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Great question by Gruber: "There's got to be a developer kit for making these HTML5 iAds, right?" (http://twitter.com/gruber/statuses/11835821330 http://twitte

Great question by Gruber: "There's got to be a developer kit for making these HTML5 iAds, right?" (http://twitter.com/gruber/statuses/11835821330 http://twitter.com/gruber/statuses/11835821330) Even before this I started thinking that an online app that made HTML5 banner creation cheap & easy would be huge. Now, jeez, seems like a no-brainer.

wallflower 17y ago
You've got a couple months before OS4.0 goes live. Hope you go for it! Quick idea: quick-start ad templates that can be created and shared and sold. But not outright community sourcing, invite required. Threadless mashed with iStockPhoto. Also, thumbs up/thumbs down to allow consumer vote on the iAd
- adamhowell 17y ago
  +1 on templates. Plus: pay extra for hosting, stats, A/B testing, etc. We brainstormed this idea a couple months ago but put it on the backburner because of still poor HTML5 support across browsers, etc. Fall is a ridiculous deadline... but, admittedly, also an inspiring one ;)
  - bkudria 17y ago
    Actually, Apple hosts the ads. I guess that might limit your ability to do A/B testing, too. It all depends on how Apple structures the ad submission process. From Steve's pause before responding to the "will ads need to be approved?" question, I am going to guess they haven't entirely fleshed it all out, yet.
xsmasher 17y ago
This is a problem for HTML5 content in general, isn't it? There's nothing on par with the Flash editor for creating HTML5. Adobe is the company I'd expect to create a visual HTML5 editor, but they're not going to give up the Flash war.
- gamble 17y ago
  A good HTML 5 authoring tool is going to be so valuable, that whoever has the balls to built it is going to look pretty smart in a couple of years... and Adobe is either going to buy them, or ride Flash down into irrelevance.
  - nailer 17y ago
    It may be Adobe that creates it (or it may not).
    - mambodog 17y ago
      I'm thinking Adobe is going to build one, and its going to do horrible 'one size fits all' type stuff, like Dreamweaver.
blasdel 17y ago
It's called Dashcode, and it ships with the OS X Developer Tools.

wallflower 17y ago

You've got a couple months before OS4.0 goes live. Hope you go for it! Quick idea: quick-start ad templates that can be created and shared and sold. But not outright community sourcing, invite required. Threadless mashed with iStockPhoto. Also, thumbs up/thumbs down to allow consumer vote on the iAd

adamhowell 17y ago
+1 on templates. Plus: pay extra for hosting, stats, A/B testing, etc. We brainstormed this idea a couple months ago but put it on the backburner because of still poor HTML5 support across browsers, etc. Fall is a ridiculous deadline... but, admittedly, also an inspiring one ;)
- bkudria 17y ago
  Actually, Apple hosts the ads. I guess that might limit your ability to do A/B testing, too. It all depends on how Apple structures the ad submission process. From Steve's pause before responding to the "will ads need to be approved?" question, I am going to guess they haven't entirely fleshed it all out, yet.

xsmasher 17y ago

This is a problem for HTML5 content in general, isn't it? There's nothing on par with the Flash editor for creating HTML5. Adobe is the company I'd expect to create a visual HTML5 editor, but they're not going to give up the Flash war.

gamble 17y ago
A good HTML 5 authoring tool is going to be so valuable, that whoever has the balls to built it is going to look pretty smart in a couple of years... and Adobe is either going to buy them, or ride Flash down into irrelevance.
- nailer 17y ago
  It may be Adobe that creates it (or it may not).
  - mambodog 17y ago
    I'm thinking Adobe is going to build one, and its going to do horrible 'one size fits all' type stuff, like Dreamweaver.

blasdel 17y ago

It's called Dashcode, and it ships with the OS X Developer Tools.