Sencha has recently begun targeting the Adobe Flex community, promoting their products as the panacea for development in the HTML5 arena. That message is not far from the truth. While these frameworks don't address common frustrations with JavaScript, such as its lack of compile-time checking, error-prone scoping and other language specific...
Read moreAnd the winner is: PhoneGap! The reasons why are actually simple.
PhoneGap and Appcelerator Titanium are both very popular open-source JavaScript frameworks for packaging and deploying mobile applications. At Universal Mind, we have clients that leverage both and clearly both frameworks have countless successful implementations on numerous...
Read moreChoosing the right HTML5 framework can be a daunting task. Mobile compatibility, scalability, TV, embedded devices, browser, and extensibility are just a few things to consider. Start with jQuery and do your research. You CAN go wrong, so choose carefully. Let’s examine some of the choices.
jQuery — Possibly the most popular JavaScript library in...
Read moreOne of the major challenges with HTML and JavaScript in the past has been debugging. Simply put, it didn’t exist. Along with the lack of compile-time type checking, debugging has been one of the biggest challenges with developing HTML5/JavaScript applications. Enter the WebKit Web Inspector.
WebKit is the open-source layout engine that powers...
Read moreHTML5, the final frontier. This article describes the challenges and benefits of HTML5 across the enterprise. HTML5’s five-year year mission: to explore strange new devices, to seek out ubiquity across all platforms, and to boldly go where no other technology has gone before.
HTML5 is not just a standard, it is a revolution. More popular than the...
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If Adobe’s recent Flash Mobile and Flex announcements didn’t make it official, it’s the closest thing to it. The plug-in model is over. Creators of the two main viable products Adobe (Flash) and Microsoft (Silverlight) have both publicly stated that they view HTML5 as the future. While each continue to pay lip service to their respective...
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"How should I deploy my site or application to mobile?" This is a common question we hear from our clients these days. Unfortunately, the answer is not as straightforward as you might think. One key fact overrides almost every conversation in this space: Just because it's smaller, doesn't mean it's easier to produce. In fact, in many cases,...
Read moreIf you have ever been in the world of web development, chances are that you have heard of CSS, or more formally, cascading style sheets. If you aren't familiar with CSS, it is a language that is used to define how HTML-based content is displayed on the web. CSS can be used to control layout, spacing, colors, fonts, and much more, and has been an...
Read moreAlthough the HTML 5.0 draft specification is not scheduled to become a standard until 2014, it is already a technology that is seeing wide adoption and creative use across the Internet. New ways to visualize, consume, and engage with information and media are made possible with this natural evolution of the HTML language. HTML5 is a versatile tool...
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In this session, I review how to strategically deploy applications across the Desktop, Browser, iPad, iPhone & Android. This session gives designers and developers the power to make educated decisions regarding multiple device strategies in...
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