Jan 23, 2012
HTML 5 is the fifth revision of the HTML standard (created in 1990 and standardized as HTML4 as of 1997) and as of January 2012 is still under development, and it has lot of potentials. Thus, to encourage developers to use HTML 5, AT&T releases a new API(application programming interface) platform. David Christopher, chief marketing officer at AT&T says ”It’s essentially a rich [...]
By Bach Bui Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: Apps, ATT, HTML, HTML5, Smartphone
Jan 23, 2012
AT&T is promoting the move to HTML 5 by selling what they call “unwrapped” HTML apps. They are looking at HTML 5 as a serious alternative to the native mobile app development. Jeff Bradly, senior vice president of devices said that the Android Market “will be a new kind of app store. Instead of selling [...]
By Irving Aguayo Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311)
Jan 23, 2012
With upcoming HTML5 animators will no longer have to rely on Adobe Flash and Dreamweaver to create animations and give the user an interactive experience on the web. Early on there was no tool in place to help create these animations using HTML5 but Tumult’s Hype has now solved that problem. Hype allows those with [...]
By salvadoralvarez Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: Animation, HTML5, mac
Jan 23, 2012
Last week, we studied about HTML. We all know that HTML5 is the next big thing. I came across a cool article about HTML5 on Gizmodo.com. The article isn’t long, not does it have much details. This article talks about a guy who created fully operational Adobe Photoshop simulator using HTML5, and other advanced tools. [...]
By shahravi88 Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: HTML5
Jan 23, 2012
AT&T is in overdrive to push HTML 5 out since the release of the new API’s that were released. They are really pushing App developers to use HTML 5. “‘It’s essentially a rich set of APIs and tools aimed at furthering the HTML 5 appeal as an app development choice,’ said David Christopher, chief marketing [...]
By Stephen Ore Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: App, Apps, CIS305, HTML5, Interactive Web Development (CIS 311), Stephen Ore
Jan 22, 2012
Almost a year ago, browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, etc started popping up with HTML 5 but the problem was that it was not quite as stable as many would like. Yes it has great features but the problem many saw was the fact that a lot of testing still had to be done for [...]
By Monica Gomez Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: Firefox, Google Chrome, HTML 5
Jan 22, 2012
HTML5 is the latest version of the Hypertext Markup Language used to present content on the World Wide Web. Even though, this version is still under development, one of the innovating features is the allowance to include 3D graphics on the Web pages without the need for plug-ins. The Web-based Graphics Library (WebGL) has extended [...]
By Yeimy Flores Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: HTML5, Web Browser, webgl
Jan 22, 2012
The article I chose to discuss about this week regards Adobe and how they quietly stopped working on mobile flash. Nobody really expected the abrupt ending, and some people feel they didn’t handle the announcement properly. An employee from Adobe was quoted in the article when he said that they were all very clear when [...]
By Carlos Reyes Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: adobe flash kills production html 5
Jan 22, 2012
Grooveshark is a website, run by Flash, to play songs by the users choice. Unlike Pandora, it has not been available for iPhone for whatever reason as an app. It was also pulled as an app from other phones. Now, Grooveshark has made an HTML5 version of its online site so anyone with a smart [...]
By Melinda Echevarria Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311), Uncategorized
Jan 22, 2012
My article is about Google Chrome 11 and some of its new features. It was released in 2011. HTML voice input support was added to Chrome 11. It also switched to a 2-D version of its familiar logo. The built in speech recognition is available on windows and Mac machines. Google’s own translate site has [...]
By Abubaker Dalati Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: Chrome 11
Jan 22, 2012
Over the last two years, HTML5 has been supported and adopted by a lot of big name companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, and LinkedIn. While HTML5 is technically only the latest version of a technical standard, it has come to represent a set of features and capabilities that both enhance user experience and [...]
By Cole O'Connor Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: Adobe, Amazon, Apple, Design, Google, HTML5, Internet, web design, web development
Jan 22, 2012
The article introduces a new product from Adobe which is called Muse. Muse is touted as being able to allow a user to create a website without needing to know how to use Cascading Style Sheets or Hypertext Markup Language. So in essence, it is similar to Adobe’s Dreamweaver program, but it goes further by [...]
By Cary Crosby Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: Adobe, HTML
Jan 21, 2012
Square COO, Keith Rabois makes a case on the importance of keeping mobile applications native to the platform. He believes that applications that stay native to the hardware allows for a greater user experience that is deeper and more responsive than any HTML5 counterpart (which is web-based and usable on any of the mobile platforms). [...]
By Richard Huynh Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311), Uncategorized Tags: Applications, HTML5, Mobile
Jan 19, 2012
Summary: Adobe is not going down with its own ship, as the move towards a HTML5 standard becomes more and more of a reality for everything online, adobe moves in the same direction by developing tools that would help make complex animations in HTML5 easier that could only be made with FLASH. The new Adobe EDGE software would [...]
By Caezar Meza Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: 5, Adobe, Edge, flash, HTML
Jan 16, 2012
The bulk of this article from Wired.com describes the new car technologies displayed at the Consumer Electronic Show by various car manufacturers such as Ford, Toyota, and Audi. Car manufacturers see the profitability of developing cars with mobile applications, cloud support, connectivity options such as “Sync” or “UConnect,” and internet connection such as 3G. That [...]
By Richard Huynh Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: cars, CES, UI/UX, User Experience
Jan 15, 2012
On 03/10/2011, Google announced the debut of a site-blocking search tool to help users personalize the results they find on Google. The tool is simple to use. First, users need an Google account. Secondly, they need to log in their Google accounts then it is ready to use. When they click on a site in a [...]
By Bach Bui Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: Google, search engine, site-filter
Jan 15, 2012
Recent web-user interface studies have shown a need for theoretical approaches. A study conducted for the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology presents a two-factor model that may guide website design and evaluation. According to the study, there are two types of website design factors: hygiene and motivator. The hygiene factors [...]
By Irving Aguayo Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311)
Jan 15, 2012
Researchers have detected a new exploit, this time using AJAX or “Asynchronous JavaScript and XML” to meet their insidious ends. “Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a method of building interactive applications for the Web that process user requests immediately. Ajax combines several programming tools including JavaScript, dynamic HTML (DHTML), Extensible Markup Language (XML), cascading [...]
By Stephen Ore Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: AJAX, CIS311, exploit, Interactive Web Development (CIS 311), Stephen Ore
Jan 15, 2012
It can be a real shame when companies try dirty, little tricks only to benefit their pockets. Well tricks like that can be seen every day, but we cannot simply dump every trick in one bucket, some can be labeled the SEO tricks. The author focuses on six activities that companies have tried to use [...]
By Monica Gomez Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: SEO. search engine, web design
Jan 15, 2012
Recently, technology has progressed in a way that the law has not been able to keep up with it. Specifically, the internet has raised a lot of issues regarding problems such as piracy. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act are two bills that politicians are attempting to pass in congress [...]
By Chris Sanches Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: Free Speech, League of Legends, PIPA, SOPA