dot net

a costly magazine released every month, over spilling with relevant jarg, a necessity for every webgeek wanting to keep up to date and involved.

Books on web design, apps and web junk in general are pretty much outdated as soon as they reach the press because of the everchanging face, and nature of the industry. Hours trawling through the webs dirty depths can be overwhelming .Net is relentlessly up to date, relevant and useful, its quick, easy and relevant turnover leading to its huge success and value. S.Belch was kind enough to throw a few copies our way for us to search through. I was lucky enough to snag one about animation, it’s a pretty intense read, that required a lot more of my attention than the usual jaqueline Wilson books I read, haha.

‘ere are a few things that took me fancy.

1.     HTML5 vs. Adobe Flash – in regards to mobile devices/tablets.

Not your expected argument of html5 shaggin.

Some bloke did a quick animation of a bouncy ball in flash, tested it on android and it went down a treat, he did a html 5 version for iphone, had a view and it was rubbish (slow, flagging all sorts).

The articles not really leaning one way or another, just pointing out that perhaps we should be a bit cautious before fully dumping flash. Obviously as technology develops, things’ll change, but jumping on the html5bumder wagon isn’t the best decision as of yet, flash still holds abit a value, maybe in a few years, itll be gone. Just a different side/argument I hadn’t considered. His points golden – use the best program for the relevant audience/result/thing.

The head Adobe fella John Nack chips in, saying how flash is as valuable html 5, and excels in different ways as currenty technology stands.

Flash benefits – less battery drain, better object animation

Html 5/canvas – fonts/drop shadow/basic video/simple transitions.

2.     Twitterpricks – porn orientated javawonders

Hadn’t head about this either, probably not as hot as I should be, considering this magazines about a year old but, over summer people had been javascripting their way into mischief.

Code had been implemented that retweetet on mouse overs, redirected on a click to all sorts of saucy sites, made the entire screen a mouse over leading to all sorts of redirections.

3.     The cover article of CSS3 animation. I’ve scanned it in because I found the whole thing pretty interesting, and will be sad to see the information leave me as I return the mag to its rightful owner tomorrow. 

in a quick summary the article chuffs :

how it’ll be better than a flash plugin, will use img:hover and :target, but obviously wont be a widespread browser functionality anytime soon.

Some bloke croaks “if we sat on our hands waiting for all broswers to support something we’d have very numb hands” haha I like him already.

IN OTHER NEWS

Finally getting this all browser accessible thing, quite like the efforts of figuring it out so its friendly across boards, and seeing how different codes are intpreted. A buzz im sure will wear off soon.