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6.2.3 iBooks / OS X Profile
The third publishing profile, iBooks / oS X, creates a widget that can be used in
two ways. Firstly, the exported
wdgt
files can be used in Apple's authoring tool,
iBooks Author, as an enhancement to multi-touch books. Moreover, widgets ex-
ported with this setting can be added to the dashboard on the OS X operating
system. The latter is a nice side effect that enables you to produce at least simple
desktop applications with Edge Animate. Since Windows 8 increasingly relies
on the use of web standards for desktop applications, the integration of Edge
Animate compositions on the Windows desktop will likely be possible in the
near future.
.
iBooks / OS X
Please note that this profile does not
allow the use of GIF files.
Figure 6.9
Edge Animate compositions can also be
used in Apple's iBooks Author
6.3 Lessons
6.3.1 Publishing Compositions With FTP
If you want to publish a stand-alone composition on the web, it is best to upload
the files from the
publish/web
folder described above, using FTP (File Transfer
Protocol). You can use any web server, since Edge Animate compositions consist
exclusively of static HTML and JavaScript files and must be uploaded without
additional server logic. If an animation is supposed to run directly on a domain
or a folder without specifying the actual file name, you can rename the primary
HTML file of your project (e.g.
SimpleAnimation.html
to
index.html
).
