Category Archives: discussion
Mozilla, Firefox and the Version Number Chaos
Craig discusses Mozilla’s proposal to remove version numbering from Firefox and the heated debate it caused. Continue reading
Browser Trends September 2011: Can Anyone Stop Chrome?
Craig examines the latest desktop and mobile browser market statistics from StatCounter. Have web developers lost their love for Firefox? Continue reading
Will You Use Google’s New Page Speed Service?
Google has released a Page Speed Service which combines proxy servers, CDNs and web page optimizers to make websites 25-60% faster. Craig discusses the pros and cons. Continue reading
BuildMobile: Mobile Web Apps: Quick Wins
As we move though the book, we’re going to meet some relatively complex code for recreating native effects and behaviors. Thanks to some (fairly) standard hooks and APIs, however, there are a few tricks we can employ to add a bit of pizzazz to our apps without having to do much work at all. 3.1. Nifty Links For security reasons, mobile web applications are sandboxed away from many built-in features of the mobile device; for example, unlike native apps, they’re not able to retrieve a list of a user’s contacts, or take a photo with the device’s camera (yet). Continue reading
Banishing Browser Address Bars — a UI Step Too Far?
Google and Mozilla may remove the address bar from Chrome and Firefox. Craig discusses the reasons for the proposal and the risks it poses. Continue reading
BuildMobile: Mobile Web Apps: Setting Up Shop
This is an excerpt from the upcoming book “Build Mobile Websites and Apps for Smart Devices” by Earle Castledine , Myles Eftos and Max Wheeler . Over the coming weeks BuildMobile will exclusively publish a complete chapter from the book, the chapter on Mobile Web Apps. Enjoy. Continue reading
Sean Parker Says “The Social Network” Is “Fiction”
Napster founder and Facebook founding president Sean Parker lashed out at the movie The Social Network at a conference in Europe today, calling it “a complete work of fiction.” As you can see in the video above (skip to 5:20 for this part), Parker admires the production values of the film, but objects to the […] Continue reading
Microsoft Drop Conditional Comments in IE10
Craig looks at the benefits and bother caused by Conditional Comments and why they’re being dropped in IE10. Continue reading →