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And So the Mighty Fall
Digital Daily reports that MS Internet Explorer’s share of the browser market dropped below 60% for the first time - big news considering that IE had 95% of the market share back in 2003:
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Adobe released CS5 today—go get it!
http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/
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Want to know a crazy amount of detail about what technologies and techniques web designers and developers are favouring in 2010? The survey results are in, and they’re highly interesting:
http://www.webdirections.org/sotw10/
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Five Unsolved Problems Social Media Could Fix
From Harvard Business Review:
designers and developers…represent the gatekeepers of what is rapidly becoming the world’s most influential medium
Will you be one of the designers who solves these problems?
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/03/five_unsolved_problems_social.html
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Pondering the Future of Flash in an iPad World?
A List Apart has an excellent article by Dan Mall about the necessity (or lack thereof) of a battle between Flash and standards-based development. Want to learn a lot about the current state of the web and check out some mind-blowing interactive experiences at the same time? Read on.
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashstandards/
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In the SEO / Analytics course Interactive Design students are optimizing four new sites surrounding this site and learning about the importance of keywords, links, descriptions, tagging, social media integration and above all else - compelling content creation.
Explore the directions north, south, east and west for their experiences.
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I usually prefer to stay away from the all-caps-with-exclamation-points style, but this news is big enough to warrant it. When the next version of Adobe Flash is released (CS5), you’ll be able to export your Flash project as a native iPhone app. This is going to blow things wide open. Read more here:
Developing for the Apple iPhone Using Flash
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Test On Many Versions of IE
Because web designers need to test their HTML & CSS on at least a few versions of Internet Explorer for Windows, thoughtful developers have released tools to allow PC owners to install several versions of IE side by side, which is not normally possible. First there was Multiple IEs, which was the gold standard for a while. Now we have Internet Explorer Collection, which fixes some bugs that plagued Multiple IEs and installs more versions with a very easy wizard:
http://finalbuilds.edskes.net/iecollection.htm
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XHTML is soon to be a thing of the past. Zeldman has his eyes and ears on the W3C:
http://www.zeldman.com/2009/07/02/xhtml-wtf/
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...2009 Grad Show Website
The website for the 2009 grads of Interactive Design is now live on the web:
http://idnt1.capcollege.bc.ca/grad2009/
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