Archive for the ‘HTML5’ Category
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
As the tech community continues its evolution to a universal standard of Web programming (think HTML5), the new world of mobile operating systems is already starting out completely fragmented.
Let’s say you decide to make an app. Well, you have to decide who you’re going to make it for. Because if you want your entire customer base to enjoy the fruits of your labor, you can’t just make it for Apple. (<– like that pun?)
Because Apple’s iPhone App Store sells 33 million App downloads each day. But Google’s Android App Store sells nearly 17 million a day. Plus Blackberry, Nokia, Palm and Microsoft. And your decision becomes not what kind of app are you developing, but who won’t get to use it.
Tags: android, app-store, blackberry, HTML5, iphone, Microsoft, mobile-marketing, nokia, palm
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Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
Google Translate has been improving to the point where, in the future, it may be a complete waste of time to even attempt learning a foreign language. Kidding, sort of. And now, Google’s Chrome browser has introduced a Speech Input feature to the stable release.
This support for the HTML5 speech input API means that web developers can now subscribe the user’s voice to text. A web page could use this feature, allowing the user to speak into their microphone, and transcribe and translate the text via their speech servers, before typing out the translation.
While, at first blush, it seems like this would be most handy via mobile phone – allowing for communication between those of different languages. But, I’m sure that companies are going to quickly come up with amazingly interesting uses of this new speech input functionality.
Tags: api, google-chrome, google-marketing, HTML5, mobile-marketing, speech-input
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Thursday, November 4th, 2010
Firefox 4, originally scheduled for a late 2010 release has now been delayed until early 2011. Not great news when the browser most eating into their market share, Chrome, is releasing new stable versions every 6 weeks.
Now, the reason for the delay is so that Firefox 4 can release major improvements, including an entire interface redesign, HTML5 support, multi-touch functionality and more. But, playing catch-up isn’t a great market position. And perhaps that’s why Mozilla is seeking to find their comparative advantage with their announcement of the “Chromeless” project.
This experimental project will allow Web developers to create their own browser interfaces, using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and more. Now, that’s the Mozilla we remember. The one that Web developers embrace, because it gives them more freedom than anyone else. And the ability to customize and create your very own Web browser is the very definition of freedom.
Tags: chrome, chromeless, firefox-4, HTML5, mozilla, website-design, website-marketing
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Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
Ever since Steve Jobs and Apple have publicly declared their support for HTML5, there have been a lot of voices defending Flash, including owning entity, Adobe.
To catch you up to speed, the hedge of this controversy is that Flash isn’t ideally suited for mobile technology. But Adobe believes that Flash and HTML5 can live side by side as the Web continues to evolve. And specifically, they argue that flash is still the best possible option for desktop computers. And yes, I think right now, most people would agree with that. But that’s the point. HTML5 works better on mobile, the next big evolution in Web design. So, why not just learn the language that’s going to work there, when it can work everywhere? Why keep two technologies going when one can do everything?
The reality is, the future is so hard to predict. The evolution of technology. The evolution of consumer use. So, picking winners is a gamble. And Apple is gambling – putting their money into HTML5′s basket.
Tags: Adobe, flash, HTML5, internet-marketing-consulting, mobile-marketing, steve-jobs
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Friday, September 24th, 2010
As we reported earlier this week, Microsoft has launched the beta version of Internet Explorer 9. Microsoft is clearly excited about how their search engine, Microsoft Bing, can take advantage of some of its new HTML5 capabilities. At this point, it looks like these new enhancements will be largely aesthetic.
The Bing homepage will look very cool using Internet Explorer 9. It utilizes HTML5 to replace the traditional Bing homepage image with a video or image that you can zoom in and out of.
The integrated Bing/IE 9 also offers smooth transitions from screen to screen, as you search. Image, text and video previews are bigger and bolder. And Bing’s IE9 “jump list” integrates Bing search categories directly from the Windows 7 taskbar.
Bing users should be able to preview these Internet Explorer 9 features later this month.
Tags: bing, HTML5, IE-9, Internet-Explorer-9, microsoft bing, search-engine-marketing-agency, Search-Engine-Optimization, windows-7
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
Let’s be honest. Internet Explorer has been winning the browser war for the past decade simply based on their first-to-market strategy. Most people learned on it. Most people stay with what they’ve learned.
But lately, Microsoft has become eager to embrace aesthetics and ease of use – targeting the average user and not just the programmer. And you can see that with Internet Explorer 9. They’re even releasing the new browser under the domain name, www.beautyoftheweb.com. They don’t want to be Grandpa Clunky anymore.
And with this new release, they just might change user opinion. Because reports are showing that not only is Internet Explorer 9 faster than IE 8, but faster than Mozilla Firefox as well. (IE 9 still loses in speed tests to Chrome, Safari and Opera.)
Users can now pin sites to the Windows 7 taskbar, just like the new Google Chrome allows. And your pinned sites can actually ping you back, when the site has been updated. Sort of like an in-dash Google Reader alternative? IE 9 also supports HTML5 and will be compatible with the latest state-of-the-art Web experiences as interactive media evolves. The one trick, you must have Windows 7 or Windows Vista with Service Pack 2 to run Internet Explorer 9. It is not compatible with Microsoft XP.
Tags: beauty-of-the-web, chrome, firefox, google-adwords-advertising, HTML5, IE-9, Internet-Explorer-9, Microsoft, opera, safari, Search-Engine-Optimization, windows-7
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Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Google has made it clear that, like Apple, they’re behind HTML5, especially for video and rich graphics in the browser.
Here’s why. Google Chrome teamed up with the band, Arcade Fire, and director Chris Milk to create a customized interactive video for the band’s song, “We Used to Wait.” Designed for Google Chrome, the site www.thewildernessdowntown.com can be viewed in any HTML5-compliant browser.
This experience is customized by the user typing in the address of the house they grew up in. Note: To make the most out of the experience, you need to type in an address that Google has Street View images of.
The video background then takes place in your neighborhood and ends by your house. It’s really cool. But, most surprising to me was the use of pop-up windows. The experience utilizes dozens of different windows to make the video. It works. And it’s cool. And it’s all timed with the song. But it kind of makes this new technology seem old school. Nonetheless, HTML5 looks like it’s going to have a beautiful future.
Tags: Apple, arcade-fire, chris-milk, Google, google-adwords-advertising, google-chrome, HTML5, Search-Engine-Optimization, the-wilderness-downtown
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Thursday, August 19th, 2010
It’s official. It now looks like Google has bought out companies in every single industry. With their recent video game company acquisitions, I think it’s safe to say that Google can now officially take over the world.
I’m being facetious of course. But perhaps that’s what they hope to accomplish through their upcoming Chrome Web Store. Recently, Google presented this concept for their Chrome Web Store, an HTML5 apps marketplace, during its I/O conference.
It looks like Google’s new app store will resemble the iPhone app store in many similarities. But, unlike Apple, Google won’t be taking a 30% cut of profit. Rather, they will only collect a “processing fee” of approximately 5% of the app purchase.
This huge profit incentive alone could win developers over right away. But, the real magic behind Google’s Chrome Web Store can’t even be answered yet. Because it’s to soon to tell how Google will incorporate Gmail, Buzz, their future “Google Me” social media network and every other proprietary site they own to help make this site both viral and network-driven.
The Chrome Web store is reportedly launching in October.
Tags: app-store, Apple, gmail, Google, google-adwords-advertising, google-buzz, google-chrome-web-store, google-me, HTML5, i/o-conference, iphone-app-store, social-media-marketing
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Monday, July 26th, 2010
Flash doesn’t work on many mobile devices. And Apple has officially given up on Flash, instead pointing toward an HTML5 future. But what do we do in the meantime? YouTube has provided us with their answer in the <iframe>.
The <iframe> is YouTube’s way of letting the Web world evolve without disrupting the current world, which is largely based in Flash. With this new dual-support code, videos will automatically play in either YouTube’s Flash or HTML5 players, depending on viewing environment and user preference.
YouTube is still working on allowing advertisements to work in the HTML5 format as well as allowing embedded videos to work natively on a mobile device’s built-in player. But this may be the very thing the Web needs to seamlessly transition into a Web 3.0 world.
Tags: flash, HTML5, iframe, mobile-marketing, website-marketing, YouTube
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Thursday, July 8th, 2010
The wait for the newest edition of the world’s second most popular browser is finally over. Mozilla has released Firefox 4 Beta for preview download available now.
Many of the upgrades are back-end changes designed to improve the lives of Web developers everywhere – a major market for Firefox due to its high ability for customization.
But, as a user, you’ll notice some immediate improvements in your experience. You can now search for and switch to tabs that are already open in the Smart Location Bar. The stop and reload buttons have been combined into a single button for Windows, Mac and Linux. A Bookmarks Button has replaced the Bookmarks Toolbar by default (but can be switched back if you prefer). Crash protection has been added when a crash occurs in Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins. And native support is now included for the video format of the future, HD HTML5 WebM.
Tags: firefox-4-beta, internet-consulting, mozilla-firefox, website-marketing
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