Adobe Apollo
Mike Downey
Apollo allows developers to deploy rich web apps to the desktop through a runtime environment
Examples:
EBay Desktop
Adobe flex app
Still able to display the user-entered HTML within the flash app
Apollo uses webkit HTML rendering engine (same as Safari etc) integrated with the flash engine
Nice functionality
- search results kept in separate pane to the result you’re […]
Designing for web apps
Ryan Singer (37 signals)
George Oates (flickr)
Denise Wilton (moo)
10 tips for better signup forms (Ryan Singer)
1) Making stuff up is hard - username and password
- easy questions first as it builds momentum
2) Rockstar2084 is taken… use AJAX to do live checking on usernames
3) Forgot password stuff etc. Design form with least amount of […]
Finding your creative vein
Brendan Dawes (magneticNorth)
Some of Brendan’s ideas for inspiration…
Reinhold Messner - Murdering the impossible (National Geographic article)
Big risk-taker: first man to climb everest without oxygen.
Most inspirational thing :it wasn’t about the mountains - not a naturalist - he’s interested in the interaction between the man and the mountain. Or something.
Shame - western, 1952. […]
Apologies in advance - I’m about to post my shonky notes from each of the presentations at FOWD 2007 in London. They may/may not be useful but thoughts are welcome.
In a little under two weeks, I’ll be flying the furthest I’ve ever flown in my life: to San Diego and Los Angeles, spending roughly a week or so in each. First I’ll be attending ETech , attempting to expand my mind with some wholesome thought food, and then I’ll be taking over a sofa […]
Now you too can cook up some seriously cool beats. Warning: quite high in phat.
minor 9th has been powered by a number of different content management systems (CMSs) since it began - it’s been hand-coded, managed with blogger, greymatter and, for the last five years, movable type. All of these methods served me well, but because I can’t help tinkering, I decided to switch over to wordpress.
It has been […]
I’m looking for some tools which would enable me to create visual representations of websites - a little like this one of minor9th.com, made with htmlgraph, but where each node represents a page within the site, and where it’s also possible to attach visitor numbers to the pages in question and display the nodes proportionally.
I […]
Subject to getting the time off work approved, I’m going to be attending the first European Future of Web Design conference on April 18th. Some pretty interesting people will be sharing pearls of webby wisdom. A rethink of this shabby old blog thing may follow.
Anyone else planning on going?
Whilst faithfully fulfilling my geek-boy duty to download the beta of Vista (bloaty, jerky, blurry - my computer scored a lowly 2 out of 5 on performance), I accidentally signed up to a bloody Microsoft newsletter which has since gone unread for months and months.
So, armed with a comforting mug of tea, I decide to […]
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