by Ardrich
September 29, 2011 in News Roundup
The presentation website Slideshare is ditching Flash and reformulating its content into HTML5.
The move will make Slideshare content better available to Apple devices as well as more accessible to search engines.
The HTML5 revamp also means a speed upgrade for the site and, as part of the work, Slideshare is also boosting its metadata.
by Ardrich
February 15, 2011 in Events
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by Ardrich
September 8, 2010 in News Roundup
Marking the company’s 12th birthday, Google’s homepage yesterday featured a ‘bouncing balls’ doodle, showing off their programmers’ skills and sending a message out to the online community.
Reacting to the hovering of the cursor, the doodle is said to consist of lots of pieces of a web page, each using CSS3, an emerging standard which the company has been eager to push along with HTML5.
by Ardrich
July 22, 2010 in News Roundup, Uncategorized
Gary Robson from North East digital company Industrial Strength, outlined some of the possibilities and difficulties of using HTML5 from a web developer’s point of view.
“We haven’t really used it in any of our projects yet because the browser support simply isn’t wide enough yet (usually down to Internet Explorer)”, he said.
“One of the frustrations of web development is that we usually end up standardising on yesterday’s technology in order to ensure a wide potential userbase and that we aren’t cutting off a large share of possible site visitors to a clients site through compatibility.”
by Ardrich
July 22, 2010 in Features
The debate is starting to get confusing. It’s like schoolyard bickering all over again. Apple doesn’t like Adobe, Google doesn’t like Apple, Adobe and Google are buddying up, YouTube is stuck in the middle. And Steve Jobs rants at everyone.
The latest development in the HTML5 vs. Flash debate was YouTube rewriting its mobile site entirely in HTML5 – after criticising it in their official blog. This was happy news for iPhone and iPad users, but the rest of us are confused. Who’s in the right and what’s the future of these web technologies?
by petehindle
June 10, 2010 in Blog, News Roundup
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Developers at Revshock have created a way of using Html5 and Javascript to show Flash .swf files. The technology, called Smokescreen, is part of a general move towards open-source technologies that replace the processor-intensive Flash.
by Ardrich
June 7, 2010 in News Roundup
iPad apps are inconsistent and have low feature discoverability, with frequent user errors due to accidental gestures, Danish usability guru Jacob Nielsen slams.
According to the Guardian’s technology blogger Jack Schofield, Nielsen, who has just published a 93-page report on iPad usability, was expecting more of the device.
Nielsen said: “There were really a lot of usability problems in this first-generation of iPad applications. It’s often quite difficult for people to discover what they have to do because the options are not very visible.”
by Ardrich
May 22, 2010 in News Roundup
Google’s first ever interactive doodle, marking the 30th anniversary of the legendary Pac-Man game, is written entirely in HTML, CSS and Javascript, the Guardian reports.
The search giant’s home page was turned into a fully playable game on Friday with the pizza-shaped Pac-Man making its way around a maze spelling out ‘Google’.
