The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of ayti for the last week №26 (October 6 - 12, 2012)

We offer to your attention another selection with links to news, interesting materials and useful resources.

Hot seven

W3C, Adobe, Facebook, Google, HP, MS, Mozilla and Opera have announced a joint project WebPlatform.org

The developers of the largest Internet companies decided to combine their efforts . The result of this alliance should be the emergence of the most complete information base on web technologies and standards supported by browsers.

Flexbox

A description of the new flexbox model in the W3C worked for more than one month, until finally a draft was created that explicitly defines the specification . So, let's get acquainted with the basics of the flexbox model and recall the difference between the “old” and “new” specs.

Manymo - emulators of Android devices

Meet Manymo - the emulator of devices on Android. This web service today offers 42 emulators with different resolutions, android versions and screen sizes.

JQuery UI 1.9.0 Premiere

The new version of jQuery UI will please developers with new widgets: Menu, Spinner, Tooltip. In addition, positive changes have affected the API, and the availability of many widgets has improved.

Google News: Story on your screen and the release of the most ambitious Street View update.

The study of history becomes more fascinating when a world-renowned company that produces a special educational project takes up the task . In addition, the company is pleased with the next update of Google Maps, which makes more and more accessible many corners of unfamiliar cities and their surroundings.

Contre Jour ported to HTML5

The amazing game Contre Jour is ported to a version that is available on almost all modern desktop and mobile browsers with HTML5 support. Be careful, this is another time killer !

Firefox

This week there was a planned release of the 16th version of Firefox , but soon this build was removed from the download site due to an error in the browser . However, all this did not prevent Mozilla to submit a version of Firefox Metro, designed to work in Windows 8

Development

• Improving the performance of HTML5 Canvas
• Jpg, transparency, canvas, animation
• We try Brackets - a new code editor from Adobe
• Meta tag Viewport for non-adaptive designs
• Stop using the viewport meta tag if you don’t know how it works.
• Create a cool website with scroll effects.
• Thoughts that you should not use automatic sliders and carousels
• Don't forget about favicons on Retina Screens
• Using data- * attributes in javascript and css
• New attachments in Yandex.Mail
• HTML5 Page Flip - turning effect
• Top 10 Reasons to Use HTML5
• Raw WebGL 101 - Part 1: getting started
• Features of uploading files to HTML5
• Todo List App Powered By WordPress
• DOM methods that you may not have known
• Specificity Calculator - calculating the priority of selectors in CSS

CSS

• Site for those who do not know how to work: nth-child
• And once again about pseudo-elements
• CSS3 Regions and Flow
• “Old” and “New” Flexbox
• CSS internal shadows
• Flexbox - fast track to layout nirvana?
• Multiple Columns Layout (magazine style) using CSS3
• box-shadow vs filter: drop-shadow
• Battle LESS Mixin Libraries: LESS Elements vs. LESS Hat vs. Bootstrap
• Background-position: fixed and scroll trick
• Podcast "SassCast", where we interview Chris Koyera on SASS

Javascripts

• JQuery UI 1.9.0 Premiere
• Optimizing JavaScript performance for V8
• Windy - jQuery plugin with a cool dynamic effect
• Designing Better JavaScript APIs
• Categorizing values ​​in javascript
• Allofthelights.js - jQuery plugin to turn off the light and enjoy your videos
• Getting ready to connect different versions of jQuery
• The State of JavaScript Brendan Eich / Strange Loop 2012
• slideControl.js - range slider on jQuery
• Up to version 5 updated flowplayer

Browsers

• The release of Firefox 16 , the build of which Mozilla removed from the download site due to an error in the browser
• Mozilla project introduced the browser Firefox Metro, designed to work in Windows 8
• Accessibility features in Firefox on Android
• Game console browsers - and you check your sites in console browsers?
• New Opera Mobile 12.1 and Opera 12.10 beta (Flexbox!)
• The most useful bookmarklets for your browser
• In less than two weeks, the Yandex browser downloaded 1 million users

news

• W3C, Adobe, Facebook, Google, HP, MS, Mozilla and Opera have announced a joint project WebPlatform.org
• Vkontakte learned how to apply filters on photos without buying Instagram
• Twitter plans to launch its own video hosting
• Microsoft changes strategy and focuses on manufacturing devices and services.
• Another way to kill Microsoft flash
• Google News: Story on your screen
• Google has released the most ambitious update Street View
• Beautiful Ukrainian game Contre Jour ported to HTML5
• Facebook has introduced two types of new "likes"
• Google has released the first stable release of the apache module mod_pagespeed
• 65 changes in Google search (August, September 2012)
• Skype team promised to solve the problem with the new Trojan
• The site where an interactive map of electoral irregularities is created has been launched in Oanete

Design

• Alphabet: Re: Production - modern experiments with typography
• Typography styles: we divide fonts into categories
• Three critical design errors, worth tens of thousands of dollars
• Two and a half dozen of fresh vintage and retro sites
• Creative logo with hidden symbolism, including the brain
• How to add magic to the design using Photoshop - a set of lessons on the implementation of various effects
• Working with guides in Photoshop, part 2

A selection of free designer cookies

• Sources of world maps in various formats (PSD, AI, EPS, SVG)
• Google Maps UI Controls
• Package with a set of blue UI elements
• Nice abstract textures , and some more textures of paper, wood, earth ...
• Candy UI Icon Set - a package of icons made in children's colors
• Clouds-and-white icons ...
• Set of cinematic icons in PNG, PSD and JPG formats
• Six dozen fonts, from Florence to Orbitron
• Fashionable COCO font family
• Moby - a new decorative font

Entertaining

• Electronic literature for web designers and web developers
• IE fair advertising
• “Path designer” by Maxim Usachev
• Innovations in the "leaked" version of Google Play
• Have you ever wondered how monsters of the web are monetized?
• 47 facts and figures about Facebook in 2012
• How to host your site on Dropbox
• In the UK, began to develop a standard mobile communications 5G
• Unobvious Facebook Logic
• Original Channels will add 60 entertainment channels to the YouTube project.
• Apple's Tribute To Steve Jobs, Yo-Yo Ma, And The Prelude From Bach
• Google patented augmented reality watch

Link to the digest from last week.
Material prepared by dersmoll and alekskorovin