The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of ayti for the last week №32 (November 17 - 23, 2012)
In spite of everything , we bring to your attention another selection with links to news, interesting materials and useful resources.
Google asks to vote against censorship and restrictions on the Internet
Meet Ingress - a new game from Google, the scene of which is an alternative reality. Here you can read a small review of it . Microsoft is not far behind in terms of alternative reality - Microsoft Research laboratory held an open day , where journalists managed to look into the future of three-dimensional technologies in terms of how humans interact with computers
The ideas of Nokia, based on Maemo and MeeGo, were continued in the development of the Finnish startup Jolla, which officially introduced OS SailFish . A little more detail about the new OS can be read here.
As usual, the schedule released the release of Firefox 17 and Firefox 17 ESR . A little earlier, there was a release for the Android platform . On Android, FF is doing well in principle , but what’s bad with it is the development of the 64bit version
Your attention is invited to a selection of videos , with which you can improve your skills in developing tools for developers in Google Chrome, which can directly increase development productivity.
After the official start of sales of new Windows on the Internet, information noise about it does not subside. For example, usability guru Jacob Nielsen believes that Windows 8 is inconvenient for everyone . Someone discovered a loophole that allows you to get a new OS for free.
Perhaps this was done on purpose, because people are not particularly eager to buy a new computer with Windows 8 . By the way, they say that in Win 9 the old Start menu may return . And finally, here is an interesting video, which tells about the history of the creation of Windows 8
Everyone knows that using CSS sprites on the site allows you to improve the performance of the site and correctly organize the interface elements. We offer you a small tutorial with a set of techniques and tools that will help you with the preparation and processing of sprites on your future or current project
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Link to the digest from last week.
Material prepared by dersmoll and alekskorovin
Hot seven
 | In a free world without borders, the Internet should be accessible. |
 | Augmented Reality |
 | Jolla SailFish |
 | Firefox 17 |
 | Chrome Developer Tools |
 | Windows 8 |
Perhaps this was done on purpose, because people are not particularly eager to buy a new computer with Windows 8 . By the way, they say that in Win 9 the old Start menu may return . And finally, here is an interesting video, which tells about the history of the creation of Windows 8
 | CSS sprites: basic techniques and useful tools |
Development
- Build relationships between CSS and JavaScript
- Expansion of the standard class Bootstrap Modal
- Insert SVG for Retina with PNG fallback for browsers that do not support vector image format.
- Making custom HTML5 form validation
- Presentation by Ilya Grigorik: Creating fast websites (Building Faster Websites - crash course on web performance)
- New field types have been added to Chrome Canary : input [type = month] and input [type = week]
- Adapt WebKit-optimized sites to Internet Explorer 10
- The nuances of web development using Chrome Developer Tools
- Combining CSS animations and JavaScript
- Configure Amazon S3 for Cross Origin Resourse Sharing to Host a Web Font
- Chris Koeer's Adaptive Menu Concepts
- HTML5 Browser support Geolocation browsers
- Physical Device & Viewport Sizes - detect new devices on the web
- Using the PageVisibility API
- mailto - not an easy link to email address
- Why are WOFF fonts freeze in Firefox?
CSS
- Adaptive timeline with 3D effect
- Adaptive background images with fixed or rubber proportions
- Realistic drop-down menu with 3D effect
- Electronic clock with effects
- IE10 CSS Hacks
- The DOM value "window.devicePixelRatio" and the CSS property "device-pixel-ratio" will become variable values
- Star Wars vs. Spaceballs - Adaptive CSS timeline with 3D effect
- Should I use inline-block as a replacement for float?
- Some principles to improve your CSS
- mask watch - an interesting implementation of watches using masks
- CSS sprites : basic techniques and useful tools
- CSS Transitions
Javascripts
- Adaptive tambneil grid with Pile grouping effect with built-in navigation and gallery
- Presentz - a library for syncing videos and slides.
- Long Press - the library, giving the opportunity to choose an alternative non-standard character when typing
- JavaScript pitfalls
- SpectagramJS - a simple jQuery plugin for the Instagram API
- New jQuery adaptive gallery plugin with automatic grouping
- dynatree - jquery plugin for creating a dynamic tree
- List of jQuery PDF Viewers that are relevant at the moment
Browsers
- Firefox 17 release
- Firefox 64 bit development for Windows discontinued
- ARMv6 in Firefox for Android - compatible with millions of old devices, especially the 17th version of Firefox for Android
- Firefox OS simulator, designed as a Firefox browser add-on
- Windows 8 Benchmarks: IE10 vs. Firefox 16 vs. Google Chrome 23 vs. Opera 12.1
- Opera 12.11 Final
- Microsoft believes that WebKit repeats the experience of IE6 and destroys the idea of web standards
- HTML5 Security Cheatsheet
- Vitrum: browser for iPad from Ukrainian developers
news
- Google Take Action: In a free, borderless world, the Internet should be accessible.
- Nokia Here Maps Appeared in Apple App Store
- Google has improved the search function in Gmail
- Opera Music Store and other music news
- Officially introduced Jolla SailFish OS , as well as a little more detail about the new OS
- Apple received a patent for turning pages in electronic applications
- Facebook and Yahoo! can come together to create a search engine
- Today, smartphones are 20 years old
- Russian announcement ASUS PadFone 2
- Windows family turns 27 years old
- In Android 4.2, developers forgot to add December
Services
- Printliminator - bookmarklet for setting page printing
- How ninja prototypes did . Ninjamock.com - interface designer
- fotor - the new easy-to-use photo editor
- cedvel - editor for creating grids
- duri.me - online tool for generating dataURI-pictures
Demo
- weavesilk - well, very beautiful painter
- Walt Disney Head
- stickman
- Senitels - emulation of the guards movement from the Matrix trilogy
Sites with interesting design and functionality
- claudiocalautti.com - an interesting implementation of the site portfolio
- BeoplayA9 - website presentation with parallax effects and animation
- ats-vs-world.cadillac.com - an interactive entertaining site where you can learn about the world
- weareanonymous.fr - a site with non-standard navigation
- dondona.be/home " - horizontal website with interactive
Design
- Jacob Nielsen explores Windows 8 usability : "Windows 8 - Disappointing Usability for Both Novice and Power Users"
- Usability Guru Jacob Nielsen believes that Windows 8 is inconvenient for everyone
- The invention of UI: Windowed Slider with multiple choice
- 3 disadvantages of adaptive design compared to the mobile version
- A film about the history of design. Part 4
- How to create Retina Graphics for web page design
- Identity - style guides brands from around the world
- Facts showing that parallax scrolling in web design is cool
- The information architecture of mobile applications is presented in simple examples.
- Create a single image HDR effect in Lightroom
- We draw volumetric gears in Illustrator
- How to make a snowflake in the vector and not freeze
- Four dozen creative use of QR code in business card design
- The collection of optimistic orange sites
- Fashion websites with fashion people
- World auto brands sites
- Typographic Inspiring Posters
- Add personality to your web design
- The future of web design for news sites
- Architectural logo
- fontli - a social network for typography
A selection of free designer cookies
- Two and a half dozen fresh fonts
- A set of icons in PNG format dedicated to the arts
- Christmas vector greeting cards
- designkindle - a whole portal-collection of modern designer’s resources (in PSD, PNG and other formats)
- More than four dozen fresh Web and Mobile UI kits
- Another two dozen sets of UI for the web and mobile applications
- This fall vintage from icons, UI sets in PNG, PSD, AI
- Five Dozen Brilliant Dribbble PSD Shecheks
- Icecreamcons - set of vector icons for photoshop
- Five dozen sets of Actions for Photoshop (photo styling)
- Top Ten Online Graphic Design Courses
- DHD Cool Skinny Handwritten Font
- Decorative font WAVE ME IN with original serifs
- Geogram - Font with modern geometric shapes.
- By People - probably the largest collection for web professionals, including a thousand different source codes: icons, templates, backgrounds, ribbons, backgrounds, badges, resumes and other things (684Mb)
Entertaining
- Microsoft Augmented Reality
- Microsoft itself has provided the pirates a loophole to Windows 8?
- The Story of Windows 8
- The results of the survey about the desire of users to buy a new computer with Windows 8
- In Windows 9, maybe the old Start menu will return
- On restarting MySpace will be asked 50 million dollars
- Yandex.Disk made shared folders for collaboration and file sharing
- How to get +25 GB for Dropbox for free
- IE - sloop
- superfreedraw - the world's largest drawing board
- Ingress . The world is not what it seems
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Link to the digest from last week.
Material prepared by dersmoll and alekskorovin
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