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Ringmark
TweetGood to see Facebook putting pressure on the mobile manufacturers to standardise their HTML5 implementations Try it here http://rng.it Facebook today addressed three challenge areas that make it hard for developers to build apps on the mobile web: app discovery, browser fragmentation, and payments. As part of the second one, Facebook released Ringmark, a new ...
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Apple’s web-app directory has gone very quiet
TweetOriginal post from April 18, updated for the 1 year anniversary of apple web-apps going dark! Being a developer of several web-apps for both pc and mobile phones, I read with interest way back in March the brouhaha regarding whether Apple had intentionally hamstrung web-apps performance on the iPhone by preventing their use of its ...
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Why buzzwords like HTML5 are useful
But I think there’s actually a very good reason why we should, in fact, embrace the term “HTML5” as an overarching buzzword for this latest round of web standards and specifications. Our industry has proven on several occasions that we don’t get excited about new, interesting, and useful technologies and concepts until such a buzzword is in place.
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Using Closures in Javascript to pass parameters to setTimeout()
TweetFor the home page of my site I wanted to cause certain divs to fadeIn using jQuery after varying amounts of time. In javascript we can use setTimeout() to schedule an arbitrary function call for some point in future. However the function works differently between Firefox and Internet Explorer (MSIE). In FireFox, you would do ...