Making the most out of JavaScript Intellisense in VS2012
Chris Price, September 18th, 2012
Intellisense for JavaScript has always felt to me like an unfinished addition to Visual Studio, something that promises so much but doesn’t deliver for larger projects. Manually adding and then maintaining another set of dependency references just for Intellisense has just never seemed worth it. However, with the launch of Visual Studio 2012 Intellisense has [...]
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 [...]