The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of ayti for the last week №51 (March 30 - April 5, 2013)

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

Hot seven

New turn in the browser war

Google introduced Blink , a fork of the WebKit engine, and refused to contribute to multiprocessor support in webkit , and in response, WebKit developers outlined a great purge of the engine from Chrome components . The first Chrome on Blink is expected in 10 weeks . Opera also moves to the Blink engine . In parallel, Mozilla and Samsung are building their new Servo browser engine . A few thoughts of Western developers about Blink and Servo , and also Thoughts about the struggle of the Forces of Good with the Forces of Mind from Bobuk

15 years old Mozilla

Congratulations to the Mozilla project on the fifteenth anniversary and we are acquainted with 15 facts about the greatest achievements of the project in 15 years. . Also, from the company's news: Firefox 20 release , private tabs, various APIs and extensions that do not require restarting , download manager, anonymous surfing and new Android version , as well as Firefox 21 Beta

What did you do on April 1st

The developers showed a cool new theme for Bootstrap , wrote about usability for cats , invented CSS localization and April Fool's CSS-snippets , and few have a decent selection from opennet.ru . As always, Google and Yandex have distinguished themselves. This and much more, see the section "Entertaining"

Facebook Home and HTC First

Meet Facebook Home and HTC First , the first few videos with a demonstration . Some large companies have already registered for Facebook Home . In addition, you can read two relevant articles: " Mark Zuckerberg invented the phone and the operating system , not doing either one or the other" and "Facebook does not make the plug Android, and eats it with a spoon"

Javascript

We invite you to familiarize yourself with the ECMAScript 6 review , the next version of JavaScript. Well, without departing from the topic - 24 council javascript developer .

Flash vs HTML5

Flash or HTML5 ? If you have not yet decided who to cast your vote to, this colorful comparison may help you make a choice using the example of the game.

The future of mobile cameras

The race for megapixels actually lost its meaning a couple of years ago and now engineers are more and more paying attention to quality rather than size. Someone invents ultra-pixels, someone makes a Binary Pixel sensor, and someone focuses on the processing power of the processor and graphics chip for processing information from the sensor. Than this race would not end, in any case, we will win - the end users.

Development

• April Fools' jokes of developers:
  
  
  • New cool theme for Bootstrap
  • Mobile Usability for Cats - article from usability guru Jacob Nielsen
  • CSS localization from Adobe developers
  • April Fool's CSS Snippets
  • A large collection of opennet.ru
  
  
  
• Flash vs html
• Free Chrome Developers Tool Tutorials
• Browser console features
• Events and Inspector for Mozilla fonts
• Hgroup tag is removed from the HTML5 specification
• 8 guidelines and one rule for responsive images
• Tips for developing interfaces with subsequent localization
• New tools for web design and development in March 2013
• User Testing for Web Accessibility
• HTML5 Crossbrowser Videos
• Logo as a web font ligature
• Drop-Down Navigation : Responsive and Touch-Friendly
• App Showcase with Grid Overlay
• Acquaintance navigator.mozPay () for web payments
• Creating an adaptive system to improve user interaction
• Checklist for web developer
• Just about high DPI images.
• Introducing Adobe Edge Reflow
• Convert a document to 3D using CSS3 transformations
• Eight guides and one rule for working with responsive images
• Navigating Custom Elements and Web Components Using WebMaker Components
• Media Queries is a hack

CSS

• How CSS supports
• Pop hover by Chris Coyier
• Specific Layout for ePubs, Mobi and Web
• Media Queries in SVG images
• Origami : A CSS 3D Foldout Image Gallery
• 3D iPhone on CSS
• Style-Guide-Boilerplate
• CSS masking for advanced browsers
• Fat Expanded Style Sheets - a service that will make your code bigger at times
• Comparison of responsive CSS frameworks : Bootstrap vs. Foundation vs. Skeleton
• Animation of circular motion on CSS3 with a fork for IE

Javascripts

• 24 javascript developer tips
• High performance javascript parallax
• Using design patterns in javaScript. Part 1: Generating Patterns
• Overview of ECMAScript 6 , the next version of JavaScript
• Fullscreen javascript API , or how to maximize the page.
• Comparison of physical js engines
• Top 5 JS Libraries for Working with Graphics
• LayerSlider - 3D responsive jQuery slider with cool visual effects
• sidr - jQuery plugin for creating side menu
• fragment.js - library for adding overlay with instructions
• chardin.js is a tool for loading html fragments and templates.
• Keep the Rhythm - preserve vertical rhythm for objects with dynamic pitch
• jison - Your friendly JavaScript parser generator
• draggabilly - add drag'n'drop functionality with support for IE8 + and multi-touch.
• FractionSlider - Query plugin for image / text-sliders.
• Sonic - creating animated loaders on canvas

Browsers

• Google introduced Blink , a fork of the WebKit engine, and refused to contribute to multiprocessor support in webkit , and in response, WebKit developers outlined a great purge of the engine from Chrome components . First Chrome on Blink is expected in 10 weeks
• Opera also moves to the Blink engine
• Mozilla and Samsung create a new generation Servo browser engine
• Opinions: Western developers about Blink and Servo , Thoughts on the struggle of the Force of Good with the Forces of the Mind Bobuk
• Firefox: Firefox 20 release , private tabs, various APIs and extensions that do not require restarting , download manager, anonymous surfing and new Android version , as well as Firefox 21 Beta
• Events and Inspector for Mozilla fonts
• Net Applications: Internet Explorer accounts for 55.83% of the browser market , another analysis of NetApplications data and opposite data from StatCounter
• Yandex Browser Manager
• Password synchronization and auto-completion of fields - now in Chrome for Android
• Internet Oscar and Internet Explorer
• Internet Explorer 11 supports WebGL
• SPDY in the future Internet Explorer 11 & Windows Blue
• A against Net Applications: again about the shares of browsers
• Safari occupies 61% share of mobile browsers
• We test the site on different versions of IE under Linux / Mac
• Chromium Feature Dashboard

news

• Meet Facebook Home and HTC First , the first few videos with a demonstration . Some large companies have already registered for Facebook Home . In addition, you can read two relevant articles: " Mark Zuckerberg invented the phone and the operating system , not doing either one or the other" and "Facebook does not make the plug Android, and eats it with a spoon"
• Yandex.DNS is a free DNS service that blocks dangerous and adult sites.
• Microsoft is also developing its own counterpart, Google Glass, and the Chinese are already releasing an analog
• Windows Blue will be called Windows 8.1 and also Share Windows 8 in March
• Google is changing the approach to calculating the popularity of versions of Android , or updated statistics on the relevance of versions
• The Mozilla project celebrates its fifteenth anniversary , as well as 15 facts about the greatest achievements of the project in 15 years.
• Unsinkable: BlackBerry financial situation has stabilized , operating profit has increased
• Yandex has released the results of research : Internet development in the regions of Russia (spring 2013)
• Toshiba introduced the most compact 13-megapixel sensor , but the number of pixels does not mean better quality.
• Dell introduces the new XPS 18 candy bar for $ 899 , setting a new standard for the candy bar market
• Google released the third version of the library with the implementation of the format WebP
• Ukrainian file sharing has become the 4th in the world in popularity
• ICANN has approved a new Cyrillic domain. RUS

Services

• defineResponsive - a visual demonstration of the principles of responsive design
• svgpatterns - SVG template gallery
• SubtlePatterns - bookmarklet for adding custom background to any site
• A selection of sites that teach you to draw beautifully
• padlet.com - wall with a unique address for publications
• Artlessness
• World's The Most Beautiful Places is an entertaining service, which is a collection of the most beautiful places of our planet with a large selection of maps that allows you to display these places simultaneously on several satellite maps.
• A small comparison of services for connecting non-standard web fonts

Demo

• Adaptive progress bar
• (codassium); - WebRTC video chat + code editor = great job interview

Sites with interesting design and functionality

• pixeljuice.ru - a site with non-standard scrolling and interactive emulation due to parallaxes and animation
• hotdot.pro - horizontal parallax website
• hobolobo.net - another horizontal site with parallax, but with a story in pictures
• distancetomars.com - visual demonstration of the distance to Mars
• swag2012.fr - an interactive site that will delight football fans
• welovenoise.com - a site with a non-standard implementation of navigation
• numero10.ch - vertical site with thematic illustrations and parallax
• activetheory.net - non-standard implementation of page transitions
• afonsobarros.com - Canvas site created with Three.js and Easel.js
• alifartgallery.ae - a gallery with a flat metro-interface and animated transitions in the style of windows 8
• dida.uz - portfolio with parallax and horizontal scrolling touchscreen
• Mark Zuckerberg's first website

Design

• WEB DESIGN: Personalization
• An old but entertaining story about the font game.
• Facebook usability. Part 2: Facebook for people
• Adobe has translated the invisible font Blank into the category of free
• Examples of printed brochure designs
• Create a minimalistic layout in Photoshop CS6 (part 1) and part 2
• Google Treasure Maps
• Navigation for mega-sites
• iicns - iOS Icons Gallery
• Modern browser interface design concept
• Sites using spectacular monotony
• Hidden features of the Sketch Editor Part 2
• The big idea in UI gadgets : an interface that adapts to the growth of your experience
• Mini-interviews with the creators of ten sites nominated for this year’s .net Award
• Examples of design contracts for various types of work
• Creating a demo : a simple way to demonstrate prototype design in Adobe Fireworks
• Vintage 3D text effect in Photoshop CS6
• Creating a text effect magma in Photoshop
• Work with plug-in for Photoshop Filter Forge
• Lessons from Illustrator and Photoshop last month
• Logos: with eggs , with various types of transport , shoe industry , with the theme of "sushi"

A selection of free designer cookies

• Textures: metal , fabric , prolineen paper (striped)
• Photoshop brushes with sparkles and asterisks
• For tweet or like PSD sources of various UI components
• PSD different content sliders
• Two dozen sets with icons
• A dozen icon sets from dribbble
• Fresh fonts: from Langdon to Bellota

Entertaining

• April Fools
  
  
  • Jokes collections: in video format , from the Habr audience (most of them are in the comments) , as well as in the text here and here , and here is a lot of everything from Ribbon (but not IT)
  • April Fools Google and Google introduced a series of April Fools services
  • Yandex.Mail: in search of truth
  • Trolling School from Lurka
  • Razer Phone Mouse
  • Smart watches are no longer in fashion : Intel and Mail.Ru Group introduced digital lenses
  • A selection of jokes from the gaming industry
  
  
  
• Europe declared war on Google
• Google loved Orkut more. Reader and other myths.
• 3D photorealism : when graphics in games start to seem real
• Choosing a tablet: screens, platforms, equipment
• Apple patents a hybrid laptop with wireless charging and image transfer
• The future of mobile cameras
• Race for ppi : new high-tech madness
• Who will win the battle for smartwatch market?
• 11 reasons why Guy Kawasaki thinks Android is better than iOS
• Interview with 37signals: “Why are remote employees preferable to companies?”
• How did Spamhaus bring down and why did the largest DDoS attack go unnoticed by nets?
• Guide to search engine filters and sanctions
• 11 phases about the career of a web developer (translation)
• Microsoft posts your success stories on BuildForWindows.ru
• Rating of the world's largest IT transactions

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Digest from last week .

Material prepared by dersmoll and alekskorovin