A new dimension to the multi-toch

sshadmand — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 07:01:00 +0000

Couple a lack of a keyboard and mouse with the lack of real estate in most mobile devices and you have a brand new problem with ergonomics and accessibility. Apple broke in the door with multi touch sensors that allow the screen to pinch and zoom with two fingers. The ability to recognize how your fingers interact with the screen means more intuitive gersture commands opening the door to far more access to tools and usage paths. This vide demonstares the ability for this phone to recognize what part of hand is tapping the screen. The result: your fingernail tapping the screen equals a right click, and a knuckle tab opens a new window.

iPhone, Safari, and HTML5, Oh My!

sshadmand — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:51:13 +0000

iPhone Video

iPhone Safari is purpoted to be trying to release HTML5′s newest spec that allows video tags. This means that we will soon be able to watch video inline easily not only on the web in general but on our pretty little phones.

Some of you may be saying, “I already can playvideo on my phone”. Which although true isnt really the whole picture. Have you noticed that when there is video you must play in in a seperate quicktime panel that pops out. Witht the inclusion of this new spec you will be ale to just press play from within the web page.

For developers this also menas that including images in a pahge will be as easy as using a simple tag as appose to needing to use a plugin like quicktime or flash. As Isaac put it, we are one step closer to getting rid of flash.

Example:

your browser does not support the video tag

Sean Shadmand » mobile

A new dimension to the multi-toch

iPhone, Safari, and HTML5, Oh My!