The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of ayti for the last week №18 (August 11 - 17, 2012)
We bring to your attention another collection with links to news, interesting materials and useful resources.
The creator of jQuery, John Resig, presents a new project to the world in Khan Academy - Khan Academy Computer Science . The newly developed platform provides an opportunity to learn the basics of programming, even to those who have never come across it before.
Since August 15, Adobe has removed the Flash player from Google Play, and this can be considered the official date of death of this technology on the Android platform.
Published draft version of W3C masks in CSS , Detailed introduction to three-dimensional CSS transformations
The new version of Windows is already on the way, and its interface has every chance of becoming trendy. To create sites in the style of Metro UI, this framework is intended. And here you can just see the preview of the Microsoft site in a new style.
Due to the rapid spread of devices with different screen sizes, the adaptive design continues to be in trend. At this link you can find infographics to help create responsive web design, here you can read about design for devices with portrait and horizontal orientation, and here Chris Coyier tells about adaptive sprites and the effectiveness of Media Queries.
Chris Coyier made a great selection of style sheet guides for GitHub, Google, Smashing Magazine, Wordpress and some others. All of them can serve as an excellent example for creating something similar on your project.
Most likely, you noticed that during the Olympics, the Google search home page displayed interactive thematic doodles / mini-games about one of the competitions held. And if someone still missed them, then it's time to get acquainted with this five doodles.
Link to the digest from last week.
Material prepared by dersmoll and alekskorovin
Hot seven
 | Learn Computer Science at KhanAcademy |
 | RIP Adobe Flash on Android |
 | New CSS features from near future |
 | Metro UI CSS - a framework for creating websites in the style of Windows 8 |
 | Adaptive design |
 | CSS Style Guides |
 | Olympic Doodles |
Development
- 12 interesting features of WebKit Inspector for Developers
- Chris Coyier: Responsive Sprites And Media Query Efficiency
- Let's play with HTML5 history API
- Great performance comparison of HTML5 Mobile Gaming
- Web icons for iPad Retina Display
- w3fools.com - W3Schools Opposition
- WordPress Theme Tutorials
- weddings.wordpress.com - a WordPress wedding website creation tool.
- HTML5 advertising poster, or 29 reasons why HTML5 will change websites for the better
CSS
- Metro UI CSS - a framework for creating websites in the style of Win8
- CSS Style Guides
- Published draft version of the W3C masks in CSS
- Detailed introduction to three-dimensional CSS transformations
- Mozilla explores the ability to add Webkit prefixes.
- createcss3 - online property generator
- normalize.css v1.0.0 - release of the first version of HTML5-ready alternatives for CSS resets
- Chris Coyer gridding method
- Simple CSS-animation on the theme of the Olympics
- Configuring Sass for Windows
- CSS3 3D top shift menu
- MacBook with one tag from Joshua Hibbert
- The evolution of page layout with CSS since 1990
Javascripts
- SEO and Javascript: what you can and cannot do
- jBar Plugin - plugin on jQuery to create a calltoaction menu
- jquery-flex - animation grid
- FileDrop - cross-browser drag & drop for uploading files (IE 6+)
- Smart Time Ago - display of the time that has passed since the update or publication, in human language
- Sketch.js lets you create a drawing board in HTML5 canvas
Browsers
news
- RIP Adobe Flash on Android
- Half of Magento’s tested online stores exposed to critical vulnerability
- jQuery is used on every second site
- Gmail has become the world leader in email services.
- Published records of the Summer School reports Windows 8
- Google will lower pirated content in search results
- Microsoft is already working on Windows 9 codenamed Blue
- Clear addresses of profiles have appeared on Google+, but only for favorites.
- Google has updated the multiple login feature
- Google bought Frommer's travel guides
- This year, Kim Dotcom will launch Megabox music service.
- Akamai: global peak internet access speed for the year increased by 25%
- Facebook gaming audience has reached 235 million users
- Free Wi-Fi for travelers appeared in Odessa
Services
Demo
Sites with interesting design and functionality
- bangersaustin.com - cute themed site
- 35mmdesign.com - vertical responsive website
- chartbeat.com - site with parallax effects and footer surprise
- makeup.heatherconlan.com - stylish website gallery with responsive design
- ze-studio.com - a website with a minimalist design, a portfolio slider, not without some adaptability
Design
- Brand Identity for BEM
- Designer advice: never use pure black
- Brand colors
- We make design for devices with portrait and horizontal orientation.
- Visual content as an “engine” of interest to brands in social networks
- Creating a Photorealistic Calculator Image in Illustrator
- Infographics to help create responsive web design
- What is the secret of a successful landing page?
- Five dozen logos, in the image of which trees were used , and a little less than the logo using images of funny characters
- Useful tips for creating standing logos
A selection of free designer cookies
- Citizen Slab - vintage serif font by Joel Felix
- Sreda - Fontfabric serif font
- Fine UI Kit - minimalist set in bright colors
- Packing of sea-themed vector buns
- Package with brushes for photoshop, which will help in creating light effects
- Two and a half dozen textures - from paper and wood to walls and floors
- A small list of iconic web fonts with a description of each of them.
- Packaging icon set from social media world
Entertaining
- Curiosity rover: an explanation of the choice of 2 megapixel cameras
- How we screwed the Apple community
- The most popular passwords in the 2012th
- Can the choice of font affect the belief in what is written to them?
- Interesting facts about iDevice
- Internet of things - and what is it?
- Entomologists discovered a new species of golden eyes through Flickr
- Google talked about posthumous benefits for employees
- Iran will abandon the Internet by 2013
- With the Noisy Typer application, Mac users can turn their computer into a typewriter
Funny
Link to the digest from last week.
Material prepared by dersmoll and alekskorovin
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