If you want to use a CSS modification for the iPad (as I do), this is how you tell the iPad to use an additional CSS file:

<link rel="stylesheet" media="only screen and (max-device-width: 1024px)" href="../ipad.css" type="text/css" />

Because of the other browsers not knowing how to handle this type of media string they won’t interpret it. The ipad.css will be interpreted by the iPhone, too. So if you need some specific CSS also for the iPhone, you proceed equally but with max-device-with: 480px.

Unlike Flash or Silverlight, which are presentational and therefore deliver a fixed view for users to experience, the Web’s native HTML only describes content semantically, so users and their browser can interpret how they want to experience that information.

HTML supports flexible presentation using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), a technology that can scale Web content and complexity to accommodate the limitation of mobile devices, accessibility issues for the blind or physically impaired, or simply customize information presentation to fit the desires of Web users.

Morgan Adams, an interactive content developer with a lot of experience with Flash recently explained that most of today’s existing Flash-based games, navigation elements, and other content is oriented toward mouse-centric desktop and simply can not work well in a multitouch environment like the iPhone or Apple’s upcoming iPad, where there is no mouseover.

Adobe is working to push out new enhancements to Flash to accommodate touch-centric environments in new content, but developers have to weigh whether sticking with Adobe’s platform makes sense now that HTML5 delivers much of the functionality of Flash without dependance upon Adobe. Apple’s staunchly Flash-free mobile platforms are helping to tilt that decision in favor of open standards.

via AppleInsider.

Read also my own article on that topic.

Normalerweise sagen ja nur Nazis Dinge wie “Das ist kühl”! Selbige betreiben auch “Weltnetz-Seiten” und tragen Gesichtserker durch die Gegend. Doch heute soll alles anders werden. Die kühlen Fotos sind weder braun-inspiriert, noch BRAUN-inspiriert und scheinen auch sonst in einem vor allem tiefkühlverköstigenden Look daherzukommen.

Created for the Kühlschrankfoto-Aktion by Stijlroyal.

So what can you do when you are in a pretty low illuminated room and you want still smooth, warm but crisp photographs?

I want to give you some tips on how to shoot sharp and beautiful photos without using a flash like I did on my last Berlin vacation:

1. The correct holding of the camera: Mr Freeze

In low-light situations you have to be “frozen”. To ease your posture keep your arms holding the camera near the body. Your elbows should be parallel to your torso.

The most common mistake is the trigger: By pushing the trigger button the camera moves exactly when you shoot the photo. To avoid that, roll the fingertip over the trigger button instead of moving it down – like you would create a finger print.

2. Keep an eye on the shutter speed

Play with your shutter speed but remember: Increasing it means less light, decreasing it means more vibrations.

3. Choose the biggest aperture of your lens

The bigger the aperture – the more light can go through the lens. So go all the way down to the lowest f.

Even better: Buy a fixed-focus lens with a big aperture. My one has f/1.8 and costs around 100 bucks. The f/1.4 model costs around 400 bucks.

As you know, a big aperture means more depth the field means that only your focused object is sharp. The background and foreground is blurry (like on the image above).

4. Still to dark? Try the ISO

If the photo is still to dark you have another possibility: The ISO. Usually the setting is on “Auto” which means 400 ISO for the most time. Choosing a higher ISO (e.g. 800) will lighten up your photo. But be careful: Too much ISO will increase the noise of the image.

If you have a good camera you can choose ISO 800 without worrying. Others even have good results with ISO 1600.

5. White balance adjustments avoid “red photos”

In a darkened room with synthetic light from bulbs you will get photos which are pretty redish. The reason for that is the wavelength of this kind of light. While the light from the sun is white, this one is very red. To remove this red tone – if you don’t want it – you can change the White Balance (WB on your camera). For instance 3200 K or 4000 K.

More info: http://blog.pantoffelpunk.de/brechmittel/angriffskrieg-angriffskrieg, http://www.schockwellenreiter.de/blog/2010/02/21/die-piratenpartei-hat-ein-problem/, http://www.ennomane.de/2009/12/02/aaron-koenig-und-das-ding-mit-den-plesbiziten/ (german)

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Update: I got one.

Update 2: The invitation code is already taken. Sorry.

I started with Photoshop 6.0 – Pretty late, but I’m young. Ha!

Older work.

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First of all, Apple don’t just hate Adobe or Flash. Apple and Adobe were friends for a long time – especially on Photoshop – and still are. And some whimpering Flash fanatics won’t stop that. Apple even gave permission for Flash CS5 compiled Flash applications on the iPhone (and I guess also on the iPad in the future). But: Apple will never support Flash on web sites. And this leads to my first point.

What Flash did was that it forced the browser what the web paradigm doesn’t allow: It made the browser behave application-like and not browser-like. For large applications this may be helpful, but the web isn’t there for large apps. The web is defined as links, openess and transparency. Flash does application-GUI and closeness.  Areas aren’t clickable, context-menus fuck up and selection of text, saving of images and all this stuff you expect from a web site is not working. You cannot just set an anchor – you have to code it. This is really important to understand. Flash is a whole new application inside of an application.

Flash is the incarnation of inconsistency in behavior and design on a web site. Flash content is just like Java applets in the early 00’s.

In addition to the the “applicationization” there are two other very important problems: High CPU usage and plugin technology. Browsers were not able to render animations by themselves in the past and even the standards doing static stuff were just coming up – as always: Standards are slow, but when they finally arrive they rock the parlor.

And this is why Flash-blocking services like ClickToFlash became so popular. Even if you’ve got a current computer model, with 4 GB RAM and an awesome processor – Flash will still crank up the CPU usage. Everything is better than an “unsuspected crash” of a plugin – even small blue legos. And these blue legos will go away over the next few months – bigger platforms – and years.

Plugin technology is on its way out. Maemo – by the way – dropped plugin support on their Firefox port:

The Adobe Flash plugin used on many sites degraded the performance of the browser to the point where it didn’t meet our standards.

Jeff Zeldman in words:

Flash won’t die tomorrow, but plug-in technology is on its way out.

There is no reason for flash anymore. There is HTML5 for video, audio and all stuff you did in Flash and a huge improvement on the Semantic Web. In addition to CSS3 which brings great layout techniques, animation, web fonts and stuff like that. And highly performant JavaScript (engines).

Everything you can imagine and everything which was done with Flash in the past is now available for all modern browsers – of course also on the iPhone and all smartphones supporting HTML5, JS engines and CSS3. Flash coders, who behave a bit like wounded deers, posted some ideas where to replace Flash for the advantage of HTML5 and JavaScript.

HTML5 is open-standard, system-rendered and accessible. Flash isn’t able to offer only one piece of that.

This is performance, dude.

And please, Adobe, don’t loose the rest of the world by keeping your ears shut. It is not about features and updates, it is about the philosophy behind the web. And this philosophy isn’t compatible to Flash.