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New York Times releases ‘experimental’ HTML5 iPad app, puts Twitter trends front and center
The New York Times isn’t beyond a little “experimentation” — not when it comes to iPad apps, at least. The old gray lady today is showing off its “experimental” iPad web app, an HTML5-powered reading experience available to digital subscribers with its Web + Tablet and All Digital Access packages. The app’s got four ways to consume all the news that’s fit to digitize, including the Trending format, which offers up the past hour’s top 25 trending stories on Twitter and the more traditional Today’s Paper, which recalls those days when people used to get their news from dead trees. More info can be found in the press release after the break, and if you’re on an iPad, you can access the site via the source link below.
Flickr outs new Uploadr feature for image uploads: HTML5-based, drag-and-drop UI
If you’ll recall, it was only a few weeks ago when Flickr announced Aviary was replacing the vanished Picnik as the main photo-editing tool on the site. Now, continuing its ongoing makeover, the Yahoo-owned image hosting service is introducing yet another feature. Uploadr, as it’s very cleverly dubbed, is an HTML5 web apparatus, which Flickr says will make for a “completely new uploading experience.” There’s a few major attributes Uploadr brings to the table, including improvements in the speed department, a drag-and-drop UI and bigger file size limits for paid and free users. Flickr notes that folks will now see a boost in uploading speeds of up to 30 percent, while “some” international users may see a spike of somewhere between 50-60 percent. As for file sizes, the limits have been bumped to 50MB for Pro hogs and 30MB for those enjoying the freebies. Uploadr’s set to be rolling out over the “next couple of weeks,” and is currently offering browser support for Chrome, Safari and Firefox.
Firefox 14 Now Fitted With Built In HTML 5 Based PDF Reader
Mozilla has now started to integrate a native PDF reader into Firefox 14 versions. A new nightly build of Firefox 14 has been released over the weekend, which brings with it a new integrated PDF viewer within Firefox.
When a PDF is now opened in the Firefox 14 a browse tab is created and a toolbar appears at the top enabling you to go to a specific page, change the zoom level, print, download the PDF, or bookmark its current location.
Myriad’s Remarkz HTML 5 web annotation app hands-on (Video)
It wasn’t that long ago that Myriad gave us an exclusive sneak peek at its platform agnostic Android app emulator, Alien Dalvik 2.0. While we were there, the company gave us a glimpse of another project, called Remarkz, that piqued our interest. Remarkz is a slick little HTML 5 application that lets users annotate web pages with text and drawings and share the marked up pages via email, Facebook and Twitter. As opposed to using screen grab programs like Skitch or Jing, Remarkz keeps the web page links live and only requires adding a bookmark to get started. Additionally, a timeline feature lets you see when new notes are made on a page and who made them — giving it greater potential for use as a collaboration tool. True to Myriad form, it works on any platform (tablets, PCs and Macs) using any browser that supports HTML 5. It’s still in beta for now, but the app works pretty well despite a small bug here or there. Plus, given its egalitarian nature, Myriad hinted that we may see it on more screens (think big) in January at CES, which would up its cool quotient considerably. Interested? Check out a video walkthrough of the app after the break, and hit the source to start using it yourself.
Create Web Animation And Interaction Designs In HTML 5 With Adobe Edge
The latest web standards, HTML5 and CSS3 in conjunction with JavaScript have truly reduced the time and effort involved in creating graphic, text, and animation rich web sites. Using the powers of HTML5, you no longer have to manually write code for embedding multimedia content while CSS3 makes your web UI elements more flexible, robust, and importantly more easy to handle. If you’ve been looking for a web designing tool that allows you to take maximum benefit out of latest web standards without compelling you to manually enter code for each UI element, the freshly launched Adobe Edge is probably just what you need.
Adobe Edge has been particularly written for visual, web and interaction designers who often struggle with creating web motion and animated content using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript web standards. It’s basically a web motion and interaction design tool for creating animated content using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. While it incorporates all the basic tools to create, edit, tweak and design the web UI elements, it offers an intuitive animation choreographer to easily create and adjust animated content in your web page. Moreover, it doesn’t force you to start a new project from scratch, you can import your HTML file in it to include new UI compositions and tinker around with existing UI elements, such as, table, text styles, image shades, position, font, container alignment and more.
The main interface is divided into 3 sections. The left sidebar holds selected UI element composition tools, right side bar has all the main web UI element lists, including, shadow effects, images, text, whereas the bottom section contains the timeline editor to choreograph animations.
The Elements pane lets you show/hide selected element and lock it down to prevent further editing. When you select an element from the main screen, it immediately highlights it in Elements pane, making it easier to hide or lock it. When you hover mouse pointer over an item listed in Elements, it tells you class initials with name, so you can easily identify it in CSS file.
