The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of ay for the last week
We bring to your attention the next selection with links to news, interesting materials and useful resources.
The penetration of the Internet offline is becoming more apparent. This time the search engine in RuNet pleases with its initiative!
It seems that the demonstration from Mozilla, which showed the possibility of creating video chat in the browser, is in the same stream with the development of larger companies. Now the direction of activity in this area and the giant from Redmond has already been announced.
The program, which was the main cause of the headache of the global community of layout designers, and periodically supplying pharmacists with a well-established clientele, is finally becoming history! This can not but rejoice and inspire everyone who is firsthand familiar with the words HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
It seems that the problem of frozen tabs has reached its reasonable limit, and made Mozilla developers take care of including much-needed functionality in the default browser!
The benefits of using the SPDY protocol are becoming more apparent to users of advanced browsers. Naturally, the hosting requirements should also be taken into account.
Laptop users formed the most popular resolution, moving gold 1024x768, which seemed unshakable for many years, in second place!
After a stunning Instagram purchase, analysts rushed to the list of startups, which today can cause no less interest.
Link to last week’s digest.
Material prepared dersmoll and alekskorovin
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Yandex.Money has got its own bank card
The penetration of the Internet offline is becoming more apparent. This time the search engine in RuNet pleases with its initiative!
Skype will work in any HTML5 web browser
It seems that the demonstration from Mozilla, which showed the possibility of creating video chat in the browser, is in the same stream with the development of larger companies. Now the direction of activity in this area and the giant from Redmond has already been announced.
Internet Explorer 6. Farewell review.
The program, which was the main cause of the headache of the global community of layout designers, and periodically supplying pharmacists with a well-established clientele, is finally becoming history! This can not but rejoice and inspire everyone who is firsthand familiar with the words HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
Firefox 14 plans to enable Flash content activation only after a click
It seems that the problem of frozen tabs has reached its reasonable limit, and made Mozilla developers take care of including much-needed functionality in the default browser!
The real "Internet accelerator" is already possible to install on the server - Add SPDY support to your Apache server with mod_spdy
The benefits of using the SPDY protocol are becoming more apparent to users of advanced browsers. Naturally, the hosting requirements should also be taken into account.
1366 × 768px bypasses 1024 × 768px in the list of most popular screen resolutions
Laptop users formed the most popular resolution, moving gold 1024x768, which seemed unshakable for many years, in second place!
10 startups that can buy for $ 1 billion
After a stunning Instagram purchase, analysts rushed to the list of startups, which today can cause no less interest.
news
- Google joins the big cloud storage race and plans to launch Google Drive in a week . Among the goodies - everyone at 5 gigabytes for free
- If you are a fan of Microsoft and follow the release of their products, then you will probably be interested in the big plans of Microsoft for the release of Office 15, IE10 and their other key products
- Advertising Microsoft Office 15 will tell you about the benefits of a small office cloud and that Google Docs are not one.
- Microsoft said there will be only 3 consumer editions of Windows 8 - Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro, and Windows 8 RT. No more Starter, Home, Pro and Ultimate!
- Facebook plans to create a “personalized” email , which will undoubtedly please active users of this social network.
- Maybe not everyone noticed, but the profile photos on Facebook Timeline got a little bigger .
- Facebook is back to its university origins - schools will be able to create their own private groups .
- Are you planning a successful Facebook account, but sorry to lose information? Use the “Download Your Information” feature, which has been recently updated .
- Google will buy .google and .youtube domains - we are waiting for replenishment in the addresses of their services and the dominance of custom channels with their domain names.
- Google continues to increase momentum, significantly increasing revenue and profits in the first quarter of 2012 .
- He cast it and threw it: Google sells Motorola - saturated with patents, Google refuses Motorola Mobility.
- In the footsteps of Bathhert about the new design of Google+ - as it turned out, empty areas in the new design were made specifically .
- WordPress uses every second of the TOP 100 world blogs , which is not surprising for such a popular platform.
- Adobe never tires of improving its products - After Effects CS6 works better with memory and Illustrator files
- The legend of computer technology is a big date - on April 16, the Apple II personal computer turned 35
Browsers
- The Chinese hybrid browser Maxthon is actively developing, improving not only the interface, but also the engine. Maxthon, A New King Of HTML5
- Pre-installed browsers without the possibility of changing to alternative ones are the evil and pain of all the layout of the world. IE leads among browsers in the daytime, Google Chrome in the evenings
- Date Picker is now available in Chrome Canary and Chromium.
- New functionality in Google Chrome Canary will make life easier for mobile site developers.
Sites with interesting design and functionality
- glamour.biz - thematic site with quality illustrations
- campbellharrison.co.uk - site with dynamic block animation
- zxcvbnmnbvcxz.com - thematic site with parallax
- loisjeans.com - site with a custom block structure
- biamar.com.br - a site with full-size backgrounds and preload page elements
- bobadilium.com - a one-page site with different colors
- michel-doudin.com - custom implementation of site navigation
- www.version-four.com - interesting implementation of coming soon pages
- selagroup.com - unusual interactive site of Sela Group
- ecodazoo.com - flash site with excellent use of 3D and illustrations
- mikimottes.com - creative portfolio of illustrator and animator Mickey Mottes, made on a flash
- soft.se - flash site with reasonable use of 3D
- razvangarofeanu.com - a nice one-page portfolio site with a nice design
- your-majesty.com - a dynamic flash site of Your Majesty creative agency
- colorz.fr - a site perfectly implemented using Ajax and featuring thoughtful guidance effects
- thebarrelhouseflat.com - a stylish retro-styled the Barrel House Flat restaurant site
Design
- Starbucks, a Seattle-based coffee lover, has decided to share a complete, high-quality style guide on starbucks.com , its pretty website with responsive design.
- The principle of the golden ratio in web design this time is considered on concrete examples, with specific pixel sizes.
- Why is infographic meaningful?
- About what to pay attention to make forms on the site more usable, told us from the Singapore design portal
- A small collection of mainstream designs for live mobile sites
- A selection of sites where the use of stretched full-screen background photos has taken root
- Some tips for managing PSD files well
- Black and white versions of logos make it possible to concentrate on the perception of forms, which actually collected in one article
- Spring came, bringing with it the long-awaited green color, which turned out to be one of the main in the design of 30 selected sites
- Watercolors can be painted not only in albums, but also in pixel space, the authors suddenly discovered, finding examples of the use of digital watercolor effects on many sites
- It's never too late to learn - apparently this was guided by the creators of a selection of lessons on creating fairly creative effects in Photoshop
A selection of free designer cookies
- To help the creators of diptychs, triptychs, and N-tims, the Swedish wedding photographer Raymond Trost decided to create Tych Panel 2 for Photoshop , and made it free! Now creating collages with photos placed with the same indentation becomes more enjoyable.
- Offline Instagram counterparts, but simply a selection of Actions for Photoshop for processing photos
- PSD-shki with buttons filled with textures from Jacob Gube
Demo
- Disc Experiment - interesting experiments in canvas.
- Visual representation of the planet’s population density implemented in canvas
- HTML5 Canvas 3D Sphere - Learn how to create a three-dimensional sphere.
Services
- CSS arrow please! - a service that will help you save time when creating tooltips.
- Remy Sharp's jsBin service has been updated .
- A unified set of useful services that can make life easier for web developers - from the preloader generator to the icon search service.
- A tool from Breezi will help you get a number of tools designed to edit web pages on the fly.
Development
- Flickr front-end engineer Stephen Woods's article on how to create mobile- friendly lightboxes correctly - Build a lightbox for a responsive HTML5 touch interface
- Shi Chuan's voluminous article on building fast and responsive websites - Building fast and responsive websites
- New Mail.Ru Portal Main - a detailed article on the portal redesign.
- A selection of articles and resources by Paul Irish for those who want to delve into the nuances of web development Round-up of Web Browser Internals Resources
- One of Dan Cederholm’s latest CSS3 talks - Dan Cederholm - The CSS3 Experience (Live at An Event Apart)
- The current state of support for new HTML5 form elements by different browsers .
- 7 reasons why it is better to use SVG instead of Canvas .
- jquerythisplugin.com is a relatively new resource collecting useful jquery plugins.
- In this article, the authors analyzed options for loading images using various options for media queries .
- About how to add the ability to automatically upload images of the right size to WordPress depending on the screen size.
- Smashing Magazine has finally published an article about BEM . In the comments to the article, you can participate in heated discussions.
CSS
- CSS optimizer is a service from Yandex developers that will help optimize your styles.
- Interesting text effects implemented using CSS Animations .
- Lea Verou has proposed a new way to vertically center using flexbox + margin fallback .
- Funny effects for the list, appearing during its scrolling .
- Virtual DJ - dynamic effects implemented using CSS3 animations .
- A classic locomotive built on pure CSS3 .
- If you want to diversify your photo gallery with interesting effects, perhaps this one will suit you .
- Beercamp: fun and slightly buggy CSS 3D experiments .
Javascripts
- Bacon is a jQuery plugin that allows you to randomly bend text around any objects .
- A selection of 10 jQuery plugins that emulate a countdown clock .
- A selection of 10 jQuery plugins that implement analog or digital clocks .
Entertaining
- Interview with Yuri Artyukh: Smartme - organization of workshops
- What the recruiters who study your resume look at during the first 6 seconds .
- Google has opened the vacancy of the author of the "doodles" - do not miss your chance! :)
- Sergey Brin called Facebook and Apple the main enemies of the free Internet
- "Truth in Numbers?" - A documentary about Wikipedia (video) and the change in Read Only culture, Read Write culture.
- Social networks, as always, have taken everyone away - The future of the media, according to experts (infographics) .
- Instagram visual story: from zero to a billion .
- Infographic confirming and explaining the hegemony of WordPress in the CMS world .
Entertainment
- Comic: Origin of Species
- What Google would look like in the 80s
- What Twitter would have looked like in the 80s
- What Facebook would have looked like in the 90s
- Video about how you feel after selling Instagram for a billion dollars .
Link to last week’s digest.
Material prepared dersmoll and alekskorovin