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Episode 4: HTML5 Madness!
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On this episode we talk to the fabulous Jeremy Keith, author of HTML5 For Web Designers. Awesome book, awesome guy, awesome interview. We also have 2 additional guests: John Wolters (Usability Expert & Technical Communicator) from Aachen, Germany, and Lindsey Ogden (Designer & Drupalista) from Fort Collins, Colorado.
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Episode 4 Show Notes
Special Guests:
- Jeremy Keith – Author – HTML5 for Designers
- Jochen Wolters – Usability Engineer and Technical Communicator
- Lindsay Ogden – Web Developer – Specialty in Drupal Development
News:
- MailChimp got an upgrade
- Now allows up to 1000 users in the free account (previously 500)
- Also allows up to 6000 emails a month in the free account (previously 3000)
- MailChimp allows you to specify editable tags within an HTML email
- Allows you to view open, unsubscribe, etc. stats
- New Book: Undercover User Experience Design
- Created by James Box and Cennydd Bowles from ClearLeft
- Video about Homemade Spacecraft
- Being launched attached to a weather balloon
- Sent up an iPhone4 (which survived reentry)
- Neilsen released stats on mobile device market share
- BlackBerry – 31% (and falling)
- iPhone – 28%
- Android – 19% (and growing)
- Android has 32% of sales, 25% for iPhone and BlackBerry
- Google Goggles was released for the iPhone
- Get the Google App (from the iTunes store)
- Tap on the camera button
- Take a picture of whatever you want to search on
- Google searches for whatever is in the picture, and returns information on it
- Obviously, Google tracks your pictures (but you can opt out of the tracking)
- Blog Post: My First Week with the iPhone
- Great example of how accessibility can change someone’s life
- Written by someone who was blind, using the iPhone
- The Glif
- Tripod adapter for an iPhone4
- Also serves as a kick stand
Feature:
- Book Club – “HTML5 for Designers” by Jeremy Keith
- Discussion with Jeremy Keith via Skype
- Special guest Lindsay Ogden – local listener
- Five Rings Web Design
- Drupal Developer
- Jeremy Keith
- Author
- Publishing with a small company versus a large publishing house was much nicer
- Collaboration for the book took place via BaseCamp
- The whole book was written in about 2 months
- There were several edits up until the last minute, because the standard is constantly changing
- Not everything in the spec is touched on, because of the ever changing nature of the HTML5 spec
- It’s almost certain that Google is starting to track HTML5
- But it’s not clear how much it will affect the ratings
- Canvas is a likely competitor to Flash, at least for things like games
- HTML5 allows you to provide both Flash video, and HTML5 video
- Drupal 8 will support HTML5 by default
- IE9 beta is out
- Supposedly has great HTML5 support
- Has great CSS3 support
- Start using HTML5 now
- Start with the semantic tags first
- If you’re hesitant to fully switch to HTML5, you can get a grasp of the semantic markup by using the tag names as classes on divs
- It looks pretty and it’s short – pick it up!
- Available at books.alistapart.com
- Also available on the iTunes store as a digital iBook
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Social Media Minute:
- Nick Armstrong
- Twitter and Facebook updated their privacy settings
- On Twitter, programs can no longer ask you for your username and password, and store them indefinitely as a means to access your account
- Instead, they have to have an API key
- This new system has 4 keys that have to be enabled before account access is allowed
- Go to Settings -> Connections to see what programs have access to your Twitter account
- Facebook has a similar setting
- Found under Account -> Privacy -> Applications
- See which third-party applications and sites have access to your profile
Blog Picks of the Week:
- uxmyths.com
- State a common UX or UI myth, state why they think it’s wrong
- lanyrd.com
- Conference directory
- @lanyrd
- micasaessucasa.tumblr.com
- Pictures of homes (inside and out)
- Great design inspiration
- Use of space, color, textures, shapes, etc…
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