When developing Mobile Web Applications, even the seemingly marginal micro-optimizations can result in a noticeable performance improvement over time and, therefore should be implemented where possible. One could also argue (and rightly so) that this same principle applies when developing Web Applications on the Desktop; however, in the context of Mobile Web Experiences, such optimizations are essential, perhaps even obligatory… Continue Reading
AT&T Best Practices Guide for App Development
Sunday, January 15th, 2012When considering the various best practices surrounding the design of Mobile Web Experiences and Architectures, such works as the W3C’s Mobile Web Application Best Practices guide, or the excellent Mobile Web Best Practices site, and of course, the seminal text, Mobile First, are likely to come to mind. The concepts and strategies presented in these works are a staple in… Continue Reading
Configuring iOS HTTP Monitoring
Friday, December 16th, 2011When developing Web Applications for the Mobile Web Experience it is often useful to have a clear view into all HTTP requests and responses sent between the client and server. This is quite simple to accomplish when developing Web Applications for the Desktop as, the browser is running locally so any standard HTTP Monitor will suffice. And, while it is… Continue Reading
External Templates in jQote2
Monday, December 12th, 2011The jQote2 API Reference provides plenty of useful examples which are sure to help users get up and running quickly. I found it a bit unclear, though, as to how templates could be loaded externally as, in the reference examples, templates are defined within the containing page. For the sake of simplicity this approach certainly makes sense in the context… Continue Reading
DHTMLX Touch 1.0 Released
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011Last week, shortly after I blogged about the release of jQuery Mobile 1.0, I received an email informing me of the release of another Mobile Web Framework: DHTMLX Touch 1.0. Being that I was unfamiliar with DHTMLX Touch (as I have been using jQuery Mobile almost exclusively), I was quite interested to learn more; and, having tried the Examples and… Continue Reading
Function Overwriting in JavaScript
Saturday, November 19th, 2011Whether intentional, or simply a by-product of it’s design, Javascript, being a dynamic language, allows for a level of expressiveness which most any seasoned programmer would come to appreciate. Javascript naturally provides the ability to implement some rather intriguing and quite unique patterns; one of which is the ability to overwrite a function at runtime. Function Overwriting Function Overwriting (also… Continue Reading