Is this a glimpse of the future? Lionsgate this morning released a new website that promotes the next “Hunger Games” movie using HTML5 and responsive design to provide a customized experience that works across desktop computers, tablets and smartphones. The “Hunger Games Explorer,” as it’s called, is the film studio’s latest partnership with Microsoft’s Internet… Read More…
Promotional sites for movies are traditionally created in Adobe Flash, but Microsoft and Lionsgate are looking to lead the industry down a new path. They’re partnering on a site that uses HTML5 and other web standards, without plugins, to create an immersive environment for “Hunger Games” fans in advance of the March 23 release of… Read More…
The promise of HTML5 has captivated mobile developers for a long time now. But the debate still rages: Should devs spend their time and energy tinkering with HTML5 or moving forward with native apps? Depending upon who you ask that question, you’ll likely get a very different answer. Mobile gaming veteran David Bluhm – whose Seattle… Read More…
The board of the 14-year-old .NET Developer Association in Redmond sent a message to its members last night proposing a six-month break in activities to figure out how to revitalize the group — citing a general lack of interest from members, sponsors and speakers, even from Microsoft. The timing is notable. Coincidentally, Microsoft is preparing… Read More…
Amazon.com has released new details on the next generation of its Kindle e-book format — dubbed Kindle Format 8 — saying it adds more support for HTML5, the latest version of the underlying language of the web. The move will broaden an approach already being used in the company’s upcoming Kindle Fire tablet. “As showcased on… Read More…
One of the big debates in the development world right now is whether mobile phone users will access games, books, music, news and other content via mobile browsers or through the application ecosystem pioneered by Apple and now a major link in the chain of Android and Windows Phone 7. Certainly, there’s a lot of… Read More…
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