Google launches new free Web Designer app, to create HTML5 Creative

Google has launched a new and apparently a Photoshop like tool called 'Web Designer' however it is more for creating HTML5 creatives, animations, banners and ads with design and coding layout options, though you weren't required to do coding to use this tool. Google says it has launched this tool in order to unleash the possibility of HTML5 where you can build once use it everywhere - desktop, mobiles or tablets. Everything you create in this app is accessible on any screen or devices without any compatibility issues.

Google Web Designer in public beta stage and Google says that this Web Designer app will be the key to making HTML5 accessible to people throughout the industry, getting us closer to the goal of "build once, run anywhere."

If you want to have a quick look creatives, animations made using this app would look like you can visit the app's own home page to see it, as animations on its homepage were created using Google Web Designer itself.

HTML5 is widely seen as the standard that everyone on the Web should adopt it is a universal language for building beautiful, engaging content that can run across desktops, smartphones, and tablets. Google also says that as per research advertisers expect the amount of mobile and tablet work they do to increase by 41% over the next 12 months, and over 67% of respondents believe that it’s important to design specifically for mobile campaigns.

Google Web Designer enables you to:

1. Create animated HTML5 creative, with a robust, yet intuitive set of design tools.


2. View and edit the code behind your designs and see your edits reflected back on the stage automatically.


3. Build ad creatives seamlessly for DoubleClick and AdMob, or publish them to any generic environment you choose.


4. Receive updates to the product automatically, without having to re-download the application.

And of-course access all of this entirely for free.

You can read through  getting started guide of Google Web Designer and can also send Google feedback about the app, share your ideas via app's user forum or it's Google+ page.

Internet Explorer 9 revealed, supports CSS3/HTML5, faster than Firefox

Microsoft has revealed the preview-only/test version of its all new Internet Explorer 9 far better than any of its earlier versions and especially because the standards IE used to follow are way back than any modern browser.  At MIX 10, a interactive gathering event of Microsoft and  innovative web professionals, Dean Hachamovitch presented the insight depth of "early look" phase of IE9.

This preview of IE9 is more targeted towards web developers/ designers to let them know and take advantage of new things they can do while developing web apps or websites.  Developers can have early look at IE 9 development here.

The prominent development and new things of Internet Explorer 9 are :

• A new JavaScript engine for IE9 which is designed to make Internet Explorer faster (faster than Firefox 3.6).


• Support for HTML5.


• IE9 now extensively support DOM, CSS3, SVG standards and XHTML.
  Able to render box-shadow, text-shadow and border-radius like CSS3 properties


• IE9 is the first browser designed to hardware accelerated graphics

Interestingly, the new JavaScript engine of IE9 is said to be faster than shipping version of Firefox today as per Webkit.org’s SunSpider benchmark test.

However, the available Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview is not be used as regular browse and it doesn’t even have a "back" button. But it released to run along with regular browser and is simply a preview and more specifically for developers/ designers so as to help them developing their web apps.