iPad format for 24/7 mag?

Markham

Just had a look at France 24's Congo documentary on the office iPad in here - the first documentary package done specifically for the iPad.

Nicely done, the pics look great and the images are added to with embedded audio and the likes.

Wouldn't it be amazing to see the likes of 24/7 done in a format like this?

http://www.france24.com/en/20100802-france-24-launches-worlds-first-ipad-documentary-democratic-republic-congo-kivu-rape

democrates

Takes me back to the multimedia cd-rom craze of the 90's

Same thing, a mix of text, photographs, audio, and video which the user can browse in different ways. I wonder if it's the first multimedia production availing of the multi-touch interface though, there must be some flash on android examples...

Being locked into a single proprietary device I'd guess is more a pr gimmick than strategic direction. Universal support for HTML5 with scriptable canvas elements and the google-supported WebM a/v container would make a nice open future...

Ricky91t

Issuu are developing an iPhone app at the moment so hopefully if/when there is another 24/7 magazine the app will of been released

Edit: When we're able to download the magazine from issuu you can sink it to your device( if it's downloaded as a PDF ) using iTunes, You need the latest version of iTunes and the latest version of iBooks on your device though.

TinyExplosions

democrates wrote: »

Takes me back to the multimedia cd-rom craze of the 90's

Same thing, a mix of text, photographs, audio, and video which the user can browse in different ways. I wonder if it's the first multimedia production availing of the multi-touch interface though, there must be some flash on android examples...

Being locked into a single proprietary device I'd guess is more a pr gimmick than strategic direction. Universal support for HTML5 with scriptable canvas elements and the google-supported WebM a/v container would make a nice open future...

I don't think it's practical to try and get a iPad specific app for a 25hr magazine, as it can take weeks for Apple to put em in the App Store, so a HTML5 + canvas web-based solution would be better, but a good one would really be stretching it in 24hrs

democrates

TinyExplosions wrote: »

I don't think it's practical to try and get a iPad specific app for a 25hr magazine, as it can take weeks for Apple to put em in the App Store, so a HTML5 + canvas web-based solution would be better, but a good one would really be stretching it in 24hrs

Yeah the time element is a big issue for sure, there's so much to pull together.

A great example of the problem is all the flash-based websites that are out of date, they got the wow factor at launch but updates are time-consuming and priced accordingly. We may get multimedia based on open standards but people will still use it in the wrong place...