anonymous JavaScript functions

• Your guide to the best Google web fonts | Whats the Closest Google Font?

• Yo Polymer – A Whirlwind Tour Of Web Component Tooling – HTML5Rocks Updates

• Bulletproof Accessible Icon Fonts | Filament Group, Inc., Boston, MA

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It’s that time of year again, when cupid draws back his bow, and florists quadruple their prices.

As St. Valentine’s day rapidly approaches, it’s time to start thinking about who your special someone might be. And whilst the rest of the population buys cards for loved ones, as designers we’re in the enviable position of being able to create our own messages of love.

So if you really want to win the heart of someone special this year, or perhaps send yourself a card that no one thinks is from your mom, you need this great free valentines vector set.

The vector file is designed by freepik.com, the search engine that helps designers locate bitmap and vector files for projects. Their bots crawl the web constantly looking for the best free files available to download, ranking them in the process. They’ve got tons of great resources, including even more Valentine’s clip art.

Packed with all kinds of vector graphics, from traditional love hearts to elegant ribbons, from a less conventional baseball shoe to illustrations of the fat little cherub himself; you’re sure to find something that will express just what you want to say.

You can download the file beneath the preview:

Who will you be sending a Valentine’s day card to this year? Will you be making it yourself? Let us know in the comments.

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The HTML Working Group has updated a Candidate Recommendation, published two Last Call Working Drafts, updated a Working Draft and a Working Group Note today:

• Updated Candidate Recommendation of HTML5. This specification defines the 5th major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web: the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). In this version, new features are introduced to help Web application authors, new elements are introduced based on research into prevailing authoring practices, and special attention has been given to defining clear conformance criteria for user agents in an effort to improve interoperability.
• Last Call Working Draft of Polyglot Markup: A robust profile of the HTML5 vocabulary. A document that uses polyglot markup is a document that is a stream of bytes that parses into identical document trees (with some exceptions, as noted in the Introduction) when processed either as HTML or when processed as XML. Polyglot markup that meets a well-defined set of constraints is interpreted as compatible, regardless of whether it is processed as HTML or as XHTML, per the HTML5 specification. Polyglot markup uses a specific DOCTYPE, namespace declarations, and a specific case—normally lower case but occasionally camel case—for element and attribute names. Polyglot markup uses lower case for certain attribute values. Further constraints include those on void elements, named entity references, and the use of scripts and style. Comments are welcome through 25 February 2014.
• Last Call Working Draft of W3C DOM4. DOM defines a platform-neutral model for events and document nodes. Comments are welcome through 4 March 2014.
• Updated Working Draft of HTML 5.1. This specification defines the 5th major version, first minor revision of the core language of the World Wide Web: the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). In this version, new features continue to be introduced to help Web application authors, new elements continue to be introduced based on research into prevailing authoring practices, and special attention continues to be given to defining clear conformance criteria for user agents in an effort to improve interoperability.
• Working Group Note of W3C HTML Ruby Markup Extensions. The ruby markup model currently described in the HTML specification is limited in its support for a number of features, notably jukugo and double-sided ruby, as well as inline ruby. This specification addresses these issues by introducing new elements and changing the ruby processing model. Specific care has been taken to ensure that authoring remains as simple as possible.

Learn more about the HTML Activity.