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Apple seem strangely focused
Not that they haven’t been in the past, but for me Apple seem really, really focused at the moment. The new range of iPods, the upcoming OS updates for the iPad and the Apple TV well and truly signal a shift in priorities. Not to mention, earlier in the year, Steve Jobs himself alluded to the fact that PCs and Laptops as we know them may not be around in the consumer domain for much longer.
I use the word ‘focused’, and you may ask, ‘How can a company which turns over billions of dollars, be lacking in focus?’. Well just look at the obvious ramp up of iOS development; the time scale between 4.1 and the upcoming 4.2 will be a couple of months at the most. Not very long between revisions, in the past, we’d be waiting a couple of months for simple bug fixes.
iOS is the new OS-X.
The mobile push would appear to be well and truly on, and a focused Apple at the forefront can only be a good thing. Surely.
HTML5 for Web Designers
The first A Book Apart publication does not disappoint. Written in his usual eloquent and witty way, Jeremy Keith cuts through all the crap and delivers clear and concise descriptions of the HTML5 aspects most important to web designers.
Covering five main sections, HTML5 for Web Designers takes us from the background of HTML (and HTML5), through Rich Media, Web Forms, Semantics and finally, explains how we can go about Using HTML5 Today.
More a ‘users guide’ than anything else, this 89 page publication is an excellent introduction to HTML5 and what it means for web designers.
A solid start to the A Book Apart series, a publication of high quality as expected.
Grab the book now, a must own.
jQuery Retina Display plugin
…the jQuery Retina Display plugin will substitute high resolution versions of your images (if they exist) for high resolution displays (such as iPhone 4) only…
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