The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of ayti for the last week №36 (December 15 - 21, 2012)
We offer to your attention another selection with links to news, interesting materials and useful resources.
Google search engine launched a service that will track the movement of Santa's sleigh on Catholic Christmas Eve on December 24th. If you are not interested in moving your grandfather, you can pay attention to the technical implementation of the project - CSS animations, parallax effects, mini-games on JS, using the API for maps and much more.
The W3C Consortium has announced the completion of the HTML5 and Canvas 2D specification preparation process, which is recognized as fully formed, completed, and complete. At the same time, the first draft of HTML 5.1 and HTML Canvas 2D Context, Level 2 , as well as the specification for the new element “main” were presented.
Yandex and Sberbank of Russia will jointly develop online payments based on Yandex.Money , Yandex.Disk has invented a service for mobile relocation , and also updated the Navigator application for Android and iOS, adding support for pre-caching city maps
We bring to your attention a large selection of plugins on jQuery that support touch events. Due to the sharp growth of smartphones, tablets and mobile traffic, such things are becoming increasingly relevant
Sometimes it is worthwhile to suspend the active development of the next cool feature for the site and look back at how ready-made work from a speed point. In particular, to calculate the performance of scrolling , as well as think about the method of choosing the method of animation, after reading the latest articles by Paul Irish and Chris Koyera
We offer you an excellent article on the topic “Flash and HTML5 for clients, developers and users. Turn off the nuts. " Briefly about the current state of affairs to date and the debunking of some myths
Excellent article from Habr's sandbox, where it is demonstrated how using HTML5 technologies you can write your interactive application
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Link to the digest from last week.
Material prepared by dersmoll and alekskorovin
Hot seven
 | Santa tracker |
 | The W3C consortium has completed the formation of HTML5 specifications and submitted an HTML 5.1 draft |
 | A scattering of news from Yandex: |
 | Facilitate the development of a mobile web for smartphones |
 | Web page performance |
 | Flash vs HTML5 |
 | Its game with JavaScript and Canvas |
Development
- Latest videos from Web Standards Days in Moscow:
- Round table with experts from W3C, Yandex and Opera Software
- Responsive Web Design - What? Where? When?
- Getting touchy
- Technologist is also a designer
- Grunt. Build system for front-end developers
- Round table with experts from W3C, Yandex and Opera Software
- Updated server configs from html5boilerplate
- Its game with JavaScript and Canvas
- Scrolling performance
- Upcoming changes in bootstrap 3.0
- Firefox Development Tools
- Microsoft wrote Pointer Events for Webkit
- Vexing Viewportst (Pesky Viewports) - an entertaining article from PPK and the company, about pixel problems with mobile devices and in particular with iPad mini
- Discover WordPress Conditional Tags
- Conditional loading of resources with mediaqueries
- Merry Scrolling with skrollr.js
- SVG: Basics of Vector Graphics in HTML
- Mobile browsers and position: fixed
- Tips on Sublime Text 2 - your favorite code editor
- thefirefoxos.com - a portal dedicated to OS Firefox
- Optimization of the flight of snowflakes rendered on canvas
- The fastest way to copy a hex color value from Photoshop
- Read before starting a huge new web project.
CSS
- Native recognition of CSS features using the @supports rule
- It's time to update your style sheets.
- CSS Baseline: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
- Why animation with translate () is better than pos: abs top / left (paulirish)
- And once again: a story about the performance of animations (chriscoyier)
- Using minimum and maximum width and height in CSS
- CSS calc
- CSS Click Events
- How to make arrows on the example of the site Adobe
- How to align the background with multiline text
- Proper terminology for CSS class selectors
- Marching ants on text using canvas
Javascripts
- Video of reports from the last week of the KharkivJS conference: part 1 , part 2
- jQuery 1.9 Beta 1 Released
- Javascript: Draw with Bezier Curves
- App Folders - effect for clicking icons in the style of iOS
- toggles - pretty jQuery switches
- stratus - jQuery library for working with SoundCloud
- shapeshift - a library for creating dynamic grids
- jQuery Spellchecker
- Mini Help System with jQuery
- 43 jQuery-plugin for working with touch-events
- Creating a Mobile Touch Panel with JQuery
Browsers
- Yandex.Browser overtakes Internet@Mail.ru and continues to grow
- Mozilla is going to stop supporting 32-bit builds of Firefox for Linux
- H.264, MP3 and AAC in Firefox Nightly for Windows
- Browsers: BlackBerry 10 vs. Windows Phone 8 (HTC 8X) vs. iPhone 5
- Safari could be called Freedom
news
- The W3C consortium has completed the formation of HTML5 specifications and submitted an HTML 5.1 draft
- Qt 5.0 major release has been released - one of the largest software development frameworks.
- Futubra everything
- Yandex.Disk for mobile moving
- Instead of the end of the world. Apps beat browser
- Google+: 24 New Year's Gifts
- Your Twitter archive
- What did you watch on YouTube in the outgoing 2012?
- German Gref confirms the purchase of Yandex.Money by Sberbank
- Yandex.Navigator with offline maps
- In 2012, Nokia ceased to be the largest manufacturer of mobile phones.
- Wired included Eugene Kaspersky in the list of the most dangerous people in the world
- TechCrunch 2013 Major Technology Conference List
- Eric Schmidt: Android Wins Apple
Services
- spritemachine - another online sprite generator
- divshot - The Interface Builder for Web Apps
- Scratchpad - online HTML / CSS code editor
- framote - assistant for developers of mobile sites and not only! (Editable shortlink)
- moonbase - animation generator
Demo
Sites with interesting design and functionality
- alln1hob.com is a simple but elegant website.
- energytrust.org/timeline/ horizontal scrolling-dragging illustrated site
- what-if.es is a one-page site with nice fade effects
- cinema-series.orange.fr/evenement/magiccity/ a spectacular cinematic site with many effects and easy parallax
Design
- New for web designer for the first half of December
- Review of popular design trends in the 2012th
- Interactive blog typography guide
- mockupstogo - a set of UI components for balsamiq
- Behance Team Joins Adobe
- Typographical techniques every designer should know
- The documentary film "Connecting" - the future of interactive design and user experience
- Adobe has added support for Retina displays in Photoshop CS6
- Creating a Photoshop Dynamic Color Inversion Effect
- The history of the development of screen savers graphics programs: Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop
- Using blurred background in web design
- How can I make QR codes for holidays
- Four dozen Christmas wallpapers
A selection of free designer cookies
- Template for creating icons for iOS
- Collection 2012 UI Kits
- PSD Mailing List Template
- PSD source images of mobile devices - Android, iPad, iPhone
- PSD travel site
- Concrete texture set
- Ten packs of Christmas icons and wallpaper
- Packaging of Christmas icons in PNG format 256x256 from Smashing Magazine
- Packaging of round social icons
- Culinary Icons
- More than fifty packs of Christmas icons
- iconify.it - collection of monochrome icons
- Packaging with Disney characters
- Vector vintage and floral ornaments and brushes.
- A dozen InDesign templates for brochures and magazines
- Ten fresh fonts, from YDXS to Albatross
- Handy Icons - an iconic web font with hand-drawn icons.
- Christmas Numerals - Christmas Font
Entertaining
- How YouTube affects the speed of news distribution
- Flash and HTML5 for customers, developers and users. Turn off the nuts
- Who will survive after “Kaliningrad”? The implications of personalization for major market players.
- 100 seconds about PayPal
- Kseniya Simonova gave a new update to the history of the launch of YouTube in Ukraine.
- GPS and Maps: Displaced Coordinates in China
- NASA Johnson Style - how to popularize science
- Readability vs. Instapaper vs. Pocket. Comparative overview of delayed reading services
- Big Bang - a new project from lenta.ru on the history of video games
- VKontakte refuses to play Sergey Lazarev's songs due to low cultural value.
- Two-gigapixel photo of Everest
- ROSARMAGEDDONBANK
- London residents will be offered to report fires on Twitter
- Google launched its own tracking service for Santa Claus
- Microsoft has found a good way to explain the simplicity of Windows 8
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Link to the digest from last week.
Material prepared by dersmoll and alekskorovin
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/163569/
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