The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of IT and web development for the last week No. 56 (May 4 - 10, 2013)
We offer to your attention another selection with links to news, interesting materials and useful resources.
This week there was a MAX conference from Adobe, where the company, apart from demonstrating its products, made some rather important announcements. For example, Adobe Creative Suite 7 will not be and all new features will now be available only from the cloud through a Creative Cloud subscription. Fireworks all . Also, Adobe will release hardware solutions.
May 9 is celebrated not only Victory Day. A year ago, Jennison Asuncion and Joe Devon organized the first Global Accessibility Awareness Day, which was dedicated to digital accessibility, because people with heightened needs are also active users of the Internet. However, creating a website or online service is not all thinking about it. In order to touch the accessibility of the web, it is proposed to drop the mouse for several hours, use screen readers, VoiceOver and special features of mobile devices and OS for surfing the web.
Legendary CSS Zen Garden celebrates its tenth anniversary and announces the restart. About the nuances of the return of the project, you can read an interview with Dave Shea 
. Also, it is impossible not to mention a competition that is close in ideology: Results of js1k are the top 10 works for 2013
Google and Time launched a project that made it possible to see how the surface of the Earth has changed over the past 28 years. Well, and a few short news from Google: Google Maps redesign , paid Youtube channels , Trends Map user preferences visualization
Anyone who at least occasionally goes online, leaves his “digital fingerprints” on the Web and, in time, essentially forms a dossier on himself. Various scammers and robbers, recruitment agencies, special services and law enforcement agencies are especially pleased with such a dossier. On the techniques of cleaning information about yourself, you can read in this article.
We offer you a documentary video on how the largest Internet archive works. In it, founder Brewster Cale talks about the digitization of books, films, audio recordings and websites, as well as how the archive functions, setting an ambitious goal - digitizing the entire spectrum of human knowledge.
Recently, Mozilla developers have been working overproductively, developing and implementing new technologies for the benefit of the modern web. For example, take WebRTC: the video chat embedded on the basis of P2P technologies and WebRTC has already been submitted . By the way, in the new version of Firefox this technology will be activated by default. Also, the technical director of Mozilla Corporation introduced ORBX.js - a video codec comparable to H.264, implemented entirely in JavaScript.
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Digest from last week .
Material prepared by dersmoll and alekskorovin
Hot seven
 | Adobe MAX 2013 |
 | Global Accessibility Awareness Day |
 | CSS Zen Garden |
. Also, it is impossible not to mention a competition that is close in ideology: Results of js1k are the top 10 works for 2013 | Timelapse |
 | School paranoid : delete personal data from the Internet |
 | Internet Archive |
 | Mozilla and web development |
Web development
- Richard Stallman warned W3C against incorporating DRM into HTML5 standards
- Mozilla developers presented embedded video chat sites based on P2P technologies and WebRTC
- W3C Consortium Begins Standardizing DRM Tools for HTML5 Content
- Creating and installing a simple application for Firefox OS
- About HTML5 canvas by Molly Holzschlag
- Facebook developers ask Firefox to add WebP support
- 8 HTML5 Web Animation Tools
- 7 tools for creating HTML5 sites from Adobe
- How to prevent duplicate downloads for responsive images
- HTTP / 2.0 Presentation
- Adept - the adaptive JPG Compressor
- Free eBook by Smashing Magazine
- Adaptive menu ready for Retina displays
- Create HTML5 and CSS3 contact form for dummies
- Popular templates, stylesheets, libraries and boilerplates , summarized in one table
- Updated Chrome DevTools info: Mobile emulation , Debugging JavaScript , snippets , Managing application storage
CSS
- CSS Zen Garden celebrates its tenth anniversary and announces the restart. Interview with Dave Shea about the return of the project
- CSS Animate Effects that you can learn from Animate.css
- The HTML Email Boilerplate - for those who typeset letters, and still do not know about this extremely useful thing.
- CSS Modal - modal windows on pure CSS
- Adobe's future CSS vision with demos
- Methods for modifying objects in OOCSS (@extend: A Fool's Gold)
- About the importance of creating documentation for CSS code
- Creating accessible buttons with icons
- Disappearing laws: selector: empty
- Collection of page transition effects
Javascripts
- Results js1k: top 10 works for 2013
- Technical Director of Mozilla Corporation introduced ORBX.js - a video codec comparable to H.264, implemented entirely in JavaScript
- Meet CoffeeScript
- Features or “Why I love JavaScript” : Closures, Prototyping and Context
- jsdares - make your own games by learning javascript programming
- sharrre - jQuery plugin that allows you to write your own social sharing widget
- jresponsive - super smooth animation layout on jQuery
- Two.js - we draw in 2D using technologies: svg, canvas, webgl
- fartscroll.js - script-jokes that trigger the sound of gas release when scrolling the page scroll
- Opeen Peer and WebRTC
- Top libraries for working with graphics
- toastr - notification messages
- ExplainJS - convenient viewing of the commented code
- is-near - calculation of the element of the page closest to the cursor
Browsers
- Mozilla organization demanded to stop masking spyware under Firefox
- New Firefox Cookie Policy
- ADATA will distribute the Chrome browser on its flash drives
- A little about the new features of IE11
- Creating Internet Explorer 10 , the perfect browser for touch
- Briefly about future versions of Firefox
news
- Adobe will not sell Photoshop , but will be distributed by subscription, just
announced new versions of Adobe Photoshop and other programs Creative Cloud .
This news triggered a reaction from Hitler and
heated discussions on reddit .
At the same time, Jeffrey Zeldman talks about the positive changes in Adobe
Throwing oil on fire news of the future for Adobe Fireworks .
Adobe will release hardware solutions - Google: Timelapse : a project from Google and Time, showing how the planet has changed in 30 years, the upcoming redesign of Google Maps , Youtube launches paid channels , from $ 0.99 per month, and YouTube presented the Trends Map : visualization of user preferences on the map
- Facebook intends to launch Graph Search worldwide in the coming months.
- Amazon is developing a smartphone with a 3D screen.
- Microsoft: Microsoft was able to implement 100 million copies of Windows 8 , but recognized its new OS as a mistake . So we are waiting for the Windows Blue build of which is scheduled for release in June. Also, Microsoft reported doubling the number of downloaded applications since the launch of WP 8, and 250 million users registered with SkyDrive
- Bing calls to stop using “out of habit” Google , publishing the results of research conducted during the Bing It On campaign
- Quantum Internet has been working secretly for 2 years
- Analytics: the share of panels with a resolution of Full HD and higher for laptops will reach 15% this year , in addition, manufacturers of laptops and monitors are planning to release products with Ultra HD screens
- Tablets overtake PC until the end of the year
- Baidu has become China's largest video platform.
- Facebook will launch video ads in the tapes
- Apple ranked sixth in the Fortune 500 , and Facebook became the first social network in the ranking
- Apple can buy Intel: how, why and why
- Digital Accessibility Day on the Web: GAAD 2013 , Celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day , and how to experience web accessibility on yourself
Services
- froont.com - service for creating responsive web design
- GitHub ArchiveRoom - look at your GitHub archive in 3D
Demo
- CSS3 animation from Treehouse
- Data visualization service CanIUse
- ClippingMagic - alpha version of the service that will help clear the photo from the background
- Thimble - under development Photoshop and Illustrator plugin
- Playing the mandolin with the keys
Sites with interesting design and functionality
- Popular sites: then and now
- puma.com/mobium/ - video synchronized with elements displaying additional information
- adobe-webplatform.imtqy.com/custom-filters-demo-travel-app - a demo site from Adobe developers with interesting effects and non-standard navigation.
- onlinedepartment.nl - scroll effects, sprite and JS-animation
- thebuildfilm.com - site dedicated to the film about the creators of motorcycles with stylized effects
- wistia.com - simple but elegant animation
- fryreadsonegin.com - Eugene Onegin by Stephen Fry
- 360langstrasse.sf.tv - a dynamic website with traffic emulation on cars
Design
- Interesting UI design method: The User is Drunk
- A selection of sites with background video
- Interview with Erika Easy (illustrator)
- Typography history in 5 minutes
- Updates from Adobe: Synchronize fonts on the desktop , Adobe contributes technology to FreeType
- Transfer vector images from Illustrator to Photoshop (easy way)
- Five dozen shades of gray in web design
- Narrow attention: how to focus on typography
- Stop motion video with a brief typography history
- Saul Bass logo design : past and present. Saul Bass's average logo life is 34 years
- Logos that used mobile phone images
- Redesign TaskRabbit
- Eight reasons to go flat
- Cool package design
- Sites for choosing color combinations of web design
- Retro fonts that can enhance the design impression
- Designing For A Maturing Android
A selection of free designer cookies
- A selection of sites with free ui-source
- Facebook Brand Assets - logos, images, page elements and other design kits for Facebook
- Where can I find free graphics
- Textures: envelopes with polyethylene , more than two dozen textures and brushes with different themes
- Fonts: a dozen top icon-based web fonts , a dozen fresh fonts: from Idealist Sans to Autour One
- Sources: minimalism business cards , traditional business cards , online store interface components , various UI components in PSD format (from buttons and calendars to style guide with a set of all interface elements) , a set of vector characters from Greek mythology
- Brushes for photoshop in the form of roses
- A collection of templates for creating wireframes for various programs and services
- Free fonts collection for April 2013
Entertaining
- How does the largest archive of the Internet (video)
- School paranoid : delete personal data from the Internet
- Results of comparing the quality of the code of open and proprietary projects
- Google Glass: as it turned out , the devices are quite suitable for augmented reality, and it is quite possible that they will soon be able to work without being tied to a smartphone, Alex Mas on Google Glass , gestures management and the development of Internet platforms (video)
- Motorola as the fifth wheel of Google
- Startup: Casetop will turn your smartphone into a laptop
- How Apple Killed Startup AppGratis
- What was discussed on iForum-2013: a selection of reports from the conference
- Thoughts on the clouds
- The coolest and most terrifying bionic robots
- 7 cases of layoffs due to social networks . What you need to know so as not to spoil your career.
- What is shocking Russian startups in the Valley? Optimism losers.
- Torah Rehabilitation
- Six promising ideas for future phones
- 10 things to know about Firefox OS
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Digest from last week .
Material prepared by dersmoll and alekskorovin
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