By Mindy McAdams
You will see something cool here if you upgrade your Flash player.
With all this talk about the so-called death of Adobe Flash, the future of HTML5, etc., I thought I should take a closer look at jQuery. This post is intended to give you an overview and help you decide whether you too should take a closer look.
My first thought is that if you have weak [...]
I would call this past 12 months “the year I re-learned ActionScript.” After a semester of teaching Adobe Flash CS4 and ActionScript 3.0 to journalism/design students, I’ve got a better handle on both. I’m not too worried about CS5 changing too much — CS4 was the radical, once-in-a-decade (I hope) reworking of the foundations of [...]
Last week I tried to summarize key points about HTML5, the emerging standard that will affect the way Web pages — and other digital media — are created in the near future.
There were two aspects of HTML5 that I mostly left out. One is mobile (the interaction of HTML5 and the Internet on your phone). [...]
Yesterday I watched a documentary video I had TiVo’d earlier from the Sundance Channel:
Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight
Unfortunately it’s not yet available on Netflix (?!), even though it was released last May. I recommend that you file the title away so you remember to watch it later. It’s a very good example of documentary [...]
These are interactive news packages I’ve selected to show to journalism students as we discuss some of the capabilities of Adobe Flash. Many are very recent.
1. Motion
The first thing students learn to do in Flash is animation. Although a lot of animation is merely eye candy, it can help to tell the story more effectively.
The [...]
Have you seen the L.A. Times homicides map? I’m sure you’ve marveled at the New York Times homicides map, and perhaps you have also admired the Boston Globe homicides map. The L.A. map, however, has a lot (a lot!) of fine features that the others lack.
One of my students wrote a critique of the L.A. [...]
The other day I received an e-mail from someone with a programming background who’s interested in learning how to build journalism packages in Flash. He asked how to get started and whether I was planning to release a new edition of my 2005 book Flash Journalism: How to Create Multimedia News Packages.
First I directed him [...]
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