Archive for April, 2010
April 28th, 2010Safari om the iPhone is an incredible powerful browser and comes with a whole bunch of features.
Besides the amazing support for CSS3, a superfast rendering engine and great JavaScript support, there are a few hidden gems I want to explain in this (and maybe following) blogposts. If you are interested in mobile web development, maybe you will find a few features you haven’t seen before.
Making your web app iPhone ready
Note: you can visit the example used in this blog post from your iPhone here.
April 27th, 2010Dion Almaer was faster than me blogging about TouchScroll. Here is what you are waiting for – the “official” blog post about TouchScroll and the link to the repository.
Here it is: TouchScroll, our scrolling layer for WebKit Mobile. It is JavaScript/CSS 3 based and allows for fixed elements like headers and toolbars on web pages when viewed on the iPhone or on Android. It works on the iPad, too. Check out the demo (short URL: http://u.nu/8uvg8) to see it in action – it works in Desktop Safari (at least kind of) or WebKit Nightly (very good), but I recommend you have a look at it on your iPhone, iPad, or Android based device.
April 2nd, 2010JavaScript allows to comma-separate multiple variable declarations, like so: var i=0, j=1. Declaring multiple variables using one var-statement accross multiple lines is a NO GO! I consider this evil. And I learned it the hard way. It might look pretty nice, looks like less code and more efficient. But it definitely is not so when writing code. If it results in more speed let your build tool, compressor or compiler do it. But don’t write code which spreads multiple variable declarations in var-statement across multiple lines!
PERIOD.
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