The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of ayti for the last week №41 (January 19 - 25, 2013)

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

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Newsmaker Yandex

Yandex introduced the social search Wonder , and Facebook has already blocked it . Also, Yandex and CERN announced a new stage of cooperation , and lectures of the second Moscow stage of SRI were posted on the pages of Yandex events. Well, and interface developers will be interested in an article on the creation of Yandex.Kartinok

Farewell to the epochs

Intel stops production of motherboards for desktop computers , and Nokia releases the latest smartphone on the Symbian platform

To the collection of web developers

Two excellent selections: Collection of mobile frameworks for developing cross-platform applications and Collection of UI-sets on HTML / CSS / JS for rapid prototyping

CSS3 and CSS4: Present and Future

While some are still familiar with the features of CSS3 , others are already looking into the future of the standard.

Presents the first phones based on Firefox OS

The Mozilla project introduced the first two introductory models of phones based on Firefox OS . The devices are aimed at mobile application developers for the Firefox OS platform, which offers a unified Web API . Also, UI-designers will need Building Blocks - a styling and a set of components for Firefox OS

Web design in 2013

"Trends of web design in 2013" ,
“The 20 most relevant areas in the field of web-design and development in 2013” ,
Trends of web and design in 2013 from byPeople ,
Six calls that designers will have to face in 2013

Front end performance

A useful article that will be primarily useful to web designers and front-end developers on the performance issue of the client side of the web. Unfortunately, many people forget to adhere to some optimization methods, and this becomes a potential problem due to the active development of the mobile web.

Development

• Pair programming, CSS, CodeStyle and events in JavaScript - the lectures of the second stage of SRI are already on the Yandex website
• Webfonts - we deal with antialiasing under Windows
• HTML 5.0 and Canvas 2D received the status of Candidate Recommendation
• Turn Sublime Text 2 into Notepad ++
• Great Emmet Cheat Sheet
• Visual Studio: Happiness Web Developers
• Five things you can do to better work with HTML5
• Creating 3D worlds with CSS and HTML
• Creating an adaptive HTML5 contact form with javascript definition
• New feature on codepen - collections with examples
• Responsive Boilerplate - the starting point of the layout of responsive design
• xy.css - responsive liquid matrix
• UI elements for Firefox OS with HTML code
• Collection of mobile frameworks for developing cross-platform applications
• Collection of UI-sets on HTML / CSS / JS for rapid prototyping
• Front-end performance for web designers and front-end vendors
• Instructions for testing performance in WebKit
• Introduction to SVG, Part One
• How to make image responsive in WordPress

CSS

• Lost Documentation or transform: matrix3d
• The correct cursor on the active elements
• Block sizes, or Back to the Future
• Hacks for IE10
• Current options for converting images to BW
• Looking to the future: CSS4
• 2013 CSS Wishlist by Chris Koyer
• Lavalamp CSS menu
• Critical analysis of the book CSS for Babies
• Defending Presentational Class Names
• Advanced CSS Layouts Guide
• Coding Q & A: CSS Performance, Debugging, Naming Conventions
• In the future, CSS shaders will drive the web
• The concept for the design of tags
• One-armed gangster on CSS
• Animated ProgressBar

Javascripts

• Social media buttons, HTML 5, data attribute and asynchronous javascript download
• Trends frontend. Javascript APIs for mobile devices
• JQuery plugin for customizing social buttons
• parsleyjs - simple but powerful JS validation
• Fullscreen Video Testing
• Working with Cookies in jQuery
• Work with canvas using jQuery style syntax
• Introduction to Functions in JavaScript
• JQuery plugin repository back
• CORS is not only for XHR
• binarize.js converts any variables, arrays or objects into binary format
• opentip - a small JS framework for creating tooltips
• Creating a text field with syntax highlighting

Browsers

• Opera is developing a new mobile browser based on the WebKit engine.
• Nice try, Internet Explorer
• Rumors: Firefox Junior Coming In 1H 2013
• The latest news from the developers of Firefox

news

• Presented the first phones based on Firefox OS , + off. announcement
• Intel discontinues desktop motherboards
• Mega file hosting launched to work and after 5 days bypassed Rapidshare and Dropbox
• Symbian is officially dead . Nokia 808 PureView will be the latest smartphone on this platform.
• Yandex and CERN: a new stage of cooperation
• Yandex introduced the social search Wonder , and Facebook has already blocked it.
• PrivatBank has inserted a QR code into its logo
• Twitter introduced the app Vine - Instagram for video
• Google redesigned and improved image search performance
• Smartphones with Android 4.0 overtook the iPhone on user activity in the browser
• Google Presentations available offline

Services

• UI.livetools - online CSS code generator for interface elements
• regexpal.com - JavaScript regular expression tester

Demo

• 3D FPS with HTML and CSS 3D Transformations
• iso - interesting effect using canvas
• Canvas-jittered letters
• Particle Animated Clock

Sites with interesting design and functionality

• ishothim.com - A fun site with a magic “IE Mode” button
• libertine-libertine.net - non-standard approach to creating an online store
• therexstudio.com is a modern website with parallaxes and nice animation that has responsive design.
• weareanonymous.fr - site with non-standard elements
• legworkstudio - website business card studio with a twist
• borjagonzalez.info - entertaining implementation of slider controls
• todaythe12.com - a site with a large number of non-standard elements
• byhook.com - creative site of creative studio

Design

• Competition for the best scheme of the Moscow metro
• Trends of web design in 2013
• Yandeks.Kartinki : the path of the interface solution from idea to implementation
• Website Usability Trends : Europe, USA, CIS
• Lenta.ru for the first time refused to design studio Lebedev
• Criticism of Ludwig new Lenta.ru
• alistapart.com also changed the design
• 4 UX principles that Microsoft forgot about in Windows 8
• 20 most relevant areas in the field of web-design and development in 2013
• Trends of web and design in 2013 by byPeople
• Six challenges that designers will have to face in 2013
• Recent examples of responsive web design
• Google redesign : how Larry Page made a beautiful revolution
• UI Design Guidelines for Responsive Design
• The design process is a myth
• Empty States - empty application screens
• The Post-PSD Era
• How has Apple homepage changed over the past 15 years?
• Business cards of famous people
• Excellent examples of data visualization on mobile devices : charts, graphs, etc.
• In the world of web design, minimalism is cool
• UX design: registration forms

A selection of free designer cookies

• Free Cyrillic fonts
• Five light and free image editors
• January 2013 font collection
• MAKIICONS cartographic icons
• Two packs with PixeloPhilia icons
• Set of popular CMS icons in PNG format
• More than four dozen icons of social networks and services in PNG format
• Soft UI Set - PSD-scale with a set of portfolio sites
• More than two dozen PSD sources of photo-realistic elements

Entertaining

• How to sell IT cats
• France extravaganza: can impose a tax on Facebook , wants to remove the word "hashtag" from the speech of its citizens and obliged Twitter to disclose user data in order to combat anti-Semitism
• Google offers an alternative to passwords
• Why is WordPress free , who pays for it and what's the catch?
• Internet in numbers : world statistics for 2012
• Clip Gangnam Style brought the author and YouTube $ 8 million
• A documentary about The Pirate Bay will appear in the public domain on the day of the premiere, and here you can watch its trailer
• A film about Steve Jobs will be released on April 19
• The demand for Windows 8 in one sentence
• Link Kill Rate to IE Popularity
• Tactus - physical buttons on the display
• Intel gave Stephen Hawking a 70 -mm silicon wafer for his 70th birthday
• Suddenly: Apple patented iBoots
• “Sorry, Steve,” or why I changed my iPhone to Android.
• Will Adobe's cloud strategy fire? .
• Slideshow of funny and trash 404 pages

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