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 moreToday Apple introduced a new version of their iBooks iOS application alongside a new content creation tool, iBooks Author. This move was focused entirely on bringing textbooks to the iPad. After analyzing both Apple's announcement and the two newly released pieces of software, I have some interesting observations.
Why the iPad?
I think it is...
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...
Read moreTechnology in 2011 is all about "me"—UX Predictions for the Coming Year
The word technology, by definition, has a very sterile, metallic, and hands-off connotation. But this is changing. Technology is becoming increasingly intimate, customizable and personal.
People now access the same sites and services using different applications that suit...
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