Latest Digital Trends http://www.micelistudios.com/blog From New York - Interactive Design Tips and Latest Digital News. Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:28:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 Death of IE6 http://www.micelistudios.com/blog/2012/01/04/death-of-ie6/ http://www.micelistudios.com/blog/2012/01/04/death-of-ie6/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:28:41 +0000 web design New York City http://www.micelistudios.com/blog/?p=953 Microsoft celebrates the death of version 6 of its Internet Explorer browser — IE6 usage in the U.S. has now dropped below 1%, which means more websites can drop support for the antiquated browser. If we haven’t already ended support for IE6, and halted the implementation of all the hacks and workarounds — we can now put IE6 on the low priority list or end support entirely, saving hours of work for web developers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16408850

http://www.ie6countdown.com/

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Even though IE9 is relatively new, and I work on a MAC primarily, we have been exploring Pinned Sites.
You can find out all about it at http://buildmypinnedsite.com/
There is also a jQuery plugin to help make things easier http://plugins.jquery.com/project/pinify

It is a very good execution of how integrated websites that act like native applications, can work very well. So make sure to check it out, and learn how to design and develop native applications that blur the lines between the browser and the desktop.

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Facebook is promoting itself as an Ad platform with the launch of Facebook Studio. It looks like Facebook is giving marketers a glimpse into what can be done on their platform for brands, and the advertising and marketing of a brand’s goods and services. It highlights some high quality social marketing campaigns on Facebook, and looks to be a great place to go and see what is happening in that area of social marketing — could this be a door into some other facebook strategy ? Check it out for yourself.

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Read about it here http://mobileuserinterfaces.blogspot.com/2010/09/future-os-screens-experience-video.html
And you won’t want to miss this video… for the creative mind, it’s inspiring to say the least.


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You can check out the preview video from October here.

Wallaby is an experimental Flash-to-HTML5 conversion tool, with an easy drag-and-drop usage. It’s pretty amazing ! Flash and HTML5 can coexist peacefully together. Check it out and download it here. Then join the developer and designer conversation and offer feedback on the experimental tool, to help make it better.

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We’ve used All-In-One-SEO-Pack in the past, and currently use Platinum SEO, which work great for creating specific title tags, and other relevant tagging features, but this plug-in seems to have a future for becoming the best one out there to use in your web design or blog (if it’s not already).

Here’s a short video interview with the creator of Yoast and this new plug-in

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Sketch out your ideas, write a note, design an UI and develop ideas visually — do anything you would ordinarily do on paper with NoteSketch. A low cost different type of tablet with 180- hours of battery life. Check it out here.

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Google chrome 9 shows off some WebGL Support, Chrome Web Store, and Google Instant in the address bar of the browser.

My favorite example of the WebGL is linked below (Body Browser).
And… yes, you need Chrome to view them, and you can download it here http://www.google.com/chrome/)

• http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/
• View All Experiments

FYI… version 9 ?? Didn’t it take IE 15 years to get to version 9.. sorry 9 Beta ?

]]> http://www.micelistudios.com/blog/2011/02/05/chrome-9/feed/ 0 HTML5 has a logo http://www.micelistudios.com/blog/2011/01/21/html5-has-a-logo/ http://www.micelistudios.com/blog/2011/01/21/html5-has-a-logo/#comments Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:31:23 +0000 web design New York City http://www.micelistudios.com/blog/?p=904 HTML5 has certainly gotten a lot of press throughout the past year or so — and it is a huge leap forward. The HTML5 name has — in general — become somewhat of an umbrella term for a mix of some HTML5 markup, CSS3 and javascript techniques and libraries to help make things come to life (without flash design), as well as fixes for IE and older browsers.

The current state of affairs seems to have taken any relatively new feature or browser trick and affixed the “HTML5″ name on it. It seems that every techie or demo site out there, can’t wait to throw the HTML5 name on any new browser capability, without understanding what HTML5 really is. Even when Apple demonstrated it’s HTML5 demo page, only 2 of the examples demonstrated HTML5 capabilities (audio and video demos) the rest were a collection of CSS3, javascript and Safari-only CSS extensions.

But… none of this matters, because HTML5 has become a brand!
Check out this WC3 site, and a very well-done and beautifully architect-ed site I might add… for the new HTML5 logo (and yes T-Shirts and stickers too).

We may not be using pure HTML5 in this decade, but we sure can wear a T-shirt!!
(of course we can use some HTML5 right now, and put it’s banner on everything that is new in a browser today, as long as we still keep cross-browser compliance in mind for our audience)

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