Adobe issues CSS Web publishing prototype | Deep Tech. SAN FRANCISCO--Hoping to bring magazine-style layout tools to Web publishing, Adobe Systems tonight released a prototype browser specifically designed to let Web developers test the company's proposed formatting technology. The technology, called CSS Regions, lets programmers easily create multi-column layouts, place text in various polygonal shapes, and flow around objects in the middle of text. That technology has existed for years in the print publishing world, but it's generally missing from the Web, and its absence grows ever more conspicuous as magazines and newspapers move to digital publishing, especially on tablets such as Apple's iPad. The formatting features are notable, particularly because they're dynamic, said Arno Gourdol, director of engineering for the Flash runtime at Adobe. With them, layouts adjust automatically as people resize browser windows or roate tablets from portrait to landscape orientation.
Adobe's CSS Regions technology can be downloaded from Adobe Labs. PhoneGap. PageLime - Simple CMS for Web Designers. Apple Opens Up iAd Creation to the Masses. In an indication that the company will no longer be so tight-fisted about control of its iAd creation, Apple today rolled out iAd Producer, a free desktop app that lets third parties make iAds. iAd Producer "makes it easy for you to design and assemble high-impact, interactive content for iAd," the company writes on its Apple Developer page, adding that the app "automatically manages the HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript" behind iAds.
By making the creation of iAds available via a graphic user interface, the app effectively removes the need for advanced development acumen. Apple introduced the iAd platform in April with the goal of changing the face and quality of advertising. Since then, Apple has been very restrictive about who can use iAd. According to a report published earlier this year, Apple charged between $1 million and $10 mililion to the likes of Nissan and Disney to use the platform. The first iAd showed up on iPhones in July.
Visualizing.org: a New Shared and Free Resource on Data Visualization. Visualizing [visualizing.org] has just been released as the latest online player in the ever-increasing blogosphere about the topic of data visualization. But Visualizing is different in many ways. For one, the man behind the Visualizing initiative is Adam Bly, founder and Editor-in-Chief of Seed and one of the people behind the impressive Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition at MoMA. Together with the fact that Visualizing is also supported by a wide range of highly reputable design institutions, the website positions itself as the most serious media player in the field of data visualization, enjoying an unseen amount of credibility and financial funding.
While Visualizing.org's mission is to help make data visualization figure more prominently across the web as a way of understanding complex world issues as they unfold, it is not a weblog in the classic sense. The website has just been launched and it officially still in beta, but many more features are planned. Welcome to CogTool | CogTool.
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Learn more about Rackspace's hosting solutions here. Mac OS X is a popular platform for developers and designers of all stripes. Apple has always had strength in the graphic design market, but even before Apple's shift to Intel processors in 2006, developers started migrating to Mac OS X. Mac OS X is a popular choice because it combines the power of BSD and other UNIX and UNIX-like systems with an elegant user interface.
Mac OS X comes with Apache, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Subversion already installed, which makes it easy to turn a factory-fresh Mac into a local test server. There is also a really robust and talented community of developers for Mac OS X, making some of the best apps around for designers and developers alike. As the end of summer approaches, we wanted to highlight six more Mac apps that have been released in the last few month for developers and designers. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Bonus: Courier Your Thoughts?