Illusions in CSS
Graham Odds, March 7th, 2013
Tweet The many new CSS features introduced in the CSS3 spec that are increasingly supported by all the modern browsers have interested me for quite a while. In an attempt to put see how powerful CSS without any JavaScript can be these days I decided to try implementing some of my favourite visual illusions in [...]
Improving Raphael performance on iOS with CSS transitions
Mark Rhodes, February 11th, 2013
In this post I’ll run through the development of DOM-Raphael, a basic CSS3 based JavaScript library which acts as a replacement for Raphael and can be used to improve performance when running on iOS. The source code for the JavaScript for this post is available on GitHub. The driver behind the creation of this library [...]
Toob – London Underground travel app
Graham Odds, October 4th, 2012
Tweet I have recently been working on an application called Toob as an entry for CodeProject’s App Innovation Contest. It is a London Underground travel app for Windows 8 that will be released to the Windows Store in due course. It is currently a work in progress but I have written an article introducing the [...]
Converting an HTML5 App to a Native App with Titanium
Chris Price, October 1st, 2012
In this post Colin Eberhardt’s Property Finder app gets another outing, but this time with a native twist. Titanium is a popular open-source framework for building multi-platform native apps in JavaScript. Here I’ve used it to port the existing MVVM application to iOS and Android whilst trying to maintain as much code reuse as possible. [...]
Suppressing Zoom and Scroll interactions in the Windows Phone 7 WebBrowser Control
Colin Eberhardt, November 17th, 2011
This blog post describes a simple helper class that can be used to supress scrolling and pinch zoom of the Windows Phone 7 WebBrowser control. Developers of Windows Phone 7 application have the full power of IE9 at their disposal in the shape of the WebBrowser control. This control allows you to render both local [...]
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 [...]
Property Finder – the first HTML5-based Windows Phone 7 Application
Colin Eberhardt, November 7th, 2011
Last week I submitted Property Finder, a simple application that searches for properties based in the UK, to the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. I was happy to receive confirmation that this application had been certified and published just two days later. You can download the application from the marketplace now. You can also watch a [...]
Developing Windows Phone 7 HTML5 apps with PhoneGap
Colin Eberhardt, September 29th, 2011
This article show the step-by-step development of a Windows Phone 7 HTML5 application using PhoneGap. It also looks at how viable this approach is for cross-platform mobile development. Introduction … and Why HTML5? Windows Phone 7 allows native application development in both Silverlight and XNA, both of which are mature framework with excellent tool support. [...]
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. [...]
Can Microsoft ‘fix’ JavaScript and make HTML5 applications viable?
Colin Eberhardt, August 16th, 2011
Microsoft’s recent change in stance over Silverlight, promoting HTML5 as “the only true cross-platform solution for everything”, seems to have sidelined Silverlight as a niche framework. This has understandably caused a great deal of upset and confusion in the .NET development community. Despite this, Microsoft are remaining steadfast and tight-lipped about their vision for tighter [...]