Flash Player on mobile phones is dead. Long live HTML5!

by Design for Digital

I previously wrote an article on whether the iPhone (or should I have said Apple) and Flash (Adobe) would work in harmony. I felt it was necessary to update you properly on the developments in the last day regarding the long drawn-out sage of Apple vs. Adobe.

On Adobe’s blog yesterday, Danny Winokur (Vice President and General Manager of Interactive Development at Adobe) announced that:

“We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new mobile device configurations (chipset, browser, OS version, etc.) following the upcoming release of Flash Player 11.1 for Android and BlackBerry PlayBook.”

Incredibly, Adobe have now conceded that “HTML5 [is] the best solution for creating and deploying content in the browser across mobile platforms”, meaning their Flash Player will soon become obsolete on mobile devices.

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Are we going Gaga about Google?

by Design for Digital

“The web is what you make of it” – this is according to the statement at the end of Google’s new ‘Chrome’ internet browser advert, featuring Lady Gaga. But really, is the web what ‘we’ make of it, or how one web giant makes it for us?

With Google’s prominence in the world of online search, it was a natural progression for them to join the internet browser market. Google search was directly available in earlier IE and Safari browsers and they must have felt they were vulnerable to ‘default search engine’ browser changes brought around by Microsoft’s ‘Bing’ search.

Chrome was a new lease of internet life for many users in 2008. You could simply search Google directly from the address bar, without an independent form, which also meant users could find websites they may have mis-typed – great for business! With the growing popularity of Gmail, you could also see email counts from your browser window and visit your inbox in one-click. Continue reading “Are we going Gaga about Google?” →


HTML5 and CSS3 – who needs a 3DTV?

by Design for Digital

There really are some great effects you can achieve using HTML 5 and CSS3 at the moment. I stumbled across a great 3D animation using this combination recently and thought I should share it with you.

As you can see, when you hover over the image on CSS 3D Meninas, the backgrounds and foregrounds all move independently giving the impressions of a three dimensional picture. Who needs a 3DTV when you can use HTML5 and CSS3! There maybe limited applications for this technique but it really is a clever way of interacting with the browser. In the past, this could only have been achieved using Flash tools. It’s great to know we have a choice when it comes to producing animations now. Continue reading “HTML5 and CSS3 – who needs a 3DTV?” →