This week's hot projects and links you must read.

• Nicolas Gallagher (@necolas) describes what his famous normalize.css does and how it works: http://nicolasgallagher.com/about-normalize-css/

• Matthew Wilcox (@MattWilcox) explains how to preserve vertical rythm with CSS and jQuery on his .net-Magazine article: http://www.netmagazine.com/tutorials/preserving-vertical-rhythm-css-and-jquery

• Chromium Developer Tools experiments are now easily accessible via "Enable Developer Tools experiments" in chrome://flags in the last chromium build featuring ShadowDOM, IndexedDB etc. https://plus.google.com/100132233764003563318/posts/7pbJUZCGk8U

• HTML5 gets a new spec called "High Resolution Time" which is now in Editor's Draft: http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webperf/raw-file/tip/specs/HighResolutionTime/Overview.html

• We finally can expect CSS3 animations and transitions in Opera very soon: https://plus.google.com/115203843155141445032/posts/VFCx8KnhiSF

• If you work with HTML5's Cache Manifest you probably will validate that. Here's the tool by (@fhemberger): http://manifest-validator.com/

• A simple design pattern for feature detection with non-dependant Modernizr support: http://blog.joelambert.co.uk/2012/02/22/a-simple-design-pattern-for-feature-detection-with-non-dependant-modernizr-support/ And also read the problems expected with this approach in comment by Malte Ubl: https://plus.google.com/113127438179392830442/posts/b3NMDCQs7H9

• Fontsquirrel offers a webfont generator to convert your Desktop fonts into webfont-formats incl. SVG, WOFF, EOT and advanced settings: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator

• The NewYorkTimes published an article about performance on websites and the impact: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/technology/impatient-web-users-flee-slow-loading-sites.html

• Elliot Jay Stocks (@elliotjaystocks) was part of the "responsive summit" in London last week. Here's the summary: http://elliotjaystocks.com/blog/responsive-summit/

• Comparison table of current Digital Publishing-Tools by me: http://anselmh.github.com/Publishing-please/tools/