Apple announced a new HTML5 demo site. The site features all sorts of HTML5 demo projects, with the video demo coming right at the top of the list. There are demos on transitions, typography and more. Viewable in Safari, naturally. (Insert snark here.) At the bottom of the page, there’s a subtly placed link to [...]
Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 HTML5 Pack is a free extension. Sorry, it only runs on CS5—can’t retrofit older versions of Dreamweaver. Togetherville: Walled Garden Social Networking for the Younger Set. There have been social networks for young children before, but this one is making news right now. I’m wondering what educators will do with this new [...]
Need a laugh? How to Successfully Educate Your Clients on Web Development at Smashing Magazine is really funny. Who moved my Enter key? from Know IT describes the role muscle memory plays in keyboarding. Personally, I’m still waiting for Mac and Windows to agree on the location and function of the Ctrl/Cmd keys. Moving from [...]
With typical hyperbole, the news of late has been filled with headlines like “Flash is dying” and “Apple kills Adobe Flash.” Well, here’s a headline that shows that Adobe hasn’t been asleep at the wheel in quite the manner all the iPad prognosticators thought: Flash CS5 with export to HTML5 Canvas. While we’re talking about [...]
The past few days there have been hundreds of stories about the release of the iPad. Stories about standing in line to buy it, stories about why it’s a great product, stories about why it’s not a great product, stories about why you should buy one, stories about why you shouldn’t buy one. It’s a [...]
Whenever you use :hover, also use :focus from 456 Berea Street explains why this is an accessibility issue. Apple came out with some new product this week. Maybe you heard about it. I think it made the news. Okay—seriously, amid all the posturings and opinions about why the iPad was a great thing or a [...]
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
From the don’t you love to speculate about the iPad rumors (or iPad competition) department, here’s news about Qualcomm’s Multi-Fold Device and about the future of the iSlate and Magic Slate names, and a story speculating about Verizon which would affect both the iPhone and the iPad. At CERN, scientists managed to create mini-versions of [...]
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
ATMac tells about Accessing the iPad: Mouthsticks and Styluses with some tips for how a user with limited mobility can work the device. It’s useful to also read ATMac’s post Accessibility and the iPad: First Impressions. In the category of “stuff I didn’t know you could do but it sounds really great and I want [...]
Thursday, January 28, 2010
(A shorter version of this article posted at BlogHer.) Whether Apple’s announcement of the tablet dubbed iPad made you long for one, scoff at how unnecessary they are, or crack jokes about the choice of name, you have to admit it was a huge announcement. In Internet terms alone, the number of tweets as the [...]
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