In this third part of how to get a native app feeling with HTML, Javascript and CSS we will build a basic but solid navigation system. This is where we start building our application and influence our know-how from part 1 and part 2. While my colleague at Point Software, François Scheurer, is working on his next article […]
In the second part of this blog series I will introduce you to the terrible world of touch event handlers and working around mobile Safari’s behavior issues in JavaScript. Touch events are a very sensitive feature and therefore a good knowledge about the calling stack of the default events is required. I will also refer […]
If you are building a big client-side Javascript application, things like custom events for GUI updates and their listeners can cause big headache. Especially if you are not managing them on a central place. Javascripts only way to simulate custom events is a polling-like setTimeout() or setInterval() mechanism. I will not further explain why it […]
Introduction Many web application developers have tried to develop a high performance web application with real-time behaviors. A common example of such an application could be a communication web platform like a chat application. A message sent by a user should be transmitted in real-time to other users. Years ago I tried to develop a […]
Introduction The world has significantly changed after smartphones has been released, especially after the first iPhone. Therefore mobile applications became popular very quickly. Since I own an iPhone, I was excited how people around the world got fascinated for mobile applications, also known as apps. The more frustrating it is as a web developer, not […]