Posts Tagged ‘browser’
January 25th, 2010During the Oredev speakers dinner last November, I was having an interesting discussion about the car industry and how Google in one swipe mangled up the turn-to-turn navigation market. During this discussion and other interesting conversations at the following JsConf, it it became more and more clear that we (web developers) should be able to write applications for instance for cars, write applications for phones we can plug into cars, and write those applications using web technologies – meaning JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
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.
March 26th, 2009We have been developing some coding style guide lines to produce better code and make our code easier maintainable and portable. Also thinking about code inspection tools and continuous integration techniques which analyze the code will profit from a well defined and verifyable style.
While discussing a rather simple rule I thought this might be interesting to delve into a bit. You will be surprised how much you can discuss about a simple thing such as a for-loop and that is not only true for JavaScript, I am sure.
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