Times web app brings tablet newspaper experience to browser
February 13th, 2012Posted by Paul McNally in Design and graphics, Journalism, Multimedia, Newspapers, Online Journalism
The Times has unveiled an experimental new web application that aims to bring the “newspaper-like” tablet reading experience to ordinary web browsers.
The app, which currently works on Google Chrome and Safari, will be available for a two-week trial from today. Described as “like reading the newspaper, but with all the interactivity of the web”, it features enhanced graphics, picture galleries and videos.
Times web development editor Lucia Adams said on Twitter: “Readers told us they loved the linear reading of our tablet app, so we made it for the web too.”
Existing Times subscribers can test it out here.
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