The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of ayti for the last week №14 (July 7 - 13, 2012)

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

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Runet’s protest against Law No. 89417-6

Despite the public protest of such resources as Russian Wikipedia , Bashorg , LJ , as well as Google and Yandex , the law was nevertheless passed (hot discussions in the comments included)

Firefox

Mozilla's browser continues to evolve. In the 15th version, we will be pleased with the new tools for developers , in the 16th browser will refuse a large number of css-prefixes and at about the same time popular social services will be integrated . You can also read about these and other innovations in this review article.

Non-standard design approaches

Modern web technologies allow layout designers to realize even the most daring ideas of creative designers. Someone focuses on the use of unusual for the web geometry , and someone launches his imagination and creates unusual and beautiful navigation elements

June W3C Web Standards Reports

Lea Verou has already written the second detailed report on the latest news from the W3C, where work has been boiling much more recently than it used to be. And if you suddenly missed the latest news on web standards, including the rejection of prefixes for animations and transformations in CSS, getting the status of recommendations for the Media Queries, the new vmax unit, and the like, then it's time to catch up after studying this article.

New era in CSS

With the advent of new browsers and the development of new standards, CSS is gradually ceasing to be a simple markup language. This can be seen by reading more about CSS Exclusions and the construction of geometric shapes using this technology , as well as the future standard CSS Regions . In addition, your attention is invited to the video with Google I / O 2012, where developers from Adobe and Google are considering the advanced use of CSS3 / HTML5 properties and new tools for working with them

Android 4.1 Jelly Bean

The latest version of Android promises to raise the bar of the quality of mobile OS to a new level and throw another challenge to everyone else. After her presentation on Google I / O, a fairly large number of Jelly Bean detailed reviews appeared, and we suggest reading some of them: one , two , three , four , as well as a detailed video review .

Old browsers hinder the development of the Internet

In a new article on smashingmagazine, this question is raised once again. The author reviewed the current state of affairs with the prevalence of browsers in the world, which technologies developers cannot use due to the current situation and how popular services are struggling with old browsers.