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    Canvas Deep Dive Source is Released

    July 24th, 2012

    I mentioned a few days ago that I updated my Canvas Deep Dive ebook and dropped the price to free. But wait, there's more! I've also completely open sourced the book. My goal with Deep Dive was always to disseminate information as widely as possible. There is no better way to do that than giving it to the world.

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    Tagged: canvas ebooks

    HTML Canvas book for iPad is out!

    March 23rd, 2012

    I'm very happy to announce that my interactive book, HTML Canvas: A Travelogue, is now available for the iPad. It includes the same great content as the webOS version: a complete introduction to HTML Canvas with interactive examples, for just $4.99. Several bugs have been fixed in this build, which are coming soon to webOS as well.

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    Tagged: canvas ebooks

    HTML Canvas : an Interactive Travelogue

    March 12th, 2012

    As you know, I've been doing a lot of ebook prototyping lately. Ever since the iBooks 2 announcement I've had this idea stuck in my head that we can make rich interactive ebooks using nothing but web technology. That lead to the toolkit I've been working on, now open sourced on github. As the first thing written with that toolkit I'm proud to announce my first interactive book: HTML Canvas, a Travelogue.

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    Tagged: ebooks palm webos

    IFRAME, you are dead to me

    March 7th, 2012

    I know IFRAME, I know. We've had a good run. You've tried hard and back in the day you were somethin' special. The way you could bring in content from any domain was nothing short of amazing, and you certainly took out the trash when you bumped off FRAMESET. But that was then and this is now. A lot has changed in the past few years. CSS and AJAX are really hitting their stride and you just can't hack it. I'm willing to overlook a few margin bugs, but this?! Well thisĀ is simply the last straw.

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    Tagged: ebooks rant

    Ebook Improvements

    February 22nd, 2012

    Over the past few weeks I've done more experiments and improvements to my ebook prototype. I'm still not sure what I'm going to do with it once I'm all done, but it's been an educational exercise nonetheless. Here's what I've done so far:

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    Tagged: amino ebooks

    My final draft is done: Building Mobile Applications with Java

    February 17th, 2012

    The book is done!

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    Tagged: ebooks java

    iBooks and an HTML Experiment

    January 23rd, 2012

    With all of the hoopla last week about the innovative features in the new iBooks 2 I thought it would be instructive to see what could be done with pure HTML 5. I put together a little demo which adapts to screen sizes and has simple interactive content. Here's what it looks like:

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    Tagged: code ebooks

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