Einar Thorsen

Professor of Journalism and Communication at Bournemouth University

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"Websites that surprise and delight us": The future of web design

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Martin Belam:

There is a lot of excitement around HTML5's ability to embed video directly in the page without having to use Flash or Silverlight as a wrapper, but personally, as an information architect on a news site, it is new tags like <header>, <nav>,

and <time> which look immediately useful to me.

This is absolutely the case and the significance of improvements like these are being completely ignored. Prospective online and multimedia journalists should take note!

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Google Font Directory

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    Can't wait for widespread use of new HTML5 font feature, and now Google is doing its bit to simplify embedding of fonts:

    "The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and served by Google servers.

    View font details to get the code needed to embed the font on your web site."

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Thoughts on Flash

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    Steve Jobs:

    "Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short.

    The avalanche of media outlets offering their content for Apple’s mobile devices demonstrates that Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content. And the 200,000 apps on Apple’s App Store proves that Flash isn’t necessary for tens of thousands of developers to create graphically rich applications, including games.

    New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind."

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