Is This Really The Future of Magazines or Why Didn’t They Just Use HTML 5?

29 May 2010

However, what strikes me most about the Wired app is how amazingly similar it is to a multimedia CD-ROM from the 1990’s. This is not a compliment and actually turns out to be a fairly large problem…

I’m a fan of the Wired app – more on that soon – but its construction (lots of .pngs with some XML glue) seems woefully inefficient.