December 2nd, 2009Porting a W3C widget to webOS should not take a lot of effort, should it? webOS is built on top of web technologies, and in my mind the web is tagged “#universal”. But unfortunately, webOS isn’t universal. It’s different. I’m going to show you which differences you need to be aware of when doing cross-platform development and your application is supposed to run on webOS. Read the rest of this entry »
November 27th, 2009
In a recent project a client asked for boxes with rounded corners and filled with a gradient; within an application targeted at smartphones.
On mobile devices it is important to keep things simple, for instance to keep the number of DOM nodes low. That rules out using additional elements for the corners. On the other hand, many mobile devices are featuring recent versions of web rendering engines. Dive into CSS 3.
Modern web development techniques offer a lot of possibilities to render boxes with rounded corners: e.g. border-radius, border-image, or SVG used as background. In this post I’m going to explore the support for them across different devices and runtime environments. You can skip to the results table if all you want is a quick overview.
As stated above, I want to achieve a box with rounded corners and a gradient that reaches from top to bottom, scaling to the height of the box. The example might be simple, but it is representing a common design goal.
November 10th, 2009
September 27th, 2009
August 12th, 2009August 9th was the day for the first Dojo event in Israel and thanks to Yoav Rubin from IBM Research Labs in Haifa, we were able to hold the event in the great Auditorium of the amazingly located IBM building in Haifa.
To give you a little impression of what kind of working environment the folks at IBM have, I uploaded a panorama image from Yoav’s office.
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July 30th, 2009The news have been announced already on the Dojotoolkit.org and Dojocampus.org blogs but I nevertheless wanted to mention the dojo.workshop in Haifa, Israel on August 9th.
Already now we have more than 50 signups and thanks to Yoav Rubin from IBM research labs we can have a full day of Dojo-ness.
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July 28th, 2009Last Thursday I was at the #gtugmuc which was really packed this time. For being the second #gtug in Munich I am very impressed how quickly people reacted and attended. I think a main reason is that Google was hosting it and showing android stuff.
After the two android talks (Damon Kohler about Android Scripting Engine and Markus Junginger about Android in general, slides and links) a lot of people had already left, which made the at least 30°C in the room a bit more comfortable. I was a little scared that my JSONP-hack talk would be boring for the people who stayed, since android seemed to be the main topic of the evening. But I think it went quite well and be sure to see more coming from our side regarding this topic, there are plans. And we are still hoping for Google to provide JSONP natively for spreadsheets, without the necessity of this hack. But haven’t heard anything about it yet either. Jens Trapp closed the evening with his talk about Google AppEngine, which as I have heard supports Java now too, nice! Unfortunately I had to miss out on the socializing part afterwards, so I didn’t get to hear the interesting stuff that always goes around then, but read about it in blog posts etc. about #gtug. And it was really nice to meet Darren Cooper and the Frankfurt WebMontag people, they came all the way from Frankfurt just for that evening, awesome! See you in FF on the 10th of August!
Last but not least: A huge thanks to Nils Hitze who organized it all, it was a huge success, Nils you rock!