By Mindy McAdams
You will see something cool here if you upgrade your Flash player.
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). [...]
This slideshow provides a really clear overview of what HTML5 includes, why it’s exciting, and when browser support can be expected.
The slideshow was produced by Derek Bender.
I was looking at this Iran protest slideshow from The New York Times today. It does not have audio, and so I would normally call it a gallery — not a slideshow. But it is carefully captioned, with factual material that goes beyond what we see in the photos, and there is a story of [...]
This year I’ve been experiencing some unexpected problems with viewing video in Flash, and after a conversation today with our college Web admin, Craig Lee, we think we’ve got it sussed out.
To cut to the chase, the problem arises because more Web video is now being distributed in the H.264 format, and some people have [...]
I’ve been spending a lot of time updating our advanced Web design course. While it’s known around my college as “the Flash course,” we actually spend the first five weeks on CSS and XHTML. Students have already completed a prerequisite in which they learned the basics and built a small Web site from scratch. However, [...]
The New York Times has put up a wonderful package of Obama’s Election Night speech, with a dynamic transcript and a useful navigation bar. Listen and watch again.
I updated my blogroll this morning. It needed some culling, as some blogs I used to read are no longer being updated. I added a few new ones too. Not necessarily new blogs, but new to my list.
Yesterday I got a question from an audience of journalists: How can we find these blogs about online [...]
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