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500MB download? Why didn't Wired Magazine use HTML5 for their iPad app?

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Re: 500MB download? Why didn't Wired Magazine use HTML5 for their iPad app?

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Post by andreyf »

Because whatever software they use to layout the magazine can't export to HTML5. Since they're optimizing for time-to-market, they don't have time to retrain their designers to use different software, rewrite/extend it, or wait for the creators of that software to add export-to-HTML5 functionality, and so this was the most reasonable move. Give it some time, and they'll either move everything to HTML5 or a similar format with the features they need (their style of pagination, control over scrolling/swiping details in the UI, etc).

Re: 500MB download? Why didn't Wired Magazine use HTML5 for their iPad app?

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Post by dreyfiz »

ars wrote: post #2

Did I miss something? Did adobe buy wired? He keeps talking about adobe here, but I don't see the connection.

The iPad edition of the magazine was originally made in a beta version of Flash CS5, relying on its ability to output iPhone OS apps. When Apple banned third-party runtimes, Adobe built Wired this horrifying hack. I think it's an InDesign plugin. The idea is that Wired's designers won't have to learn anything about the iPhone OS to create the app, but this is a pretty atrocious implementation.

Re: 500MB download? Why didn't Wired Magazine use HTML5 for their iPad app?

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Post by adulau »

If we purchase that, can we export it and read it in reader using an open and free format? I suppose again, we can't use it and are forced to go in p2p to fetch a converted and open version.

I'm always willing to buy e-books in open format and they always end-up in broken or/and proprietary formats that you can't read on your platform.

This always reminds me of the DRM sucks visualization for the audio book : http://s3.amazonaws.com/the_brads/the_brads_drm.png

Re: 500MB download? Why didn't Wired Magazine use HTML5 for their iPad app?

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Post by blhack »

radley wrote: post #4
ars wrote: post #2

Did I miss something? Did adobe buy wired? He keeps talking about adobe here, but I don't see the connection.

Adobe built the app for Wired. First it was Flash/AIR based, but then they have to make it iPOS compliant...

I'm not really sure if you're trying to say:

iPhone/iPad Operating system

or

iPiece Of Shit.

What the heck with the downvotes? Aren't the iPhone and iPad Operating Systems based on one another? I just thought it was funny that, at first glance, my brain saw something completely different than "iPhone Operating System".

Re: 500MB download? Why didn't Wired Magazine use HTML5 for their iPad app?

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Post by carterschonwald »

andreyf wrote: post #3

Because whatever software they use to layout the magazine can't export to HTML5. Since they're optimizing for time-to-market, they don't have time to retrain their designers to use different software, rewrite/extend it, or wait for the creators of that software to add export-to-HTML5 functionality, and so this was the most reasonable move. Give it some time, and they'll either move everything to HTML5 or a similar fo…

hrm, presumably whatever layout tool they use can export to pdf, and presumably it would be possible to then use Scribd's html5 tech (or license the right to use it) to then make it html 5?
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