The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of ayti for the last week №8 (May 26 - June 1, 2012)

We bring to your attention another collection with links to news, interesting materials and useful resources.



At the working week coming to an end, the news came especially actively from Facebook.

Hot seven

Facebook is back to developing its own smartphone.

Currently, the rapidly growing audience of mobile device users is in the field of view of social network No. 1. In order to join the game for such an attractive market, Facebook plans to seriously engage in the production of phones under its own brand.

Rumors about a possible purchase of Opera by IT giants, and in particular, Facebook.

Every smartphone has a default browser. What path will Facebook choose for its smartphone - to write your own browser from scratch or to buy the ever-young Opera browser with its impressive percentages of popularity? Apparently they are puzzled over now in Zuckerberg's company.

Facebook shares fell to a record high

Facebook’s pompous IPO was accompanied by ambiguous facts . And the subsequent consecutive drop in the value of the company's shares, even caused the postponement of entering the securities market on VKontakte .

thedeepestsite.com - Borjomi presents the “deepest site in the world”

If you doubt the fact of depth, you can personally check both it and your endurance and patience.

The usability story from Smashing Magazine, from easy to hard or how it all began

The concept of usability over the course of history has changed and differed significantly from current developments and approaches. During the warfare of the last century, usability was mainly used to create perfect and convenient weapons, while now, for the most part, industrial designers and designers of various interfaces are engaged in this.

Online tools to test the speed of download sites

How fast your site loads, how well it is optimized, what can be improved and what should be discarded? - these questions can be answered by the results of analysis of several popular services.

A collection of tools that helps in the implementation of responsive design

Adaptive design is now quite a popular trend, which has already caused ambiguous opinions about its preference when using an alternative mobile version of the site . For the implementation of sites with this design requires ingenuity and a set of useful tools .
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Development

• Video + canvas = magic
• How to embed Retina display images in responsive design .
• HTML special characters + currency signs .
• The real and much more serious problem of implementing multiple versions of images for responsive design arises when using both the proposed <picture> tag and the @srcset attribute .
• A small collection of tools to help in the implementation of responsive design .
• Sources useful for web developers snippetov .
• Use polyClip.js to create cropped images from JPG images like PNGs with translucency .

CSS

• Learn more about the Clip property .
• Animated 3D diagram on CSS3 .
• The current slice of specs describing the CSS3 Flex Box property .
• An interesting suggestion from Chris Koyera about using faviconok before links to external sites.
• In CSS4 media queries, support for touchscreen devices will improve .
• News from the Adobe team offering to add standards for support for blending modes, as long as they exist only in Photoshop and JavaScript implementations using canvas, as well as compositing (various intersection modes).

Javascripts

• Superscrollorama - a new version of the well-known plug-in to create a variety of effects, tied to scrolling the page.
• jQuery Image Slider plugin .
• Responsive Tables is a useful plugin for cases when tables also need adaptability.
• Cover Flow - jQuery-plugin imitating the work of the 3D interface used in Apple products
• Chronoline.js - creating a horizontal time scale with a chronological display of events.

Services

• Mothereffinganimatedgif - generate an animated gif.
• c2c.briangonzalez.org - we convert the compass code into standard css.
• 8 online tools to test the speed of loading sites .
• Infogr.am's try this service and you will understand that creating an infographic has never been so easy!

Browsers

• Apple patent application: Safari 3D interface .

news

• Facebook is back to developing its own smartphone.
• Smashing Magazine refused the Like button for faster loading pages
• The most expensive brand in the world - Apple
• Rumors about a possible purchase of Opera by IT giants, and in particular, Facebook. As a result, Opera stock prices jumped sharply in price.
• Google now indexes and JavaScript!
• Microsoft backs out, it turns out Metro-version of IE may receive limited support for Adobe Flash
• Yandex filmed stadiums host games Euro 2012 in Ukraine
• No sooner had users become accustomed to the new look of their page, as Facebook is already testing the updated Timeline interface .
• According to rumors, another major purchase of a social giant is coming soon - Facebook is going to purchase Face.com face recognition service .
• Another marketer move - is Windows 8 loading too fast?
• The first screenshots of Apple’s map service that may be launched in the coming months.

Sites with interesting design and functionality

• thedeepestsite.com - Borjomi is the deepest site in the world.
• theamazingspidermangame - feel like a hoop on this site.
• www.k2.pl - full-screen rubber website with non-standard navigation.
• julienrenvoye.com is a site with smooth preloading of content and pages and non-standard navigation.
• kashoo.co.uk is a standard one-page site with non-standard navigation behavior.
• poncho8.com - find your trajectory on this site with a huge canvas-container.
• urbangap.com - site for those who missed Space Invaders.
• hmrservis.cz - non-standard site from all sides.
• evoenergy.co.uk - website infographics with dynamic objects.
• Sites drawn by hand .
• 360langstrasse.sf.tv/page - a site that allows you to find yourself right on a city street and visit the nearest establishments .

Design

• In Illustrator, you can use your FF Chartwell Font font from Travis Kochel to do some pretty cool graphics!
• The usability story from Smashing Magazine, from easy to hard or how it all began
• Short course on typography anatomy
• Colorful portfolio designs .
• Three dozen pixel illustrations made ... in Microsoft Excel! .
• About how to draw rounded corners correctly and why it should be done that way .
• Four dozen logos using four basic elements of the elements - earth, water, fire and air .
• Top ten best logos in Australia .
• Selection of ship logos .
• Wedding invitations with original design .

A selection of free designer cookies

• Layer PSD with a template for the main page of a web design company with HTML / CSS / JavaScript code .
• Dozens of puffed source templates for modern web design .
• Source PSD photo realistic wallpaper size of 5333 by 3000 pixels .
• A huge collection of 4250 textures .
• Euro 2012 has not yet begun, and designers are already releasing football icons for social services .
• Two dozen modern sans serif fonts - from Bedizen to Caviar Dreams .
• Almost two dozen concise fonts (Bebas Neue, St. Marie, Piximisa ...) .
• The sources of thirty business cards for every taste - with a QR code, translucent, with background textures and stains of paint .
• Four dozen packages with textures of materials, surfaces and even comics!

Entertaining

• St. Petersburg "ProMT" joined the fight with Google for the logo .
• Mini-experiment: The effect of tagging selections, relinking and anchor links to Google search .
• MTS launched “augmented reality” in Kiev, Lvov and Donetsk .
• The head of Microsoft has got an 80-inch tablet .
• In the Russian "screen out of the fog" have invested a million dollars .
• LG showed a super clear screen for mobile devices . For every inch of the display there are 440 pixels. For comparison, the screen of the smartphone Samsung Galaxy S III has a pixel density of 306, while the iPhone 4S has 326 pixels per inch. The screen size of the Samsung smartphone is 4.8 inches, and the iPhone - 3.5 inches.

Entertainment

• The best works created with the help of synthesizer Doodle from Google .
• The main problem with doodles .
• Bruce Lawson's new hit .
• An instructive story about how Pixar nearly lost Toy Story 2 due to a bad backup .

Link to the digest from last week.
Material prepared by dersmoll and alekskorovin