Trailers

Last Revision:
Version 1.1, 2010-04-20
Updated data source URL.
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Build Requirements:
Dashcode 3.0 or later. Mac OS X 10.6.
Runtime Requirements:
Best viewed in Safari 4 and standards compliant browsers; also works in recent Firefox and Internet Explorer.

This Dashcode Project contains the Trailer web application built on stage at WWDC 2009 Session 208. It fetches and uses an RSS feed from Apple's trailers website to populate its UI. Users can browse and watch trailers of upcoming movies.

This application features Dashcode 3.0 new features, such as:

- dual product support (Desktop Safari as well as mobile Safari web application).

- new parts (split layout, enhanced lists)

- data sources (fetching a feed on apple.com trailers website

- bindings (codeless, binding-driven UI)

- bindings placeholder (for multiple selection)

- bindings value transformers (to convert the rating string into a rating image)

- HTML 5 and CSS3 standards (video tag, CSS animations)