From the course: Creating HTML Layouts with InDesign
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Why HTML? - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Creating HTML Layouts with InDesign
Why HTML?
- In this video, we'll be asking the question, why we're exporting HTML in the first place. Well, if this were 2006, and we wanted to export rich, interactive content. we'd most certainly be talking about Flash. But with the introduction of mobile devices, and more specifically, Apple's decision not to support the Flash Player on its devices, that led many of us on a search for how to make our content more universally viewable. Well, here's the case for HTML. It's both desktop and mobile friendly. It's an open standard, so it's not gonna taken away by any one, single company. It's the language of the web, so it's already viewable on every modern browser. It's text-based, so it's easy to open, easy to edit, it's not really hiding much from you. In addition to HTML being universal at its core, it's also an easy format to port into other formats such as mobile apps, which we'll take a look at in later videos. And, before we press on, you might be asking the question, "Why not just use…
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