Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
HP continues to divulge bits and pieces of a road map for the ill-starred and nearly-orphaned webOS. The company has followed up its December plan to release webOS mobile platform and development tools with a proposed timeline, with a full release set before year’s end. Some people see a life for the associated Enyo JavaScript Read the rest…
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
Category: JavaScript, Mobile
As it kicked off its yearly developer event, Adobe announced that it had acquired Nitobi Software, maker of PhoneGap open source software for cross-platform mobile application building with HTML5 and JavaScript. In a blog, Nitobi CEO Andre Charland pledged to pursue donation of the PhoneGap code to the Apache Software Foundation ”to ensure open stewardship Read the rest…
Friday, March 4th, 2011
jQuery Mobile Alpha 3 increases browser support to include Firefox Mobile, Opera Mobile / Mini. Improvements reported on support for iOS, Android, BlackBerry 6, and Palm WebOS. Moreover, the Ajax navigation system has been … deeply re-factored to improve performance and handle more edge cases. This includes event handling for click, submit, and hashchange, all Read the rest…
Thursday, February 17th, 2011
Performance Wonk Steve Souders has announced Jdrop – described as a JSON repository in the cloud. It builds on his work with Mobile Perf javaScript meta-bookmarklets that can work as profilers for mobile devices. Bookmarklets gather data and display data. The data can be saved to Jdrop. For analysis. Souders blogs: It was pretty simple Read the rest…
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
Category: Android, Firefox
, Mobile
A new beta for mobile this way comes. Outstanding issues addressed include reduced memory usage, improved text rendering install size reduction on Android.
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
Category: Mobile
If you're working with mobile browsers tinySrc will dynamically scale your images down to the right size on the server side: PLAIN TEXT HTML: http://i.tinysrc.mobi/http://mysite.com/myimage.png To use, you simply prefix the URL to your image with a pointer to tinysrc: PLAIN TEXT HTML: <img src='http://i.tinysrc.mobi/http://mysite.com/myimage.png' alt='My image' /> tinySrc will then do the Read the rest...
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
Category: Mobile
James Pearce has started a fascinating series, called WhitherApps.com, trying to rewrite the BBC iPhone application and other native mobile apps using HTML5. From the kickoff blog post: WhitherApps is a bandwagon-busting experiment. I believe there are far too many native client apps which could have been far better written as mobile web apps. What Read the rest...
Friday, August 13th, 2010
I have had the pleasure to start working with the awesome jQuery team on a new mobile development. Today, John announced jQuery Mobile, "a unified user interface system across all popular mobile device platforms, built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation." Palm has sponsored the effort with other great folks, and I wrote Read the rest...
Friday, June 18th, 2010
Category: JavaScript, Mobile
, Usability
Using the mobile Web with modern devices that give you the "full Web" and allow you to zoom in and out on the page (if zooming hasn't been turned off of course). Sam Stephenson (of Prototype and 37Signals fame) has taken on the problem of the sizing of controls. If you zoom out, normally, controls Read the rest...
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Category: JavaScript, Library
, Mobile
, Sencha
As I walked around Moscone last week, I saw some prophets speaking of a future that isn't all Native. A future where the Web is the platform. Others saw it too: I pondered who would be behind the act and smiled as I had a good idea. The group behind this all is the newly Read the rest...
Monday, June 7th, 2010
Category: iPhone, Mobile
, WebOS
Steve Gill of Nitobi has posted about a PhoneGap application called SnowReports. The application is open source and forkable on GitHub and shows how you can take a mobile Web application and port it between iPhone, Android, and webOS (and PhoneGap itself can even go beyond to other platforms such as Nokia/Blackberry). Steve also put Read the rest...
Thursday, May 6th, 2010
Category: JavaScript, Mobile
, Performance
Douglas "My Guns Are Bigger Than Yours" Crockford sent us a pointer to Moonwatcher's post on entitled "My MacBook Pro runs JavaScript 26.7x as fast as my iPad". After Moonwatcher ran SunSpider on the iPad, he concluded: It's one thing not to be able to run Flash apps. But JavaScript performance like this effectively means Read the rest...
Friday, April 30th, 2010
Category: Mobile
Twitter released an official Android application today that looks clean and to the point. A mobile Web version of a Twitter client, Tweet Me was released on webOS, and I think it raises the bar. It is beautiful and a pleasure to use: This is a segue into some posts that I have penned recently Read the rest...
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
Category: Mobile
David Aurelio of the awesome Uxebu has been working on TouchScroll, a library that implements scrolling in a way that mimics the native scrolling of a device such as an iPhone, Android, or Pre. Other libraries such as jQtouch and the Mojo library itself (used in Ares) do this work too in their own worlds. Read the rest...
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
Opera Mini made it into the Apple Store yesterday. People weren't sure if it would make it in (as it duplicates functionality from Apple) but it did. This is good news. From playing with it myself, I feel a little like @gruber but what is more interesting to me is that there is room for Read the rest...
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
Jacky Nguyen was behind a new website ExpatLiving from Singapore, and as he built out a nice view for iPhone and mobile Webkit folks, he implemented MooTouch. It is still in an early stage, and is asking for input: MooTouch is a cutting-edge JavaScript framework built on top of MooTools that truly brings the experiences Read the rest...
Caching and dynamic views
My client does not want to change his cache settings on IE and I'm trying to figure out a way to dynamically update a view each time it is visited. I...
IE 8 Crashing Problem
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two iSeries boxes - Dev and Prod both V5R4M0
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JQuery Function Not Defined?
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