Movember Themed Bookmarklet
Chris Price, November 24th, 2011
I recently came across the mustachify.me service. Inspired by Movember, I just had to spread the mo-ssage. One bookmarklet later, I can now man-up any page* I deem appropriate. I’ve picked some likely stooges from Scott Logic for you to test the link out on. Admire them first with their frankly boyish faces, before clicking [...]
Full Frontal Conference 2011
Chris Price, November 15th, 2011
Last Friday I headed down to Brighton for the annual Full Frontal conference. It was my first time there and I’m very glad I made the trip. The quality and breadth of the talks given far exceeded my expectations. Thanks to Remy Sharp for his organisational and timekeeping skills, and everyone else who made the [...]
Dart – a few wildly speculative thoughts
Chris Price, September 13th, 2011
Colin’s post on Dart and the other fallout from Google’s announcement across the web sparked a few thoughts in my mind, so I thought I’d share them. Firstly I think it’s important to point out how much of what is currently being said is speculative. Most people’s opinions on Dart are covered with disclaimers especially [...]
Bezier demo
Chris Price, August 23rd, 2011
I was reading over one of the tutorials over at html5rocks.com (if you haven’t had a look through them before I’d thoroughly recommend it!) and came across an article by Ilmari Heikkinen on creating a “kiosk-mode” for chromeexperiments.com (another thoroughly recommended site!). The article itself was pretty interesting but it was a pretty insignificant part that caught my eye. [...]
Scott Logic Newcastle Grand Prix
Chris Price, August 9th, 2011
Last Thursday night saw a tense battle for the podium at the inaugural Scott Logic Newcastle grand prix. The race was held south of the river at Karting North East in Sunderland, but most people didn’t let that, or the afternoon of torrential rain put them off! The race started with a 15 minute practise [...]
A Webapp By Another Name II – The many pitfalls of using the application cache on mobile platforms
Chris Price, June 10th, 2011
In part one I discussed my objective to create a “web-less webapp” which could masquerade as a native application on all modern mobile platforms. I covered the gotchas of developing with the cache, but stopped short of discussing the problems that come about when you wrap it up for each platform. In this post I’ll [...]
A Webapp By Another Name – The many pitfalls of using the application cache on mobile platforms
Chris Price, June 3rd, 2011
In this first installment, I’ll introduce the appcache, talk about some gotchas of using the appcache and hopefully give some helpful hints for debugging it based on my experience. Introduction The appcache is a new DOM feature added in the unholy bundle we call HTML5. It aims to allow your webapp to be loaded even [...]
HTML5 Charts vs Flex Charts vs Silverlight Charts – a Test of Performance
Chris Price, November 29th, 2010
This post follows on from the comparisons by Colin, of two Silverlight chart libraries, and Graham, of Flex and Silverlight chart libraries. In this post I add an HTML5 chart library into the mix. The results show that the HTML5 Charts perform easily as well as the others in HTML5 browsers (Chrome, FireFox, Safari, Opera, IE9*).
What is this?!
Chris Price, May 5th, 2010
This post discusses the this keyword, what it represents, how it can catch you out and how to avoid those problems. It also introduces the functions call and apply from the Function prototype. Let’s start with a definition – The value of this is determined at the point at which the function is invoked, and [...]