The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of ayti for the last week No. 53 (April 13 - 19, 2013)

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

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JQuery 2.0 release

A new version of jQuery 2.0, the most popular JavaScript library in the world, was announced today. In addition to abandoning support for IE below version 9, there is another important point: the library now consists of a number of modules , 12 of which are independent and among which, for example, Sizzle is a full-scale selector scripting engine

Google glass

So, the most awaited gadget from Google went to the masses. Let's get acquainted with the incoming information: Google Glass unboxed + manual to it , Google Glass Technical Specs , First videos , Day with Google Glass : first impressions, more impressions , as well as first questions and first problems. Developers are not forgotten either - using Glass Shalblon HTML and Google Glass Development : Mirror API, HTML5

Dive Into Mobile

The Dive Into Mobile conference, organized by the Wall Street Journal and AllthingsDigital, took place in New York. Among the IT stars who attended the conference were the heads of Google, Mozilla, Waze, WhatsApp and other companies. You can read short daily reports here and here , an interview with Mozilla CEO Gary Covax here . Video interview with Eric Schmidt . Podcast lovers can also listen to a short summary at this address.

Twitter Music

Last week, Twitter announced some of its own music service, and this one was made publicly available . The developers promise that this service will change the way people search for music.

Frontend performance

We continue to fight for the speed of the client part of the project. This will help two useful articles: Front-end performance for designers and developers from Harry Roberts and Preventing a performance hit due to custom fonts from Chris Coyer

TowTruck - new service from Mozilla Labs

Thanks to the efforts of the guys from Mozilla, a new service developed in HTML5 / JavaScript and WebRTC and WebSocket technologies has appeared. The service allows for the joint viewing and development of sites in real time. The principle of operation is a bit like Google Docs, but in addition a text chat has been added and video and audio chat has been announced.

Entertaining statistics

Two giants of the Runet - Yandex and Mail.ru - provided the public with the results of their recent research. The first studied in detail the interests and search behavior of their users, and according to the second, the gaming industry overtook film distribution in Russia and the CIS

Development

• Using SVG
• Video of reports from J.Subbotnik on the frontend in Riga
• Frontend performance for designers and developers
• TowTruck - a new service from Mozilla Labs for simultaneous editing sites
• How I Quake in the browser did
• Tools for web developers to help save time
• Sublime Text 2 - a brief overview, examples and plugins, as well as Customization Sublime Text 2
• Testing applications for Canvas : recipes on the example of testing the Yandex.Maps API
• Bootstrap-wysiwyg : a tiny text editor
• Templates and examples for adaptive navigation , as well as options for implementing the Slide and Push exit menus
• Responsive Patterns - a collection of patterns and modules for responsive web designs
• How to write Photoshop Extension using HTML, CSS and JS.
• Prevent performance loss due to custom fonts
• New APIs: Web Payments with PaySwarm and updates in WebRTC
• Google Glass Development : Mirror API, HTML5
• Sprite animation
• 5 reasons to start using jQuery mobile
• Google I / O 2013 Experiment
• Watching WordPress 3.6 , which is set to be released in early May
• Never say the word "WordPress" during the sale of the project
• The-M-Project is a mobile HTML5 JavaScript Framework that allows you to quickly and easily create mobile applications
• Tag hgroup removed from HTML 5.1
• Combination of SVG and icon fonts
• Hack Your Maps - about inserting maps
• Introduction to the types of programming systems
• Flexbox animation
• Slideshow against the page
• Adaptive grid for the entire width of the browser window

CSS

• CSS frameworks for responsive design
• How does automatic positioning work in CSS?
• CSS Repetitive Jagged Background
• Autoprefixer - the ultimate solution to the prefix problem in CSS
• List of pseudo-elements for styling form controls
• CSS Architecture : clean code principles and new practices
• Continuous CSS3 animation
• How to turn your icon into a web font
• “CSS is' easy”
• shame.css - just a joke, or a really good idea?
• Hover is dead, long live hover!
• CSS Paint Times and Page Render Weight
• Experiments with Swiss Style in CSS
• CSS FilterLab : a visual sandbox for filters
• SVG filters (webplatform.org)
• Creating a modern email template
• Meteorological SVG icons animated with CSS3
• RWD testing
• Buttons that unfold around its axis horizontally

Javascripts

• The release of the free JavaScript library jQuery 2.0 , also the official announcement on the blog
• We write our context menu on jQuery
• Once again about creating jQuery plugin or using it in practice
• Mozilla JavaScript Web Chat
• YaUI - Buddhist Cross - Platform Native JavaScript UI Library
• Everything for handling JavaScript error in the project
• FlexNav - jQuery Plugin for responsive multi-level menus
• Responsive Multi-Level Menu
• Greensock - js-framework for creating animation in the web
• shapeshift - a library for organizing independent blocks with the support of design adaptability
• jAutochecklist - jQuery plugin for creating user friendly HTML lists
• TimeJump - go through hash tags in HTML5 audio and video
• Log - a script that allows you to color and style messages in the console
• Random Number Generation
• RETINISE.JS - to support image versions for Retina displays

Browsers

• IE competition "Microsoft IE Win Back"
• Protection against malicious sites using Yandex.DNS and Google Chrome
• Rockmelt closes the social browser and is preparing to launch a new service.
• IE 10, Windows 8 and Metro UI
• Adobe has joined the development of Blink.
• The new design of Firefox plan to limit the ability to customize the interface
• How to learn the “blind” typing with Google Chrome
• Seismic changes in the browser landscape and where we are now

news

• Twitter Music
• Phones on Firefox OS will be available next week.
• Google Glass:
  
  • Google Glass unboxed + manual for it
  • Google Glass Technical Specs
  • First videos taken with Google Glass
  • Google Glass Day: First Impressions
  • First impressions, first questions, first problems
  • Google prohibits selling / lending your Google Glass
  • Using Glass HTML templates
  
  
• Dive Into Mobile:
  
  • Dive Into Mobile conference held in New York
  • day one , day two
  • Mozilla CEO Gary Kovaks : The border between the application and the web page is no longer
  • Video interview with Eric Schmidt
  • Leading employees of the IT-industry talked about their offspring
  
  
• YouTube introduced the function of "video recorder" to view the video, in honor of the 57th anniversary of the "Vidic"
• Statistics : which Android tablets are the most popular in the world?
• Facebook tests Cyrillic logo
• Netflix plans to stop using Microsoft Silverlight in favor of HTML5
• Microsoft, too, will take up the development of smart watches?
• Co-founders sold 48% of VKontakte shares, without saying Durov
• Amazon will open an Android application store in 200 countries
• There are 750 million Androids in the world ; 1.5 million activated every day
• Transformer monoblocks are coming: ASUS Transformer AiO goes on sale , Dell XPS 18 monoblock is available for pre-order
• IHS: netbooks will completely disappear until 2015
• Leap Motion and HP will release a PC with support for contactless gesture control

Services

• 10 online tools for creating your portfolio
• Excellent service for testing and debugging responsive design
• FlexyBoxes - sandbox and online generator
• forecast.io - a new generation weather forecast
• coffitivity - mixes music with cafe sounds, creating a peculiar atmosphere
• moot.it - a platform for creating forums
• pltts.me - quick search for the desired color palette
• kippt.com - an online library that allows you to create your own collection of materials
• todocat.com - the most correct to-do list

Demo

• CSS Factory
• Animal CSS
• 30 games on html5
• Northern Lights at 360 degrees

Sites with interesting design and functionality

• 7billionworld.com - 7 billion people on one page
• intothearctic.gp - a cool Greenpeace website about the Arctic
• weareeli.dk - non-standard approach to site navigation
• pillandpillow.com - a creative approach to creating a portfolio
• thebuildfilm.com - an interactive film site
• co3.lemouv.fr - another site that will break your stereotypes
• moto.oakley.com - site presentation with an abundance of parallax and animations
• toyota.com/onlythename - car slider site with full-page video
• theartofraw.g-star.com - one-page full-screen site with easy navigation
• onnit.com/lucid-dreaming - animation + scroll effects
• liton.ru/ru - one-page site with various effects
• finch15.com - dynamically changing logo
• firstmenonthemoon.com - immersion in the operation of the lunar landing of the first man on the moon

Design

• Review of fresh materials, January-March 2013 from the mail.ru blog
• Designed to improve readability
• Space scenes in web design
• Examples of using illustrations in web design
• New GitHub Logo
• USAToday redesign
• The best examples of using circles in web design
• Vector materials in retro style
• Good User Interface - good interface usability rules
• Understanding Smart Objects in Coping
• Use Photoshop and Illustrator to create a string typographic effect.
• Creative photos , retouched studio Filtre
• Creative concepts UI applications for iOS
• Some of the best Photoshop lessons for March and this month.
• Designs: subscription forms on websites , search forms , illustration sites
• Examples of logos: sports , cheese
• Examples of "flat" icons
• Examples of impressive logos using a 3D effect.
• Several plug-ins for photoshop for photographers
• Quickly test iOS icon designs

A selection of free designer cookies

• Vector: banners , frames, mainly with floral design
• Sketch App Wired 1.0
• Textures: black and white
• Icons: Simplicity - Vector Icons Set , Flat Icon Set in PSD
• Two thousand patterns for photoshop
• IPad and iPhone 5 for airframes
• Push Notification PSD
• PSD templates for various UI components , text effects, and print
• Fonts: Press Style , Dottie Daze , Futura FH Custom , Langdon , defeated

Entertaining

• Game industry overtook film distribution in Russia and the CIS
• Yandex users: interests and search behavior
• Some Friday statistics from Magic, Inc. based on data from VKontakte
• Phototest of current smartphones 2013
• Searchengines.ru - The brilliant story of triumph
• Top-25: IT companies with record programmers salaries
• Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Beta: what's new? , Fantastic features in a fresh public beta
• Performers of the terrorist attack in Boston found through crowdsourcing
• Programmer Recruitment Guide
• Facebook Home: users already criticize , and Why you shouldn’t put it on your Android smartphone
• Internet advertising in the era of Big Data
• How to buy the cheapest flights? Incognito mode + other tips
• Touch through the Internet . Durex Virtual Sex
• 42 kilometers of tweets , Google launched a search for information about the victims for residents of Boston
• Google will change the mechanism of the issuance under the pressure of the EU
• Google Art research and two years of work
• New ways to display information: Development of Fujitsu allows you to work with a sheet of paper , as with a touch screen (video) and Touch screen, which can stretch and ruin
• Eric Schmidt expressed concern about flying drones , an example of a similar drone from Festo
• Kickstarter: someone collects on a 3D-cartoon series , someone - on his socks , and someone has already managed to get disappointed in him
• ISteve's comedy about Steve Jobs is available for free to watch.

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Digest from last week .
Material prepared by dersmoll and alekskorovin