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Kayaking on Halong Bay

arno — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:41:15 +0000

The outline of the island we had moored by for the night was barely visible when I wake up this morning. I get out of bed, swallow a cup of Vietnamese cà phê, and join the guide to the kayaks that are already waiting for us by the side of the junk. . The air [...]

Create The Web — Appliness Interview

arno — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 06:03:43 +0000

The following interview was published in a special issue of the Appliness magazine. You can download it from iTunes or the Google Play store. Hi Arno, can you introduce yourself to our readers? Hi Appliness! I live in the beautiful city by the bay, San Francisco. I was born in France and I came over [...]

Create The Web

arno — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 05:56:22 +0000

Today in San Francisco, we kicked off Create the Web, a worldwide tour for interactive web designers and developers and partners that will provide us with the opportunity to share Adobe’s vision for the web. Our mission is to make the web better and to build the best tools in the world for web designers [...]

Burning Man 2012

arno — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 01:22:57 +0000

Every year at the end of August, a temporary city emerges from the Nevada desert. The 60,000 citizens of Black Rock City are encouraged to be radically self-reliant: there is no food, water or electricity, and the only concession to this lack of infrastructure are the Porta-Potties. There is nothing for sale; the city is [...]

Blue Beanie Day 2011: hooray for web standards

arno — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:06:42 +0000

Eight years ago Jeffrey Zeldman wrote the seminal “Designing with Web Standards”, a book that encouraged developers to build content targeting web standards rather than any particular browser. On the cover of his book, Jeffrey wore a blue beanie which has become the annually celebrated emblem of support for web standards. Show your support, and [...]

AFTERMAX 2011: HTML news

arno — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 03:16:05 +0000

Download my presentation at SILVAFUG San Jose/San Francisco on some of our HTML-related announcements earlier this month at MAX 2011: AFTERMAX HTML Useful Links Learn more about PhoneGap and PhoneGap Build Learn more about TypeKit, the easiest way to use real fonts on your website Download the Adobe Edge Preview, the motion and interaction design [...]

Here’s to the crazy one

arno — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 04:57:50 +0000

Here’s to the crazy one. The misfit. The rebel. The troublemaker. The round peg in the square hole. The one who saw things differently. He wasn’t fond of rules. And he had no respect for the status quo. You can quote him, disagree with him, glorify or vilify him. About the only thing you can’t [...]

MAX 2011: Mobile apps that WOW!

arno — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 07:47:07 +0000

Download the slide deck of my presentation at MAX 2011: Mobile apps that WOW! References Using screen orientation APIs for smartphone application development by Daniel Dura. Native Text Input with StageText by Christian Cantrell Installation and deployment options in Adobe AIR 3 by Oliver Goldman Adobe Touch Apps family Native extensions for Adobe AIR: list [...]

Living in the cloud

arno — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:22:21 +0000

I’ve spent a few days with a Samsung Series 5 Chromebook. It’s an interesting device powered by a custom version of Linux. All the user interaction is accomplished through a fullscreen version of the Chrome browser. Although I’ve been using Chrome as my main desktop browser for a while, there’s a number of things that [...]

Demo of CSS Regions

arno — Tue, 10 May 2011 18:48:17 +0000

We have been working on a proposal to enhance CSS by adding a couple of new building blocks to build more sophisticated, magazine-like layouts to the web. We have released a prototype based on WebKit along with some samples which you can go download at http://adobe.com/go/cssregions. In the meantime, here’s a short demo video.