Here’s a quickie to get the post-Labor Day week started. If you haven’t seen or looked at Keynotopia for your UI prototypes, now’s the time.
A great tool to make simple, interactive UI prototypes without having to touch code.
Create Web App, iPhone, iPad, or Android prototypes in Keynote
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Mobile Flash Fails to Perform
Why should we care about HTML5 now that we have Mobile Flash?
Avram Piltch reviews Flash Player 10.1 on the new Droid 2.
I’m the last person on earth who wanted to believe Steve Jobs when he told Walt Mossberg at D8 that “Flash has had its day.” I took it as nothing more than showmanship when Jobs shared his thoughts on Flash and wrote that “Flash is closed and proprietary, has major technical drawbacks, and doesn’t support touch based devices.” After spending time playing with Flash Player 10.1 on the new Droid 2, the first Android 2.2 phone to come with the player pre-installed, I’m sad to admit that Steve Jobs was right. Adobe’s offering seems like it’s too little, too late.
In summary, Flash on the smartphone fails to deliver on any of its promises and offering no substantial benefit over already existing HTML5 technology that smartphones have adopted for online video and other uses.
Vimeo Launches Embedded HTML5 Player
If you’re in the habit of embedding video on your website whether you’re hosting it yourself or have been using a service like Vimeo or Youtube, then you’ve most likely been using an embedded Flash player.
If you’ve been wanting to offer HTML5-based video on your site so that users of smartphones and other mobile devices have easier access to your video it’s been a difficult thing up until today if you haven’t been able to host your own video.
Here’s an example of an embedded Vimeo video with the new player/embed code:
“Inception” Sound for Film Profile from Michael Coleman on Vimeo.
Vimeo has always been a great solution for hosting video, but now with their complete HTML5 solution they’re pulling ahead of the pack.
