The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of ayti for the last week №11 (June 16 - 22, 2012)

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

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Windows Phone 8, MS Surface and other news from Microsoft

This week, the first ever Microsoft Windows Phone 8 Summit was held, where a new OS for smartphones was introduced. In addition, the software giant Redmond introduced a line of its own Surface tablets with a new OS . And while the experts discuss his prospects , the price and compare with competitors , the speakers during the presentation did not manage to avoid the traditional file that was caused (surprise, surprise) by the new Internet Explorer.

WordPress 3.4 release

The most popular content management system received its latest update , which, among other things, included a new advanced theme customizer in the admin area. This and other features can be found in a review article on this topic .

News from Chris oyier

Chris's appeal to the world , laid out last week, received his response, as a result of which he collected $ 25,000 in 24 hours on Kickstarter . In addition, Chris and his comrades launched a new sandbox for front-end codepen.io developers. All this can be read in the most recent interview on netmagazine.com

Powerful New CSS- and JavaScript Techniques

On the pages of coding.smashingmagazine.com there appeared a monumental article in which the author tried to collect interesting and useful CSS and JS techniques that have appeared lately. The selection is divided into categories and each item in it is provided with a screenshot and a short description.

SPDY Protocol - Internet Overhaul

The emergence of new protocols and the death of old has always accompanied the development of the Internet. The HTTP protocol is beginning to become a thing of the past with the advent of new developments, and one of those who can replace it in the future is SPDY. The article covers both the history of the issue and the development prospects.

Top 15 technologies that Apple declared war

The article reviews a list of fifteen devices and services that Apple deliberately refused from, announcing recent updates in their product lines at WWDC-2012.

The productive work of the guys from Mozilla

Mozilla development teams continue to work productively - they make Thimble online web-page editor , create a browser for the iPad based on the WebKit engine , and also do not forget about Firefox - in its 16 or 17 a command line for developers will appear .

Development

• Powerful New CSS- and JavaScript Techniques .
• Chris Coyer collected $ 25,000 in 24 hours on Kickstarter , as well as his interview on netmagazine.com about the redesign of CSS-Tricks and CodePen .
• What's new in Wordpress 3.4 .
• An overview of HTML-based presentation tools .
• A large selection of tools, services and resources for working with responsive designs .
• HTML Boilerplates, CSS and WordPress frameworks .
• About the future of HTML5 video .
• Periodic table 107 elements of HTML5 .
• How to add a Pin It button (Pinterest social network) to each post image in Wordpress .
• Ten of the most popular Wordpress plugins .

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CSS

• Double celebration from W3C: recommendation status for Media Queries ... and one more surprise!
• Generated using CSS content in elements not intended for such use .
• The next wonders of the webkit engine with the intersection of polygons .
• Adaptive one-page design with smooth CSS animation .
• 3D effects on image thumbnails .
• How CSS handles errors .
• How to make out e-books using CSS3 .

Javascripts

• NVD3 - A great open-source library for creating interactive graphs.
• pageguide.js - An interactive guide for web page elements using jQuery and CSS3.
• Nestable - jQuery plugin for creating an interactive hierarchical list.
• iealert - another script to warn about the old version of the browser.
• complexify - determine the coolness of your password using jQuery.
• refineslide is a powerful new content slider with cool effects.

Browsers

• Dolphin Browser acquires its own engine .
• Mozilla is working on creating a browser for Apple iPad based on the WebKit engine , Mozilla Junior: a minimalist web browser for the iPad and a more detailed overview of it .
• Flash 11.3 crash in Firefox - the official position of Mozilla.
• New Safari 6 and Mobile Safari for iOS 6 .
• Get 30% better site performance in IE10 with HTML5
• In Firefoxe 16 or 17, a command line for developers will appear .

Services

• HTML5 Template Generator .
• Generate a HTML5 Framework with SwitchToHTML5 .
• gradientfinder is an image converter with gradient fill to CSS3 code .

news

• Windows Phone 8 - OS presentation for smartphones .
• Microsoft introduced a line of its own Surface tablets with the new Windows OS , a comparison of MS Surface with its main competitors
• LG goes out of business tablets .
• The Mozilla project introduced the Thimble online web page editor .
• Web application store Mozilla Marketplace earned .
• The release of a web content management system WordPress 3.4 .
• Every fourth major site in the world uses Facebook widgets .
• Facebook acquires Face.com startup with face recognition technology , now many are wondering what will be the company's second acquisition - book.com or palm.com?
• Codecademy launched the Russian version .
• Skype will advertise during audio calls .
• Realities current not The popularity of Google+ in terms of analyzing accounts on social networks of pop diva Lady Gaga.
• Odnoklassniki claim that the network is used in 229 countries of the world .
• Nokia buys Scalado: the whole "street photo" goes to Finland . Quite spectacular developments could not dislike the Finnish company.
• The company from Redmond offers unlimited volume for its email service Hotmail .
• Named TOP-25 Ukrainian development companies in May .
• Technopark Bionic Hill has passed the design stage .

Demo

• Chris Koyer and his comrades launched a new sandbox for front-end codepen.io developers.
• Mozilla is taking a javascript flash player .
• Dom3D - rendering volume objects using CSS3 .
• Photon - JS-library for adding light in 3D space .
• X-Tag is a Mozilla project with the help of which development after connecting JS libraries you can create your own tags .

Design

• 6 free pdf books about typography .
• The Hinglish project makes Hindi more accessible to English-speaking people .
• Three dozen logos dedicated to football topics .
• Badge of the Olympic Games in a few pretty funny options .
• Logos built on the use of initials that were beaten in a different form .
• Web design in the style of a notebook .
• Identified flying objects recorded in different parts of the Earth in website designs .
• To help designers and developers of applications and websites on the iPad a large collection of templates, materials, applications and other information .
• The names of the fonts are structured in alphabetical order that can be used by professionals who design for iPhone / iPad .
• The most interesting lessons on Photoshop (including CS6) of the last month .

A selection of free designer cookies

• A package of UI elements called Sky .
• June collection of brushes for Photoshop .
• To help create a design site with an environmental theme of a small package of vector icons .
• Seven dozen "handwritten" fonts, not all of them are very beautiful, but just like not all handwriting is calligraphic .
• Ten highly detailed icons with PSD source dedicated to the educational field .
• More than a hundred source codes of vector icons for the web and not only .

Entertaining

• Linus Torvalds sharply criticized the attitude of the NVIDIA company to the Linux community .
• Protocol SPDY - overhaul of the Internet or hope and the reality
• A quarter of a century turned GIF format .
• Andreas Bovens demo pages and a description of preparing the site for the future and the present variety of permissions .
• Map of the most visited sites in the world .
• 15 technologies and services that Apple has found a replacement in the new line of their devices .
• Created a site to track changes in online articles .
• Modern Intro for StarTrack .
• Bobuk about new mail in Windows 8 .

Entertainment

• Generator flying pigs on HTML5 canvas .
• The coder's response to poor quality mokapy .
• The past and the future of mobile computers .

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