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Is This Really The Future of Magazines or Why Didn’t They Just Use HTML 5?
The Wired Magazine iPad app, in my opinion, is a pretty big UI and IxD win. It’s easily the best-designed magazine to come out of the App Store since the iPad’s launch, and it is, for the most part, a joy to use. But it’s built by packaging up two PNGs for each page (one landscape, one portrait), and frankly, that’s just an idiotic and incredibly inelegant way of doing it.
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Smokescreen: Flash Player in Javascript
A pretty amazing piece of work, this JS Flash player looks far more advanced than the Gordon project which floated around awhile back. It’s apparently going to be open source, as well. I’m not sure something like this will work as a long-term solution, but it may be an effective way to get many legacy SWFs to play on platforms that don’t support Flash. If nothing else, it’s a technical marvel, for sure.
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Video: Panorama of deck view
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Living room view 2
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Den/office view
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Living space
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Deck and view
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Living room view
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Living room view
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Master bath
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Master Bedroom
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Guest bathroom
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Kitchen
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iPhone Timeline: Media Account vs. Affidavit
Nice piece by my cousin Brian Ford detailing differences between media accounts and the recently-released affidavit in the saga of the lost fourth-generation iPhone prototype.
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Filling in the Gaps
Props to Snook for having on of the few rational takes on Flash. Much of the web standards community act as zealots when it comes to Flash, and it is, quite frankly, an embarrassing show of just how little they really know about the entirety of web development.
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HTML5 Readiness
Very cool CSS-powered infographic by Paul Irish and Divya Manian.
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Flash Works On Touch-Based Devices (Video)
Adobe Platform Evangelist Lee Brimelow shows how Flash on touch devices handles mouseover (hover) events. It handles them just the same as Safari on iPhone does — it dispatches a mouseover event on the first touch, and a click event on the second.
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Facebook’s Open Graph Protocol from a Web Developer’s Perspective
Really great take on why the Facebook Graph API is exciting and different than anything before it.
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Disastrous Flash demo heaps further embarrassment on Adobe
The Telegraph writes up the FlashCamp Seattle debacle with a typically divisive headline. Of all the publications that have ever mentioned my name, I think The Telegraph is probably the most widely-distributed. Crazy.
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Veerle’s blog 3.0
A fresh design from Veerle, who is always one worth watching!
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Spring cleaning — 12 things the world should toss out
A pretty great list from the Washington Post.
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Mark Boulton: Back To Reading Feeds
Mark’s experience of NetNewsWire for iPad getting him back into habit of easing RSS/Atom feeds perfectly parallels mine. I hadn’t read feeds ia year or so, and now I’m back to doing it every day, from the comfort of my couch.
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Jeremy Keith: The format of The Long Now
I’m sorry, but the idea of HTML as a universal data storage format is pretty ridiculous. If the “data” in question is blog posts, maybe. But what if your data is tables and tables of numbers? Or heaps of video? Or needs to represent complex relationships between objects? No serious company would ever attempt to store all of their data in HTML, and neither should you.
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On the Android Flash demo at FlashCamp Seattle
Yesterday, I moderated a panel discussion on HTML5 and Flash at FlashCamp Seattle, a nice little event put together by the smart people at Universal Mind. It was a good time. For a web standards-oriented designer/developer like myself, it was cool to see how the other half lives and what drives them. There are a lot of good and talented people in the Flash community, and it was awesome to get to meet some of them. The panel went well, and I’d like to put together a blog entry on the conclusions the panelists were able to draw — but not today. Today, I want to talk about something else that happened at FlashCamp Seattle.
In the opening keynote, Ryan Stewart, a Flash Platform evangelist at Adobe, demoed Flash Player 10.1 running on his Nexus One phone. When I realized he was going to show it, I got excited — I’ve been wanting to see how well Flash really works on a phone for years.
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Fraser Speirs: Back In
I think Fraser nails it, here.
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60 Minutes: Conan O’Brien
Conan’s first TV interview since being ousted from NBC.
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Ben Ward: Understand The Web
A pretty great piece by Ben Ward discussing “web apps,” and how much of what is being talked about aren’t really “web apps” at all, because they’re a very different beast than the “interconnected bits of information” that make up the web. I think it’s fair to say that “web app” may not be the best name for these things — although I’m not sure what to call them, instead. I’m in full agreement with most of what Ben says — but this last line just doesn’t fly with me: “The idea of undermining the core function of the web to achieve that is detestable.” I fail to see how building native-like apps using web technologies “undermines the core function of the web” at all. To me, it simply adds another function. Just as Cocoa apps aren’t part of the web, but rather tangential to it, I would say native-like apps that live in the web are also not part of the web, but tangential to it. They sit alongside it, not hurting the web one bit.
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Jeff Croft
I’m a digital product designer and developer in Seattle, WA. I currently work with Simply Measured, and recently co-founded Lendle, a Kindle book sharing service.
Some of my past clients include Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Copious, The New York Review of Books, Django, The Lawrence Journal-World, and the University of Washington.
I’ve authored two books on web and interactive design and spoken at dozens of conferences around the world.
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