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Tablet Reading Experience on Desktop
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The non-profit research organization, Center for Public Integrity, has debuted its first HTML5 project, designed to make lengthier stories more palatable for readers using desktop and mobile browsers.

The Center has fashioned a template that mimics the in-app reading experience of newspapers and magazines in a web browser. Content is displayed in a horizontal, wide-screen format devoid of distracting banner ads and links.

Users can pull up a left-hand navigation bar to navigate between story sections, and click on arrows to tab between individual pages. The size and amount of text on display adjusts according to the size of the browser.

Since the template (created in conjunction with Treesaver) is rendered in HTML5, the format is entirely mobile-friendly, bringing the app experience not only to desktops, but to any mobile device with an up-to-date web browser as well.

The template is significantly cheaper to produce than a mobile app for complex operating systems like iOS or Android; more news organizations will thus be able to render digital, app-like experiences without hiring a developer.


http://mashable.com/2010/11/10/center-for-public-integrity-html-5/
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