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On the Viability of HTML5 Games 2 Feb 2012 | 02:46 am
There is sometimes significant rancor within the web development community as we transition from Flash to HTML5/JS for our audio-visual and interactive web content. Let’s look at what went into a rea...
Vibration API coming to Firefox 11 28 Jan 2012 | 02:00 am
The current Aurora release of Firefox includes the Vibration API, a very simple system for making devices rumble. The API consists of a single call to navigator.mozVibrate(). The function accepts a ...
Enyo released 27 Jan 2012 | 03:03 am
HP is slowly open sourcing webOS. Yesterday, they released the Enyo framework with cross-browser support. The heart of Enyo is the enyo.kind() method which dynamically generates a reusable page compo...
HTTP Header Issue in Mobile Safari Can Break AJAX 26 Jan 2012 | 02:00 am
Mike Swieton has reported a bug in Mobile Safari on iOS 5.1. The bug occurs on AJAX-heavy sites that let you download content. Specifically, he experienced it when he clicked to view a PDF inside Mob...
Page Visibility API 25 Jan 2012 | 10:14 am
To date, it has not been easy to tell, using JavaScript, whether the user can see your page or not. Sure, we have load, focus, blur and unload, but these have proven quirky and inconsistent in the pas...
HTML5 Interactive Maps for Both Mobile and Desktop 24 Jan 2012 | 06:39 am
When you think maps, you probably think Google or MapQuest, both of which have interactive maps that are really only optimized for desktop browsers. You have to jump out to a separate app for geo-inte...
Remote console for mobile web diagnosis 21 Jan 2012 | 02:00 am
Remy Sharp has developed a tool for remotely debugging web pages. This works using code injection, so be very sure to keep it out of production environments. However, when you need to diagnosis issues...
Incremental MD5 with AMD support 20 Jan 2012 | 02:07 am
As we all know, MD5 is a fast hashing algorithm. While its numerous security holes make it undesirable for encryption, it is pervasive and convenient for quickly generating quasi-unique ID’s. While J...
TWSS: Naive Bayes Classifier and k-Nearest Neighbor library for NodeJS 19 Jan 2012 | 02:00 am
TWSS is an acronym that stands for That’s What She Said, a joke frequently abused by the character Michael Scott on the US version of The Office. Why would anyone write a library that tells you whethe...
jQ.Mobi: Less compatible, but better performance 18 Jan 2012 | 02:00 am
The plain reality is that the vast majority of mobile web traffic is on Android and iOS devices. BlackBerry users have, by and large, been so disappointed by the poor web experience out of the box tha...
