The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of ayti for the last week №21 (September 1 - 7, 2012)

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

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Amazon is coming

The company, famous for its electronic readers, makes a good proposal to gain a foothold in the market of tablet computers. At this time, Amazon announced the release of new versions of the Kindle Fire tablet and Kindle readers with a convincing value.

3D continues to penetrate CSS

W3C is actively working on CSS3 specifications. Representatives from Adobe offered to standardize shaders, allowing you to create impressive 3D effects using CSS code. Now it will be called CSS Filter Effects.

Yandex was pleased with the gift for the new academic year and the opening of Yandex.Disk with additional 10 GB

With the “work on the bugs” service, everyone can quickly check their literacy level, and with Yandex.Disk, save all reports of learned words without worrying about their storage on local disks, complementing this with gigabytes of photos taken on vacation.

Nokia introduced two new Lumia

The Finnish company surprised sophisticated consumers with Lumia 920 and 820 devices, with support for wireless power transmission and an improved camera, providing the device with decent software, including Windows Phone 8 with City Lens augmented reality browser and integration with its own map services.

Google Chrome is four years old

The chronology of the development of one of the flagship browsers is presented in a special mini-project: Chrome Time Machine . Naturally, to view this demo, you must use Chrome!

Editor from Mr.Doob

Thanks to the development of browsers and specialized JS-library 3D gradually penetrates the web. Thanks to a special mini-editor, you can edit the code and immediately see the result drawn on canvas using three.js on the same page.

IE10 and HTML5 support accessibility

Before the upcoming release of Windows 8, you should pay attention to Internet Explorer 10, which is a product of the new generation. The lag of this browser from the rest, may remain in the past, given the number of supported standards that have been implemented over the past six months.

Development

• A huge collection, available on the Internet, books on programming in various languages, from the guru with StackOverflow
• Google has released the second version of the library with the implementation of the format WebP
• White House opened the code of mobile applications for Android and iOS
• State of Standards for Mobile Web Applications for August from W3C
• Twitter in the new API 1.1 version stops supporting RSS and imposes a restriction on the use of the service by third-party clients.
• Playback sound on the element by means of Web Audio API
• "A Front End Engineer's Manifesto" and some details about its creation
• Creating Ascii Animations with Sprite, Canvas, and JavaScript
• Improvements in HTML5 support in IE10 in terms of accessibility
• Presentation on the process of implementing adaptive designs from Zoe Gillenwater
• Selection of tools to support CSS3 / HTML5 in IE7-9

CSS

• Best CSS Dreams
• The selector of generalized related elements
• The truth about "CSS4"
• position: sticky in webkit
• Adobe's WebGL CSS shaders have taken the status of W3C drafts and are renamed CSS Filter Effects
• An example of the Webkit's CSS blur filter (see Chrome and Safari) and another example of creating a tilt-shift effect
• Using the pseudo-selector: target when creating multi-screen pages for mobile devices (Off-Screen Designs)
• iPhone Style Checkbox for Twitter Bootstrap
• Change the page skin switch to CSS3

Javascripts

• Official Mozilla javascript blog
• Another analysis of the nuances associated with the data types in JS
• jQuery - good, bad, angry
• Top five most popular downloaders
• tiltShift.js - jQuery plugin that uses CSS3 filters to create a tilt-shift effect . So far it works only in Webkit-browsers: Chrome and Safari 6
• Freetile.js - jQuery plugin that creates an adaptive tile from elements of different sizes, and differs from its counterparts (Masonry, vGrid, Wookmark) by the absence of the need to set the grid and some other features
• BigScreen is a library that uses browser-based possibilities to open images and video in full-screen mode using JavaScript Fullscreen API. It works in Chrome 15+, Firefox 10+, Safari 5.1+.
• Inquire.js - Media Query Callbacks
• Display an outdated browser notification using jReject
• ScrollToFixed - fix the panels correctly
• BookBlock - A CONTENT FLIP PLUGIN using CSS to implement page flipping

Browsers

• The new mobile browser for Android from the Chinese company Baidu overtook by points scored, performance test, Google Chrome, Firefox and Opera
• Start of beta testing of Firefox 16 and creation of aurora-branch Firefox 17
• Firefox 16 will work incremental garbage collector and command line
• Developer Panel Improvements in Developed Firefox 17
• Mozilla stops developing Firefox Home project
• Google Chrome is 4 years old. A special project from Google shows the main milestones in its development: from birth to the present day.

news

• A serious proposal - Amazon has released new high-tech tablets Fire and Kindle readers at crazy low prices.
• By the beginning of the school year, Yandex released the service "work on the bugs"
• In "Yandex.Disk" began to start up without an invitation and give 10 GB more
• Apple is preparing the world for the presentation of the iPhone 5 at an event scheduled for September 12
• Windows Phone 8 will get a feature called Rooms to communicate in virtual rooms
• Nokia has released a teaser for augmented reality service City Lens for WP8-smartphones
• Nokia presented a new line of its phones: Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 with wireless charging and Windows Phone 8 , Nokia Lumia 920: saving in the snow ; Motorola is also trying to keep up with the RAZR line "All day phone"
• Microsoft will provide an opportunity to return to Windows 7 and Vista for users who bought computers with Windows 8 Pro preinstalled after September 26th.
• Google refused to sell TV advertising
• comScore: Android’s share in the US increased to 52.2%
• Fresh figures from Google: 1.3 million Android activations per day, 480 million devices in the world

Demo

• Impressive interior Jean Cathedral implemented using WebGL
• The demo for the presentation of CCapture.js, which allows you to record sanvas-animation, makes it clear why you need WebGL

Services

• Word HTML cleaner - a service that puts in order the code generated in Word when exporting a document to a web page
• slingm.com - online 3D model viewer
• 3D analog jsFiddle - WebGL editor from Mr.Doob

Sites with interesting design and functionality

• wkamst.com - stands out for the relevance and organic nature of slide animation and the smoothness of loading data, in addition, having a responsive design
• axt.es is an adaptive portfolio site that makes the most of the available space on the page for displaying examples of work and easy navigation through the elements.
• cosentinoabbigliamento.com/it/ - a one-page site with a nice design and skillful use of CSS3 in the right doses
• vitosalvatore.com - tiled portfolio interface with responsive design and easy navigation, meeting with an unexpected effect
• parnas-konie.pl - horizontal auto-scrolling and parallax along with expressive design make the site memorable
• goosebumpspickles.com is an appetizing site with nice CSS3 animation and an interactive component for creating your own dish.

Design

• How to speak the language of Microsoft Metro design
• Top Five Talented Illustrators and Their Favorite Tools in Illustrator
• Often made mistakes when creating a design of mobile sites
• An example of effective use of Smart Object in Photoshop
• draft.im - a project that helps designers get an invite to the dribbble community
• How to provide superior design
• Skillful use of symmetry in web design
• The current status of the design of the module purchases in stores
• Brief history of the evolution of the logo Pirelli
• Fifty retro styled logos
• Depth in web design on examples of specific sites
• Creative business cards

A selection of free designer cookies

• Released Mesh Tormentor plugin for Illustrator CS6
• The first public version of the free OpenGostFont font family . These fonts are an open sale of fonts in accordance with GOST 2.304–81 "Drawing fonts"
• Stiff Staff - decorative minced font
• Sosa - 121 icons in one web font!
• PSD puff with power button
• Vector vintage badges
• A set of templates for creating responsive designs
• Concrete texture
• Icon sets from the depths of dribbble
• Brushes for Photoshop with the effect of spray-spray stains
• Fresh puffs of smartphones: HTC One Series, iPhone 4S, Nokia Lumia 900, Samsung Galaxy
• PSD puff with designer badge
• Calendar puff and metal slider

Entertaining

• Smashing Magazine celebrated its sixth anniversary and shared an interesting story about itself.
• The first Twitter wedding took place in Turkey
• According to Trademob, 40% of banner clicks in mobile applications occur by chance
• Funny 404th page
• Alphabetic cards for designers-geek-hipsters

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