The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of ayti for the last week №43 (February 2 - 8, 2013)

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

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Hello Chrome, it's Firefox calling!

This week the first video call between Chrome and Firefox took place, and this is really the beginning of a new round in the development of communication on the web. Skype may be getting nervous, but here it’s written how you can try new technology yourself.

“Find Your Way To Oz”

After Movi.Kanti.Revo , an experiment that Google created together with Cirque du Soleil , Google did not stop there and presented “Find Your Way To Oz” - HTML5 Chrome Experiment in collaboration with Disney and Unit9. An article about how it was created from a technical point of view.

To help developers

New features for web developers offered by Google Drive . He is not far behind him and Dropbox, which made life easier for those who make mobile apps . Facebook and Yandex went even further: the first ones launch an educational video application for developers , while the latter even posted video lectures on the entire course of the first School of Interface Development

mod_rewrite. A guide for continuing

Would you like to know how mod_rewrite actually works? Then this tutorial is exactly what you need.

Once again about performance

Not so long ago, an excellent video from lya Grigorik on the theme “Faster Websites: Crash Course on Web Performance” became available. It is recommended to view all who strive for performance on the web.
Also, on net.tutsplus appeared an article dedicated to optimizing JS using the Chrome Dev Tools . In addition, you can see the translation of the article "High performance Google Chrome . "

Let's say no to some interface elements.

In this article, you can read why the sliders - it sucks , in this - why do not need the carousel roundabouts , and here - a call to stop using useless selekta on the pages

Hello future

More recently, multitouch caused wild delight after the button panels, now you can look at three interface options from the future . They also promise that soon 3D printers will be able to print donor organs , and here Epson shows that it’s not Google Glass alone .
And what about the future prediction system for changes in the present ? However, back in 2013 and see what kind of clothes and gadgets geeks can expect this year.

Development

• Facebook launches a video tutorial app for developers, announces major changes to the Facebook API , and here you can learn how to prepare your fb-account for switching to GraphSearch
• Cloud storage takes a step towards developers: Google Drive has made it possible to publicly host static sites, and Dropbox launches an improved Sync API toolkit for Android and iOS application developers.
• Lecture videos of the entire course of the first Yandex Interface Development School
• Classic sapper on html5 and libcanvas
• Interactive infographics with CSS and SVG animations
• How mod_rewrite actually works . A guide for continuing
• Prevalence of new semantic HTML5 tags currently
• Faster Websites - Web Productivity Slide Course
• Cool Kitten - an adaptive framework for creating websites with parallax
• cgSceneGraph - powerful cross-platform HTML5 Canvas Framework
• New HTML5 Features - Offline Web Applications
• The HTML 5.1 draft copy of the text introduces the 'main' element
• Visual method for understanding WebKit Layout
• 6 things you didn’t know about Firefox OS
• Firebug Tips & Tricks
• Emulate "float: DOWN"
• A little bit about the creation of TWEETMAP and the announcement of the following materials
• SVG Hacking Example
• HTML5 Game Development Tutorial by Udacity
• New in WebStorm 6 EAP : among other things, full support for Emmet and the latest version of JSHint
• Refresh browser in Sublime Text 2

CSS

• Roole, a new preprocessor for CSS
• Details on CSS Click Events
• Stately - a character web font with a US map and ligatures support for modern browsers
• CSS background-position and percentages
• Media Query width and vertical scrollbars
• Deep CSS immersion gradients
• HINT.css - a library for creating CSS tooltips (so far it only fully works in Firefox)
• Use CSS3 Pseudo Elements and Box Shadows instead of images for HiDPI geometry
• Creating a 3D book animation
• Pseudo background-position

Javascripts

• Browse free js jsdelivr js cdn hosting
• Rye is a lightweight js-library for DOM manipulations and events with support for all modern browsers.
• textillate - js-plugin for text-based CSS3 animation
• Handsontable - a minimalist table with data in Excel style.
• Toolbar.Js - library for creating toolbar style tooltip
• Polyphil “text-wrap: balanced” for text balancing , and an Adobe blog description of why
• Chrome Dev Tools : JavaScript and Performance
• Countdown timer on jQuery Canvas

news

• "Yandex" overtook Bing and came in fourth place in the number of search queries
• Amazon will get its own virtual currency
• New design of channels on YouTube made in the style of Google+
• For Android, a tool is being developed to run wine-based Windows applications.
• Google is testing new features in the results
• Facebook turned 9 years old . TOP-9 facts about the social network
• Microsoft News: The share of Windows 8 exceeded 2%, Windows 7 is falling , Surface Pro tablet has already appeared on sale in the Microsoft Store, and Windows Phone 8 has already bypassed Windows Phone 7 in the United States . All Microsoft services and products will be updated once a year.
• Hackers broke 250 thousand Twitter accounts
• Android version fragmentation persists

Browsers

• The first video call between Chrome and Firefox , + the official announcement , as well as a new one in WebRTC
• Application to demonstrate the future alert system in Google Chrome
• Browser trends as of February 2013
• Chrome Extensions Gallery Switches to WebP
• How to make friends Chrome with a slow computer
• Translation of the excellent Google Chrome high performance article.

Services

• CodeAndMore - another font generator
• pagelayers - an application for Mac OS X that allows you to save site pages in psd with layers
• Periodic Table WP Plugins
• A selection of Image Placeholder APIs , as well as another service for creating placeholders - not-dot.tk
• SubtlePatterns bookmarklet that allows you to change the background texture directly in the browser
• Golden section calculator for web typography (Golden Ratio Typography Calculator)

Demo

• Google introduced “Find Your Way To Oz” - HTML5 Chrome Experiment in collaboration with Disney and Unit9. An article about how it was created from a technical point of view.

Sites with interesting design and functionality

• rezon.fr - non-standard site geometry comes to a new level
• zervice.com - as well as non-standard navigation or travel by auto zervice around the site
• internship.wearex3.com - a perfectly styled site with thematic illustrations and parallax
• package.dego.lv - simple but cute one-page website with animation
• lincolnsland.com - the Lincoln themed one-page website
• julesbassoleil.fr - minimalistic portfolio with interesting slide effects
• 20 sites with non-standard original geometry

Design

• Helvetica part two : wandering in a fog of antipathy
• Why are sliders sucks?
• Statistics on the carousel, showing why they are not needed
• Stop using useless selections on pages.
• Ultimate Collection of Fireworks Tutorials
• BLOKK - a font for creating layouts and prototypes without specifying a language
• Examples of logos with optical illusions and very necessary explanations about what can still be seen in each complex image
• Sketch VS Photoshop + Sketch VS Fireworks
• Gradual reduction
• Script for editing the parameters of the corners in Photoshop
• Adobe improved 3D functionality in Photoshop CS6.1 , and how to make a valentine with this 3D functionality
• The secrets of retouching tools in Photoshop CS6 - part 3 and part 4
• A dozen best photoshop lessons for last month
• Align and merge objects in Illustrator
• Examples of web designs from successful sports websites
• The art of using polygons in web design
• The process of creating the logo ITV , and Web Design Goodies
• Just four of the best logos of 2012 according to justcreative readers
• Eight tips on how to improve your skills in web design
• A collection of creative Google Doodles

A selection of free designer cookies

• Some bark textures , three dozen vintage paper textures
• For Valentine's Day, a small set of icons from Smashing Magazine in PNG and EPS formats , as well as cute vector illustrations , another similar set and corresponding brushes for photoshop
• Another positive set of icons Valentines Icon Set in red
• Socialtograms - vector icons / pictograms of social media in AI format, from Steffen Nørgaard Andersen
• Simple Icons - almost a hundred icons in eleven sizes in PNG format
• Polaris UI Pack - a set of interface elements, drawn in a vector in Photoshop, by default for use on a dark background, plus a set of Linecons icons with web fonts and in vector formats, all from Designmodo
• Collection of UI kits for desktop applications , mainly for Mac
• Brooklyn - a decorative, slightly similar to the Gothic, serif font
• Capita Light - a nice serif font
• Silverfake - wide retro slab-serif font by Alexey Frolov aka MRfrukta

Entertaining

• Mega : everything you wanted to know about Kim Dotcom's new file hosting service
• On Kickstarter raise funds for the construction of "Death Star"
• 3D printers will soon be able to print donor organs
• What will happen after the multitouch : three interfaces of the future
• Clothing and gadgets, year 2013
• Future prediction system for present changes
• Meta virtual reality glasses based on Epson Moverio BT-100
• Ambiguous Go-Daddy Advertising in the Super Bowl Helps Reach Record Sales
• Brands Master Vine
• Puzzle Mercator for geography connoisseurs
• Google prefers updated news articles.
• Google added Grand Canyon panoramic images in Street View
• How did Instagram become popular in the first days after launch?
• Abrams Films Half-Life and Portal

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