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So Adobe have created a set of tools for building HTML5 content via Dreamweaver.
Press release here-
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/201005/051910HTML5Pack.html
Download here-
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/html5pack.html
Recently there has been a lot of coverage regarding this debate. Apple have said never, they are currently being investigated by the FTC for this.
There are a lot of pro’s and con’s for both sides, Apple and its supporters are hedging their bets on an emerging technology to replace flash in the long run and provide a better user experience for new mobile devices.
In the past few days some heavyweights have had their say-
http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/opera-joins-in-jobs-v-flash-argument-687597
http://hothardware.com/News/Microsofts-Take-On-Flash-HTML5-Is-The-Future-But-Well-Support-Adobe/
Looks like the tide is slowly turning…
CS5 has officially been released to market today, yes while we have been selling free upgrades over the past few weeks since the official CS5 launch, you are still unable to get serial numbers and install media. Adobe should start contacting all eligible CS4 upgrade customers soon.
In the meantime, you can download a trial version of CS5 which are now live to download, go to -
http://www.adobe.com/downloads/
Hover over the product you wish to install, and click the try button, then you will need to register or sign in with an Adobe account (free) to download the relevant installer for Windows or Mac. The downloads range from 3GB to 8GB in size.
Run the installer and choose install 30 day demo and enjoy the new features.
ElJobso has finally stated, in an open letter to the world why Apple are restricting flash on its mobile devices, he makes a lot of valid points that I’m sure will fall on a lot of deaf ears-
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
Conclusion from Steve-
Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short.
The avalanche of media outlets offering their content for Apple’s mobile devices demonstrates that Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content. And the 200,000 apps on Apple’s App Store proves that Flash isn’t necessary for tens of thousands of developers to create graphically rich applications, including games.
New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.
UPDATE, Adobe CEO comments on above-
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/04/29/live-blogging-the-journals-interview-with-adobe-ceo/
Here is a list of the major features being released by Adobe in CS5-
http://indesignsecrets.com/roundup-of-indesign-cs5-features-honest-this-time.php
As an ex Photoshop retoucher I am always fascinated by the ability of people to extend this tool to great lengths.
I used to work with a guy (back in the 90’s) who in Photoshop V4 could create a portrait from scratch using a wacom tablet and his artistic ability, after many hours and days of airbrushing he would end up with a life like image. Incredible, nowadays this is more commonplace-
http://www.noupe.com/tutorial/40-outstanding-photo-manipulation-tutorials.html
Steve Jobs told Apple employees – “They (Adobe) are lazy. They have all this potential to do interesting things, but they just refuse to do it. They don’t do anything with the approaches that Apple is taking, like Carbon. Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it’s because of Flash. No one will be using Flash. The world is moving to HTML5.”
This is a man possibly way ahead of his time, he has stubbornly refused to allow Flash on the iPhone and upcoming iPad.
Youtube and Google both have alternative beta’s in development instead of Flash based ones, these are HTML5 based.
Problem is most web sites these days employ some form of flash and it would take a major shift by online delivery to re-develop existing websites away from flash to HTML5.
That has begun with Virgin America, they have now released their new website sans flash, new and improved with HTML5!-
http://www.virginamerica.com/va/home.do
Story here-
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/03/03/virgin-america-dumps-flash-over-lack-of-iphone-support/
For all you budding retouchers out there here are a few examples of what not to do -
http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com
An open source developer has written a Javascript runtime hack to enable Flash based animation on Safari web browser on the Apple iPhone-
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/01/hack-enables-flash-on-iphone/
See a few demo’s here on your iPhone-
http://paulirish.com/work/gordon/demos/
See this page below for some information on CS5 upcoming features. Including a sneak peek of CS5 Photoshop.
Adobe have not given us a release date as yet for CS5 but timelines suggests April this year
How the production team on Avatar use the Adobe suite on the recently released blockbuster.
http://blogs.adobe.com/rjacquez/2009/12/adobe_software_and_avatar.html
Amazing vector art created by Ahmed Alrefaie, up to a month to create one…
http://abduzeedo.com/20-insane-vectors-ahmed-alrefaie
Great article on special image enhancing techniques by Six Revisions-
http://sixrevisions.com/photoshop/22-professional-photoshop-image-enhancing-tutorials/
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