Mobile web content adaptation techniques. Introduction This article will help you pick from amongst the many techniques for building a mobile website. It doesn't describe how to do it, rather it instead tries to help you to pick the right approach. Before we begin it's worth clarifying exactly what the goal of the exercise is. Generally speaking, people who are looking to build a mobile site fall into two categories. Trying to make an existing website work passably well on mobile devices or, building a mobile experience from the ground up These two goals are quite different and tend to result in different approaches and solutions.
In order to distinguish between the techniques available this article will use the terms resolution independence and content adaptation respectively. Evolution of content adaptation This article is designed to serve as a reference that describes many of the content adaptation techniques available, and some of the benefits and issues with each one. Responsive Design Mobile-First Responsive Design Summary. Blasting the Myth of the Fold. The Above-the-Fold Myth We are all well aware that web design is not an easy task. There are many variables to consider, some of them technical, some of them human. The technical considerations of designing for the web can (and do) change quite regularly, but the human variables change at a slower rate. Sometimes the human variables change at such a slow rate that we have a hard time believing that it happens. This is happening right now in web design. First, a definition: The word “fold” means a great many things, even within the discipline of design.
Screen performance data and new research indicate that users will scroll to find information and items below the fold. Once upon a time, page-level vertical scrolling was not permitted on AOL. As AOL moved away from our proprietary screen technology to an open web experience, we enjoyed the luxury of designing longer (and wider) pages.
And why? This is where things get interesting. But, you may argue, these pages are both in blog format. Marlin Developer Community Releases Open DRM Tool - eBookNewser. Project MUSE® - Project MUSE E-Mail Announcement Archive. December November October September August July June May April March January December 27, 2011 From: Project MUSE <muse@press.jhu.edu> Subject: NEW TITLE DEBUTS IN PROJECT MUSE The following journal, previously announced as joining Project MUSE, is now online: ** From the Anales Galdosianos: Anales Galdosianos Anales Galdosianos, Anales Galdosianos, en colaboración con la Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas, publica anualmente artículos, reseñas y documentos, en español o en inglés, sobre la vida y obra de Benito Pérez Galdós y otros autores del siglo diecinueve y la historia intelectual y cultural de la España de Galdós.
Anales Galdosianos, in collaboration with the International Association of Galdós Scholars, is published once a year, and contains articles, reviews and documents, in Spanish or English, on the life and works of Benito Pérez Galdós and other 19th-century authors, as well as the intellectual and cultural history of Galdós's Spain. Scandinavian Studies Renaissance Drama. SciVerse adds text-to-speech application, iSpeech Audio Reader. Great news from Elsevier about the new iSpeech Audio Reader application which instantly converts any full-text article within ScienceDirect into a natural sounding voice file.
We see a lot of these mp3 files used for auditory learners, students with disabilities, and foreign language learners at my institution. More from the press release below: Elsevier, a world leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the availability of an audio reader application from iSpeech, provider of cloud-based speech technology and mobile apps, on SciVerse Applications beta. The iSpeech Audio Reader is the latest in a growing list of applications enhancing the use of SciVerse ScienceDirect content to improve researchers’ workflows. The iSpeech Audio Reader application stems from a collaborative relationship between iSpeech and Elsevier developed following a 24-hour hackathon hosted by the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Elsevier.
The Atavist. EPUB 3: Exciting Possibilities for Distribution of Digital Content. When you hear the expression "EPUB 3" perhaps you think:It's the next version of a distribution and interchange format specification/standard for digital publications and documents; or you groan because you think it's another e-reader hardware that you need to be aware of. Either way you REALLY need to an article by Bill Kasdorf, published in the Information Standards Quarterly. Bill's article is a report on the work done by the working group to develop EPUB 3. (By the way, the correct answer is "1".) His day jobs are VP of Apex Content Solutions and General Editor of The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing. I'll provide some (hopefully) useful context, pull some highlights from the article and add my comments.
First, some context for those who don't live and breathe this stuff. ). EPUB defines a way to represent, package and encode structured and semantically enhanced Web content—including HTML5, CSS, SVG, images, and other resources—for distribution in a single-file format. Directory. The Anatomy Of An Infographic: 5 Steps To Create A Powerful Visual. Information is very powerful but for the most bit it is bland and unimaginative. Infographics channel information in a visually pleasing, instantly understandable manner, making it not only powerful, but extremely beautiful. Once used predominantly to make maps more approachable, scientific charts less daunting and as key learning tools for children, inforgraphics have now permeated all aspects of the modern world. I designed a couple of infographics back in college, the need arising especially around the time Soccer World Cup fever spiked.
It was a fun process representing the different groups, predicting winners in each group at each stage and creating a mock pairing of teams that would clash all the way leading upto the finals. I was a devout Argentinian supporter at the time. Infographics can appear daunting to some with the sheer amount of data they present, but designed in the right manner and step by step, they can actually be one of the most fun things you will ever create. 1. 2. eText: Is It Ready? Are We Ready? eText | Viewpoint eText: Is It Ready? Are We Ready? After spending a significant portion of the past two years researching and "test driving" eText in the many formats and sources that currently exist, I have come to a number of initial conclusions about the nature and application of eText in higher education (the educational level to which I limited my studies and investigation).
I've seen that most of the possible implementation strategies for eText seem quite logical and are based on existing technologies that have been available to the higher education community for some time. But there is still a problem holding us back--a problem that lies in the fact that defining, combining, and implementing eText components has as yet been accomplished only on a very limited basis and by only a few "technologically entrepreneurial" institutions. What are some of the attributes of eText, and what are the related issues institutions looking into eText are considering?
Blended Learning: A Disruptive Innovation [INFOGRAPHIC] #edtech #edutech. Blog U.: Why Big EDU Publishers and Small EdTech Companies Need Each Other - Technology and Learning. How to Use Barcodes at Conferences (and Why You Might Want To) Audiences for oral presentations and poster sessions at academic conferences often want more information about a particular topic. One way to provide this, obviously, is to create printed flyers or brochures and hope that you’ve brought enough copies for everyone who’s interested. But what if your printed handout doesn’t make it all the way back on your audience member’s trip home?
During the 2011 Digital Humanities conference at Stanford University (currently underway) some people are making use of QR codes, a specific kind of two-dimensional bar code (also known as a matrix code). For example, Peter Organisciak gave a talk entitled “When to Ask For Help: Evaluating Projects For Crowdsourcing,” and on one of his presentation slides–as you can see in the photo at the start of this post–he displayed this QR code: Those of us in the audience with smartphone apps that can read (and interpret) QR codes were able to snap a picture using the camera and then visit the associated page online.
Open-Licenses-BCCampus.png (1123×716) Open Content Licensing for Open Educational Resources. How Online Education Is Changing the Way We Learn [INFOGRAPHIC] Explorable Explanations. Bret Victor / March 10, 2011 What does it mean to be an active reader? An active reader asks questions, considers alternatives, questions assumptions, and even questions the trustworthiness of the author. An active reader tries to generalize specific examples, and devise specific examples for generalities. An active reader doesn't passively sponge up information, but uses the author's argument as a springboard for critical thought and deep understanding.
Do our reading environments encourage active reading? Or do they utterly oppose it? A typical reading tool, such as a book or website, displays the author's argument, and nothing else. Explorable Explanations is my umbrella project for ideas that enable and encourage truly active reading. This essay presents examples of few initial ideas: A reactive document allows the reader to play with the author's assumptions and analyses, and see the consquences. 1.
Ten Brighter Ideas was my early prototype of a reactive document. Drag Analysis: Modeling. Espresso Book Machine. EPUB Really IS a Container. "It's OK for libraries to put things in their EPUB books. " That's what Bill Kasdorf, a member of the EPUB Working Group, told me last week at the IDPF Digital Book 2011 Meeting. He checked with EPUB Revision Co-Editor Markus Gylling to make sure. I had been curious if libraries could put all their cataloging information inside an EPUB file instead of siloing it in their catalog system. It may seem an odd question if you don't know a few things about EPUB. EPUB is a standard format for ebooks. The EPUB specs define a lot more than just a file format. OCF uses the ubiquitous ZIP format to wrap up all a book's resource files into a neat, transportable package.
There's even a reserved name for a file to contain book level metadata in OCF: META-INF/metadata.xml, as well as another file for rights information, META-INF/rights.xml. The new EPUB revision is coming fast. EPUB 3 comes with lots of goodies. All this capability will remain latent unless people find compelling uses for it.