The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of ayti for the last week №15 (July 14 - 20, 2012)
We bring to your attention another collection with links to news, interesting materials and useful resources.
This week, for the last time, the latest release of the Firefox 14 web browser has taken place .
Arguments about why the new FF is no longer a cake can be read here ,
and in this article, the developers talk about the problems of memory consumption in FF add-ons and how it will be solved in Firefox 15 .
In addition, prepared the assembly of the mobile platform Firefox OS for testing on ordinary PCs ,
and the Firefox OS team asks for help from photographers .
Microsoft introduced the new Office 2013 package: meet the design in Metro style, integration with clouds, Skype and social services .
Here you can learn that Microsoft Office 2013 will not appear on a Mac .
and then get acquainted with a rather detailed preview .
Google enabled any Chrome user in real-time mode to take part in the experiments of the London Science Museum by launching the spectacular project chromeweblab - a new place to monitor modern technologies.
This material continues a series of monthly reviews of fresh articles on the topic of interfaces, new tools and collections of patterns, interesting cases and historical stories. Of the tapes of several hundred thematic subscriptions, approximately 5% of the worthwhile publications are selected that are interesting to share.
HTML5 is rapidly entering the web. For its small history, this set of standards has already managed to acquire a number of significant achievements and victories. Using infographics
We invite you to familiarize yourself with the History of HTML5 , as well as its Evolution: Past, Present and Future .
The first network devices based on 802.11ac are already on sale, and very soon every user will be asked whether to overpay for a new version of Wi-Fi? Answers to new technology questions can be found in this article .
3dfile.io - 3D files can now be uploaded to the server of the service and viewed directly in browsers with WebGL support, which really pleases, given the implementation without using browser plug-ins!
Link to the digest from last week.
Material prepared by dersmoll and alekskorovin
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 | Mozilla foundation |
Arguments about why the new FF is no longer a cake can be read here ,
and in this article, the developers talk about the problems of memory consumption in FF add-ons and how it will be solved in Firefox 15 .
In addition, prepared the assembly of the mobile platform Firefox OS for testing on ordinary PCs ,
and the Firefox OS team asks for help from photographers .
 | Microsoft Office 2013 |
Here you can learn that Microsoft Office 2013 will not appear on a Mac .
and then get acquainted with a rather detailed preview .
 | Google Web Lab |
 | Review of fresh materials for designers, April-June 2012 |
 | HTML5 |
We invite you to familiarize yourself with the History of HTML5 , as well as its Evolution: Past, Present and Future .
 | 802.11ac: what you need to know about the new standard Wi-Fi |
 | 3dfile.io |
Development
- Video recordings of reports from the WebCamp2012 conference
- Presentation from Tantek Çelik: HTML5 & microformats 2 the next evolutionary step for web data
- HTML5 main issues
- Encoding definition table
- Basics of responsive typography
- HTML5 Sortable - plugin on jQuery using the HTML5 drag and drop API.
- One of the new high-resolution mobile web techniques
- Mozilla's famous library for using HTML5 / CSS3 - Modernizr
- A prototype of an HTML5 simple audio editor by Rainer Heynke.
- New at Pepelbey.net: Difficult simple button
- Browse the coolest IDE or in search of the sacred and the best editor!
- codeavengers.com - a project in the form of a game offering to learn JavaScript
- Creating a WebGL-cube do-it-yourself
- Git Guide for Windows Users
CSS
- Frontend development with Sass and Compass (video)
- New mixing features in CSS
- Resurrect the “marquee” tag with CSS3 animation and make it more advanced
- Adobe continues to develop the theme of web overlays, showing new uses for them.
- Standards-Based CSS Parser by Tab Atkins Jr
- Curtains on CSS3 by CSS Ninja
- Meet MVCSS - a new SASS-based preprocessor
- On / Off FlipSwitch - a new generation switch with the skins of the main mobile axes on CSS3 (IE9 +)
- PPFixInput - stylization of text fields of forms
- How to make a photorealistic button on CSS3
- CSS3 family tree
- A promising CSS tutorial to get you into the world of cascading style sheets from scratch.
Javascripts
- JQuery custom content scroller updated
- Also, pretty serious update is Modernizr
- JavaScript JavaScript audio codecs MP3, Apple Lossless, FLAC and AAC available
- Roundabout - jQuery plugin for converting unstructured information into dynamic objects
- detectmobilebrowsers.com - a collection of scripts for various JS-libraries defining the user's mobile browser
- pdf.js - thanks to the work of Mozilla developers, we can now view PDF without any plugins!
Browsers
- The release of the Firefox 14 web browser and Thunderbird 14 email client , and here you can read why the new FF is no longer a cake
- A great note about the problems of memory consumption in FF add-ons and how it will be solved in Firefox 15
- A new version of the Firebug web application debugger 1.10.0 released is compatible with Firefox version 13.
- And a little more about the updated Firebug 1.10.0
- How to enable click-to-play in Firefox 14.01
- History of User-Agent identifiers for different browsers
- Another comparison of browsers from tomshardware
news
- Microsoft introduced the new Office 2013: Metro-style design, cloud integration and social services
- Microsoft Office 2013 will not appear on Mac
- Microsoft Office 2013: Preview
- Ukrainian IT market in 2012 will grow to 1.5 billion euros
- The once popular service Digg sold for $ 500 thousand ... or $ 16 million. How it was and why it happened.
- Vkontakte held its first international programming championship, initiated in Russia
- Microsoft apologized for the lack of a browser selection screen in Windows 7 SP 1
- Former Google top manager Marissa Mayer has been named CEO of Yahoo! . About who she is and why some don't believe in her
- Officially: we expect Windows 8 on October 26th
- Prepared to build the mobile platform Firefox OS for testing on ordinary PCs
- YouTube has blurred faces
- Google Russia welcomes Firefox with new default search
Services
- moqups.com - we build prototypes of sites online
- Generator .htaccess redirects
- code.jquery.com is the official repository of all versions of jQuery, including mobile, as well as UI
- 3dfile.io - 3D files can now be viewed directly in WebGL-enabled browsers!
- httparchive.org - a service that collects interesting statistics on data usage on the web, for example, the percentage of flash usage on sites, or the percentage of data (scripts, styles, images)
- Configurable Privacy Policy Generator
Demo
- 3D interactive video effect using dynamically loaded tweets
- Ninja Authoring Tool - advanced Chrome extension editor for creating HTML5 content including 3D!
- Google enabled any Chrome user in real-time mode to take part in the experiments of the London Science Museum by launching the spectacular project chromeweblab - a new place to observe modern technologies.
Design
- Review of fresh materials for designers, April-June 2012
- Ethan Marcott's Responsive Web Design
- The first logos of famous companies were often simply terrible!
- How not to quarrel with the typesetter, or 10 rules of good form in web-design
- LinkedIn confirmed the design change soon
- Fresh logos in retro style
- Web designs with great use of illustrations
- Successful design of Android applications
- The coolest solutions used in interactive components of UI touch devices!
- Examples of very stylish business cards
- A collection of infographics dedicated to the 2012 Olympic Games and some more
A selection of free designer cookies
- Just over a dozen fresh fonts - from Uralita to Dominik
- Amende font from the depths of Behance
- Three dozen brushes with doodles for Photoshop are offered for one tweet.
- Commercio - a small package of icons suitable for stores in four sizes (16-48px)
- Pyconic - a large set of four hundred icons, though in one size - 32px, as well as with the requirement to place a link to the website of the author
- iconmonstr offers six hundred minimalist monochrome icons in SVG and PNG formats
- minimal-patterns.com - a project offering a selection of minimalistic low-key textures
- Pyaterochka pavement textures
- Five dozen patterns for Illustrator
- Dark UI Kit (PSD) - a package of concise interface elements for designs in dark colors
- Another similar set but already asking: "to link back to this site"
Entertaining
- Internet special forces created in Tajikistan
- Wikipedia loses editors
- Skype will fix the mailing of messages to random users the other day , some details of the bug
- 802.11ac: what you need to know about the new standard Wi-Fi
- HTML5 history (infographics)
- HTML5 Evolution (infographics)
- Global SEO Market (Infographics)
- Attack on Steve Mann due to augmented reality glasses
- Top 10 passwords stolen from Yahoo!
- Steve Wozniak and his incredible backpack with gadgets worth $ 25 thousand.
- The most frequently pressed keys in various programming languages
- 29 days from Android, or Android vs iOS without holivars
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Link to the digest from last week.
Material prepared by dersmoll and alekskorovin
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