Shortchanging Your Business with User-Hostile Platforms
Shortchanging Your Business with User-Hostile Platforms
After yet another Campfire outage this week (albeit a brief one), I went looking for an alternative group chat solution for our distributed team at BankSimple. Griping on Twitter led to a number of suggestions, and we gave the most frequently occurring suggestion a try.
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▮ Android Isn’t About Building a Mobile Platform
Google isn’t a web application company—they’re an advertising company. That’s what they do best, and that’s what drives their company. Of Google’s $23.6 billion of revenue in 2009, all but $760 million of it was derived from advertising, and nearly 70 percent of it was from Google’s own websites.
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Fragmentation
Building web apps is not getting easier. The fragmentation of operating systems and browsers is getting worse, not better.
Here’s a chart of the past thirty days of activity at AVC.com:
Styling Submit Buttons for Mobile Safari
As discussed on the most recent episode of Think Vitamin Radio we have been working hard on the redesign of this site and have been looking at how the site reacts when rendered on the iPhone using media queries (if these are new to you then Brian Suda’s most recent article will get you started).
The jQuery Project is Proud to Announce the jQuery Mobile Project
Mobile web development is an emerging hot topic in the web development community. As such, the jQuery Team has been hard at work on determining the strategy and direction that the jQuery Project will take. Today, we are proud to announce the jQuery Mobile Project. We’ve launched a new site at jquerymobile.com that publicly outlines our strategy, research and UI designs.
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Touch Notation
Within the last twelve to eighteen months, I’ve crossed a threshold whereby the vast majority of my work is now aimed at touch-screen devices. I often have to sketch out feature specs, interaction designs and so forth, and I enjoy working on paper whenever I can. I quickly encountered a problem: touch-screen gestures are difficult to describe concisely. To solve this problem, I created a means of talking about such gestures symbolically; I call it Touch Notation.
Mobile Browser Cache Limits: Android, iOS, and webOS
In early 2008, Wayne Shea and Tenni Theurer wrote a YUI Blog post on iPhone Cacheability in which they shared the results of research into various characteristics and limitations of Mobile Safari’s cache in iPhone OS 1.x. Among other things, they found that individual components larger than 25KB were not cached, and that there was a maximum total cache size of between 475KB and 500KB.
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