The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of ayti for the last week №29 (October 27 - November 2, 2012)
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Google officially announced the new Nexus and introduced Android 4.2 .
In more detail with each of the devices can be found on their pages .
Here you can read more about Android 4.2 Jelly Bean - the new version of Android, and
here - about the circular panoramas that can be done in it.
There is news about Gmail: besides the fact that Google Mail has become the most popular in the world according to comScore ,
updated web-interface writing letters .
A few days after the presentation of Windows 8, Microsoft showed the world Windows Phone 8. About how it was, you can read in the text and watch the video .
Also, a Russian presentation of the HTC Windows Phone 8X and 8S ( text ), ( video ) was held.
You can read more about Windows Phone 8 here . And finally, positive news for MS fans: Steve Ballmer claimed that they sold 4 million Windows 8 in four days.
How does the W3C work, and what does Yandex do there? Interview with Charles McKathy Nevil
A fresh interview with Paul Irish , a frontend developer who is directly involved in Google Chrome development, includes the jQuery Team and deals with Modernizr, HTML5 Boilerplate, HTML5 Rocks and more.
An interesting article on the mobile-review about the tablet market and the business strategy of Apple, Google and Microsoft .
In addition, here and here you can read a review of the Microsoft Surface tablet with Windows RT,
And here to look at the first results of synthetic tests iPad 4 .
Bootstrap vs. Foundation vs. Skeleton - which one is the best for your future project? In addition, we draw your attention to the fact that Bootstrap has been updated to version 2.2.0
Presentation of Vadim Makeev "Clear and sharp" on the topic of creating sites for devices with high-resolution screens: video , report slides
Despite the fact that SVG technology is quite old, it could never be called popular. However, she is now experiencing her rebirth. For those who have not previously been familiar with SVG, it's time to replenish your knowledge. This will help the following articles:
Introduction to SVG graphics and SVG text basics
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Link to the digest from last week.
Material prepared by dersmoll and alekskorovin
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 | Google News |
In more detail with each of the devices can be found on their pages .
Here you can read more about Android 4.2 Jelly Bean - the new version of Android, and
here - about the circular panoramas that can be done in it.
There is news about Gmail: besides the fact that Google Mail has become the most popular in the world according to comScore ,
updated web-interface writing letters .
 | Microsoft News |
Also, a Russian presentation of the HTC Windows Phone 8X and 8S ( text ), ( video ) was held.
You can read more about Windows Phone 8 here . And finally, positive news for MS fans: Steve Ballmer claimed that they sold 4 million Windows 8 in four days.
 | Interesting interviews of the week |
A fresh interview with Paul Irish , a frontend developer who is directly involved in Google Chrome development, includes the jQuery Team and deals with Modernizr, HTML5 Boilerplate, HTML5 Rocks and more.
 | Talk about tablets |
In addition, here and here you can read a review of the Microsoft Surface tablet with Windows RT,
And here to look at the first results of synthetic tests iPad 4 .
 | Comparison of popular responsive CSS frameworks |
 | Clearly and sharply |
 | Svg |
Introduction to SVG graphics and SVG text basics
Development
- Presentation of Vadim Makeev "Clear and sharp" on the topic of creating sites for devices with high-resolution screens: video , report slides
- Bootstrap 2.2.0 released
- Cooking Sublime Text 2 for front-end
- Making a magnifying glass effect with CSS3 and jQuery
- Beautiful animated CSS3 and jQuery progress bars
- Chris Coyier shows how you can use the ‹progress› tag to display progress filling a form
- Working with text in SVG, basics
- Introduction to SVG graphics
- We lose HTML5 audio in the browser
- Breaking Myths About HTML5
- Adaptive navigation: optimization for touch devices
- An interesting approach to compressing images from the Filament Group
- Introducing Flip Ahead functionality in IE10 and Opera
- Updated Emmet demo (zen coding)
- Outdated Code Review system from Opera
- Chrome Canary for developers
CSS
- Details about the CSS selector NOT
- Fresh drafts of Filter Effects 1.0 standard
- Bootstrap vs. Foundation vs. Skeleton - comparison of popular responsive CSS frameworks
- Fuel UX - Twitter controls Bootstrap
- Custom design for pure CSS form elements
- Typography Animated by CSS3
- CSS3 Good Afternoon Clock
- Chris Coyier updated article on the most commonly used tricks in WordPress
- Gallery of stylized images drawn with CSS
- Once again about the great features of CSS3 Box Shadows
- Simple interactive CSS 3D cube
- Ready header styles using CSS
Javascripts
- Sly is a great jQuery plugin with a large number of settings for content scrolling
- jslibraryboilerplate - jQuery, Zepto, Prototype, etc.
- ddSlick - nice dropdowns with images on jQuery
- jQuery forms snippets
- jSlideRelatedPages - show an animated block while scrolling a page
- jq-tiles - carousel with customizable mosaic effects
- Attractive experimental JavaScript plugins
- BEM and JavaScript: Why did we write a JS framework?
Browsers
- Browser wars: IE9 captures 20% of the market, Firefox fell below 20%, and Chrome loses users for a second month
- IE10 - Security Champion
- Due to Microsoft’s violation of the European Commission’s requirements, the Firefox project did not receive 6–9 million downloads
- New social API integrates Facebook directly into Firefox
news
- Google News:
- Google presentation. Nexus 4, Nexus 10, Android 4.2 and Nexus 7 with 32 GB of memory.
- Official pages of the new Nexus.
- Circular panoramas on Android: add your own images directly to Google Maps
- Gmail: write letters in a new way
- Gmail has become the most popular email service in the world - comScore
- Android took 75% of the smartphone market
- Android 4.2 Jelly Bean - turn on the "Wishlist"
- Google will issue plastic cards
- Microsoft news:
- Steve Ballmer: we sold 4 million windows 8 in four days
- Presentation of Windows Phone 8 in the text and video
- Windows Phone 8: what's interesting?
- Russian presentation of HTC Windows Phone 8X and 8S in text and video
- Nokia is no longer among the Top 5 smartphone manufacturers
- Mail.Ru will use the My.com brand for overseas expansion.
- Thanks to Nexus 7 and transforming tablets, ASUS net income grew by 43%
- ASUS plans to deliver 10 million tablets next year, becoming the second after Apple
- New in Yandex search: match results and exact time in tips
- PrivatBank Launched Privat24 Application for Windows Phone 8 Platform
- Top 50 Websites - the most visited sites in September
Services
- instantsprite - sprite generator online
- wireframe - download super simple wireframes for websites and mobile apps.
Demo
- InfiniteGangnamStyle - GangnamStyle got to the frontend - raphael, sprite animation and all that (webkit only)
- theywilleatyou is a zombie game that uses web technologies that have no flash.
- Microscopix - WebGl demo winning the TRSAC 2012 demo contest
- Concept preview images from Hakim
- Happy & Spooky Halloween
- 3D toaster
- To help molecule chemists in 3D
Sites with interesting design and functionality
- onesmalltweet.com - beautiful space site
- creative9.com - another creative space site
- www.evanshalshaw.com/bondcars - all Bond machines in an animated presentation
- lesingefume.com - a conceptual french site with a smoking monkey
- divabymakole.at - Diva brand website with a twist
- goodtwin.co - a site with parallaxes, animated components and a nice design.
- site with a completely non-standard navigation
- site.whyblack.pl/en/ - an adaptive portfolio site of a Polish studio, despite its laconic design, has interesting effects
- statek-psychologia.pl is another Polish site with interesting 2D and 3D effects.
- gence-mute.fr is another portfolio site, this time a French company, featuring a full-screen background image change and using galleries inside galleries
- cygnismedia.com is a pretty lively site with well-designed simple but effective animations and non-standard galleries and sliders.
- thegraphicalweb.com - Adobe's demo web site.
Design
- An interesting article from the Mozilla command, which allows you to plunge into their workflow on the example of creating functionality "save for later"
- Font history: typography in heavy industry
- A film about the history of design. Part 1
- hoverstat.es - a project dedicated to the review of examples of approaches to interactive design
- Famous Halloween Logos Zombie Apocalypse Style
- Non-standard business cards
- 3D business cards
- Four dozen lessons on Fireworks
- Become an agnostic device
A selection of free designer cookies
- Five grunge floral textures
- Dozens of high quality colored paper textures at 4200x6000px
- A whole set of packages with seamless textures for Photoshop and Illustrator
- Four dozen UI packages for smartphones (iPhone, Android and some others) in PSD format, as well as printed versions of blank sketches
- A dozen brushes for photoshop to prepare for Halloween
- cutandslice.me - free Photoshop plugin for easy export of layers
- Icons for touch gestures in PSD, EPS and PNG formats
- Ligature Symbols - icon web font
- Doux Font by Dmitry Savin
Entertaining
- How does the W3C work, and what does Yandex do there? Interview with Charles McKathy Nevil
- Fresh interview with Paul Irish
- Mozilla gave the cake to Microsoft
- A fun tile-music experiment from Microsoft on the streets of Oslo
- The status of porting webOS to various devices
- The first results of synthetic tests iPad 4
- Tablet market Apple, Google and Microsoft's business strategy - who will win?
- Two reviews of Microsoft Surface with Windows RT: one and two
- Detailed review of iPod Touch 5 Gen
- Multitouch technology
- So Real it's Scary - a video about how LG scares people with its monitors
- Halloween Pumpkin Tetris
- Make any site scary (in Halloween style)
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Link to the digest from last week.
Material prepared by dersmoll and alekskorovin
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