The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of ayti for the last week №20 (August 25 - 31, 2012)
We bring to your attention another collection with links to news, interesting materials and useful resources.
Domestic developers can be calm - now the flagship of the Runet search will be involved in making decisions on web standards, along with the giants of the web industry: Microsoft, Google, Adobe, Mozilla, Opera.
Mobile devices are relatively simple for users. However, for developers and designers, working with them is associated with frequent solutions to fairly non-trivial tasks. They have to be solved using new approaches in the implementation of interactivity.
New version of the starter package for front-end development released! Together with it there was a pleasant redesign of the project.
Lawyers for the company from Cupertino decided the trial in their favor. Now, the South Korean company will have to pay a fantastic amount for too much similarity of design solutions proposed in the line of their products, coming out after Apple's innovative proposals.
New browser from Mozilla with new features: here and a silent update in the background, and support for SPDY v3, and a JavaScript debugger, and an update of the inspector, bugfixes, and much more, and of course, it has become a traditional matter - optimizing memory usage. Meanwhile, the integration of the PDF viewer based on pdf.js was postponed until the next release.
Leading web design studios inspire the entire web development sector with their work, as a rule having the most progressive and creative portfolio sites. The charge of creativity pushes to see the work of the studios, not only clients, but also many specialists from the web world.
Automated background parallax creation is fantastic? No, this is a reality made possible by the efforts of developers from web-features.net.
Link to the digest from last week.
Material prepared by dersmoll and alekskorovin
Hot seven
 | Yandex joined the W3C |
 | Integrated navigation patterns for responsive design |
 | HTML5 ★ Boilerplate 4.0 release |
 | Apple has won a lawsuit with Samsung and will receive $ 1 billion |
 | Firefox 15 release |
 | The best foreign web design studios and their creative sites |
 | Parallax Background Builder |
Development
- Graphics Optimization for Retina Screens
- A video tutorial on using symbols in Adobe Edge has appeared on gotoandlearn.com.
- HTML5 ★ Boilerplate 4.0
- Dive into adaptive layout with Foundation
- Pepelsbey Trendy Switch
- LiveEdit - plugin for PhpStorm with instant preview of HTML / CSS editing results.
- Capture video from a webcam using HTML5 and apply CSS3 filters to it
- HTML5 Adaptive Video
- Dynamic fields for editing photo information, in Flickr style, implemented using jQuery and CSS3
- Google search results , or microformats detail
- HTML5 game engines and frameworks
- Responsive design to place meaningful elements in the visible area of the browser by Chris Coyier
CSS
- Latest W3C drafts on native HTML responsive images
- Advanced use of text-shadow
- New options for repeating the background image in CSS3
- CSS Formatting Guide
- How to create an interactive graphic using CSS3 and jQuery
- Swinging cat photo for beginners learning CSS3 animations
- Choice :: nth-everything by Chris Coyier
- Lists of radio buttons placed vertically and horizontally, with effective switching!
Javascripts
- Gridster jQuery plugin creates a grid and supports dragging elements inside it
- 6 jQuery plugins for styling a load field input type = file
- oriDomi - fold the DOM like a piece of paper
- jquery.simpleWeather - create a weather widget using jQuery
- jq-idealforms - plugin for creating ideal forms
- Responsive Carousel Project: made open source
- Piecon - radial chart with load percentage instead of favicon!
- What most concerns the modern JS-developer
- JavaScript: Types - about data types in JS from Dmitry Baranovsky in Adobe blogs
- Vanilla JS - fast, easy, cross-platform framework
- SVGeezy is a micro JS-plugin that finds SVG files on the page and “searches” their PNG counterparts for browsers without SVG support
Browsers
- The release of the web browser Firefox 15 , a description of the changes and new products , as well as the unfading news about all the less memory consumption
- And again: First look at Firefox 15: memory leaks are finally defeated
- Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) vs. Firefox 15, 14 vs. Google Chrome 23 vs. Opera 12.5
- Upcoming Firefox for Windows 8 Mockups
- Paul Irish's Favorite Pony Browsers
news
- Yandex joined the W3C
- Windows Phone overtakes BlackBerry
- Apple won a trial with Samsung , " Good work, Apple, you deceived the whole world, " the South Korean court forbade the sale of Apple devices and Samsung
- Facebook servers process 500 TB of data daily.
- Google added the ability to use uniform search settings for various devices.
- SkyDrive for Android is available
- Office web applications have received touch support, including gestures
Services
Demo
- BananaBread - 3D shooter on JS and WebGL
- Generative Machines - 3D Generator by Google Data Arts Team
- HTML5 Doodle Jump Game
- HTML5 video with alpha translucency
Sites with interesting design and functionality
- 2012.fromthefront.it is a great site for a front-end conference
- kd.co.ir - cute horizontal site
- spokespedicabs.com - an illustrated site with parallaxes
- familyaffair.it - original approach to portfolio design
- addo.it - non-standard portfolio site
- narrowdesign.com - portfolio with custom navigation and nice animation
- mapbox.com - site with responsive tile design and nice animation.
- legendary.com - designed for wide screens, with elements of adaptability and low-key animation
- mountaindew.com - parallax, cool hover effects, smooth loading and animation
- tcm.com/summer/ - excellent presentation of information about the actors: non-standard sliders, single-page, thoughtful data loading, easy navigation, an interesting way to use parallax
Design
- The best foreign web design studios and their creative sites
- Apple Metro-style Firefox, Twitter and Google logos
- 10 lessons and solutions for adaptive navigation
- The evolution of Facebook design in compressed form
- Optimize your work environment in Fireworks
- Integrated navigation patterns for responsive design
- Rich and brilliant view header in photoshop
- Creating a spectacular web design for users
- 11 principles of good design from Wells Riley and his netmagazine interview
- The realities of the UX design creation process
- A collection of sites with the active use of background textures.
- Three dozen examples of colorful web designs
- Super photorealistic icons for iOS
- Micro-redesign for New York City taxi drivers logo
- Logo using pieces of nature views
A selection of free designer cookies
- A few grunge paper textures
- High-quality brushes for the effect of bokeh for tweet!
- The best sources with source code UI Kits
- Ten sets of brushes to create photo-realistic effects in Photoshop
- E-commerce icon pack
- A family of user icons with special versions for Windows, iOS, Android , offered for subscription on the site
- PSD puff with badges
- Source UI music player in dark colors
- Puff PSD with Apple Macbook Air 13 '' is offered for registration in the portal premiumpixels.com
- Cyrillic Casper Sans Serif Font by Michael Chereda
- Decorative font Znikomit№25
Entertaining
- Android phones will form the basis of two NASA satellites
- Welcome to the big world of resolutions and screens, or as different devices are now used by consumers
- Curiosity already "reads" rap on Mars
- Windows 8 reports to Microsoft about all user-installed programs.
- Ukrainian developer created an analogue of Siri voice assistant for iPhone in Russian
- Research: the number of Android and iOS users is 10 times more than the PC in the mid-80s as well: China is the fastest growing market for iOS and Android devices, Chile is in second place
- The Swede launched a social network for the "best people" of the Internet
- In September, Samsung will launch two devices with transparent displays on the market.
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Link to the digest from last week.
Material prepared by dersmoll and alekskorovin
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