Showing posts with label Android vs iPhone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Android vs iPhone. Show all posts
Sunday
HTML 5 in Web Pages and Mobile Technology
Hypertext Markup Language is principally second-hand to plausibly formatting a meticulous webpage via signify detailed semantics to the intact satisfied. HTML5 is the most recent description of HTML and XHTML. HTML5 brings in new elements to structure the web pages as compared to HTML4 which uses common structures such as: – header, columns etc.
These new elements are: header, nav, section, article, aside, and footer.
Now, each of these elements serves a unique purpose:-
‘header’ denotes the inclusion of heading, sub headings etc. which is more specific.
‘nav’ signifies both the website navigation as well as the navigation of the table of contents.
‘section’ element corresponds to a broad category of a web page.
‘article’ element symbolizes a particular section of web page such as: blog, news, testimonials etc.
‘aside’ element is used to include the content that may relate to a specific section of a document or a web page.
‘footer’ element is used to indicate important information like copyright data, the author’s name, links to other pages etc.
HTML5 brings a whole new dimension to web world. It can embed video on web-pages without using any special software like Flash.
Not only videos, HTML5 is said to be capable of playing video games on the browser itself (8-bit games have been tried on it).
Besides this, HTML5 is considered to be flexible to handle inaccurate syntax. HTML5 specifies the rules related to the parsing and lexing as compared to HTML4. This means that even if there is an incorrect syntax, similar result is produced by various complaint browsers.
Furthermore, HTML5 denotes to scripting of API (application programming interfaces) including new APIs like:-
Drag and drop
Database storage offline
Editing of the document
Canvas 2D APIs, etc.
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Tuesday
Android vs iPhone - Easy comparison report
Android vs iPhone
Advantages of Android
- SMS delivery report - for the IPhone you need a third party apparently
- Notifications without INTERNET - one of the biggest drawback of the IPhone is that you cannot have notifications without Internet -> the notifications are stored on the Apple servers
- Can install applications from any site - IPhone applications can only be installed from the Apple store (unless the phone is jail broken)
- Multiple physical menu buttons - used for navigation and quick shortcuts, allows greater screen size (no more software menus)
- Physical menu button allows recent 6 tasks (like ALT+TAB in Windows) - absolutely useful
- The Home screen is organized in 3, 4 or 5 virtual screens, the rest of the applications lie in a list - usability, quick to access most used apps - on the IPhone there are "limitless" virtual screens on Home
- Can install on the Home screen - widgets, shortcuts, folders
- Physical keyboard - on some models
- Open source OS
- Can install different/homebrewed firmwares
- Can install home brewed apps
- Background apps/ multitasking
- can make own application to hook into anything - calling, traffic, media, encryption, etc
- Dev SDK is free and cross platform. IPhone is for $100+ and only works on MAC.
- Programming is done in Java, bridges exist from J2ME, C#, etc. IPhone uses Objective C
- Programming - can run interpreters. IPhone only allows running Objective C byte code
- Easy access to the SD card (both from computer and from the phone). can copy MP3s, read ebooks, etc
- Cheaper than the IPhone
- Easy removable/replaceable battery.
- 5 mega pixel camera + blitz/flash + More
- Screen brightness/clarity
- Bigger sofware keyboard - because of the wider screen
- Great 3D apps and harware
- Easy data synchronization
- Proximity sensor - saves battery and "locks" the screen
- Zoom using two fingers - pictures, browser, etc - though some Android phones also support multi touch
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