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The Paper Snowflake is Back!

Friday, February 17th, 2012

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Many of us can clearly recall back to the wintery days at school when arts and crafts was our teachers’ strategy of keeping our mouths shut and our hands busy. Equipped with safety-tipped scissors and construction paper, our teachers taught us the skill of carving rudimentary shapes out of folded paper. While the tedious task of cutting triangles and circles did not wow us into an awestruck wonder, the true magic and beauty of the task was reserved for the unveiling of the unique masterpiece folded within.

FotoFlake.It is WebEnertia’s fun flake generator created for the winter season. Much like the nostalgic childhood pastime, FotoFlake.it functions with the same concept in mind, but without the snowy blizzard of scrap paper to clean up after. FotoFlake.it allows users to digitally cut away their flake from a folded piece of paper and then select a photo background for a pop of color and a hint of texture.

To meld our childhood memories with today’s technologies, WebEnertia implemented an augmented reality feature that would take our 2-Dimensional snowflake and bring it to life within a 3-Dimensional landscape.

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As many of us can remember, one of the best parts of arts and crafts was having your hard work on display to share with your friends and family. That being said FotoFlake.it has its own gallery with a rating system where others are encouraged to view and rate the creative work of others, while also providing a simple way to share your design with a photo post on facebook, twitter or email.

So whether you’re 8 or your 68, FotoFlake.it will help you make it. Cut, Unfold, Name and Save it. Just join in and you will see, a FotoFlake.it master you will be!

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Adobe Releases Edge Preview 1: Open Web Folks Rejoice

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

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For some time now there have been rumors that Adobe would be releasing a new tool to create rich web animation without the need for the Flash plugin. Yesterday Adobe released a very early stage of their upcoming “Edge” software and we’ve had a chance to play around with it.  On the surface Edge looks a lot like Flash.  It has a timeline, a stage, and a number of panels to refine animations. While the interface is very reminiscent of Flash its output is what makes it special.  Edge generates 100% HTML / Javascript / CSS which means everything can rendered on any modern device (even iOS devices).

Now what does all this mean to you?  It means cost effective rich web experiences that work on everything are just around the corner.  It is expected that a production version of Edge will be released with CS6 sometime in 2012.

If you want to try Edge out for yourself you can download it from Adobe Labs.

To HTML5, or not to HTML5. That is the question.

Thursday, May 19th, 2011

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With the arrival of HTML5 and its robust feature set, the future for website usability is looking considerably brighter. The big question is, “Are we ready to use HTML5?”

The answer yes, but it’s not that simple.

Not all browsers are built the same.

Although most popular browsers offer HTML5 support, they require the latest version of the browser to be installed. For example, the element “<video>” which is widely used in HTML5, is not supported by IE7 or IE8.

To make things more complicated, not all HTML5 elements are supported by all the latest browser releases. HTML 5 form elements which expand the form field options to date pickers, sliders, validation, and so on, are not fully supported by Internet Explorer 9.

While this may appear to be quite discouraging, there are solutions that can be used to substitute individual HTML5 features not currently supported by a specific browser.

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Why should I use HTML5?

The answer to this question is quite simple. Usability.

Whether it’s on a personal computer or on a mobile device, HTML5 offers a whole slew of long-overdue additions to help users have a richer experience on their browsers. Features such as Geolocation allow your users to share their latitude and longitude locations with trusted web sites, allowing for targeted content delivery. Input field specific keyboards on mobile devices make it much quicker and easier to fill out forms.

And it makes it much easier for Web developers like us to offer videos, design better forms, or build web applications that work offline.

How can I use HTML5 if older browsers don’t support it?

This question is trickier, because HTML5 is not one big option for browsers to support; it is a collection of features. You can detect support for each feature, like video or drag and drop, and compensate for older browsers and the newer ones that don’t fully support that individual feature. For the most part, older browsers ignore the HTML5 elements that they don’t recognize, so you don’t need to discard your old markup. If implemented correctly, you can target the new features natively supported in the latest browsers, without leaving the older ones behind.

So do not be afraid. “Build it and they will come!”

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If you have any questions or comments regarding the reading above, please feel free to contact the author.

Valod Amirkhanian
Programming Director (valod@webenertia.com)
http://www.WebEnertia.com

WebEnertia’s Toy Drive

Thursday, December 9th, 2010

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The Holiday Season is here and what better way to spread the love and cheer than to give a gift this year! WebEnertia would like to invite you to join us in giving the gift of toys to children in need. We will be collecting toys as part of the Toys for Tots Toy Drive. If you would like to participate during this season of giving please bring your new, unwrapped toys to our office by Monday, December 20th. Happy Holidays!

Follow our Toy Drive Progress on our Facebook page!

Bring Down IE6

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

“In today’s market, surrounded by Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera and its own successor, Internet Explorer 7, version 6 of Microsoft’s browser looks positively ancient.”

Bring Down IE6

Join the mission at BringDownIE6.com.

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