It looks like Adobe is creating a software specifically to publish animated and interactive content to tablets, and it doesn;t look like it’s only capable of publishing to the iPad… of course! It is said to bridge the gap between print and digital publishing mediums.

The new Adobe technologies will focus on mobile hardware-specific needs, including 360-degree image rotation and pinch/swipe gestural navigation for panning and zooming. This is currently accomplished through an AIR utility, the Interactive Overlay Creator. In future versions of InDesign, the Interactive Overlay Creator will be an integrated feature.

Adobe is making a new format — the .issue format. It allows designers to import layouts from InDesign, add metadata, experiment with portrait and landscape layouts, and export content to the .issue format — a brand-new, ready-to-render file for digital magazines.

This looks awesome – I hope there is support for animation, and high level interactions… it was the next logical step for print designers, and web designers taking this format to the next level and making is easier for designers to create.

As Internet Explorer has serious issues supporting CSS3 features so recently there have been great advances with attempting to gain support for the powerful styling features that CSS3 has including: Rounded corners, soft drop shadows, gradient fills, etc. These are the powerful elements that web designers and front-end website developers want to use to enhance the design of websites. They happen to also be difficult and time-consuming to implement, involving complex sprite images, extra non-semantic markup, large JavaScript libraries, and other hacks.

Here are a few fantastic tools you can use to make IE compatible with all these modern techniques to make the website design support these newer visual features.

http://www.modernizr.com/
http://fetchak.com/ie-css3/
http://css3pie.com/

I ran across this http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/ App Inventor by Google Labs. It looks very good, and giving people the power to create is seemingly the best way to grow a platform and force it to the top.

Sencha Touch allows you to develop web apps that look and feel native on Apple iOS and Google Android touchscreen devices. It comes with many customizable built-in UI layout components including carousels, lists and tabs.

The HTML5 mobile application development framework supports custom events like:

• Tap
• Double tap
• Tap
• Hold & rotate, etc.

This looks like great starting ground for developing iPad applications, iPhone apps and Android Applications. Check out the demo below:

Sencha Touch Introduction from Sencha on Vimeo.

Check out the above link to learn the simple truth about flash the ubiquitous, versatile player that has been positively advancing and changing user experiences, and reinventing animation style and interactivity since it’s beginning. There is some great information there.

Here’s some screen-grabs of what the ad looks like:
It’s gentle and kind, and an effective approach to Apple’s recent blockade on flash.

WE LOVE CHOICE

WE LOVE FLASH

WE LOVE HTML5

WE LOVE ALL DEVICES

Adobe Lets you create without limits.

Here’s a quote at the end of the video from Jon Stewart “…how can you drop 4 calls in a one mile stretch on the west side highway.”
Referring to the iPhone from Apple with AT&T service in New York City.

The article above brings up the new Google Froyo (Android 2.2)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37261396/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/, which supports flash – and more specifically “…Flash 10.1 which is optimized to run on mobile devices. And more than finally killing off those little question mark cubes that litter the web on your phone, it’ll also be a huge differentiation for Google in the fight against Apple. There’s a line in the sand, and Adobe and Google are on the same side of it…” says msnbc.

The article also makes mention of the old Microsoft and Apple war for the desktop OS, restrictions and open platforms and some interesting insight and perspective into what’s happening now with the mobile market.

It’s all interesting stuff right now!