I recently ran into an issue on app-UI where child views were having their touch/mouse event listeners removed once another view was pushed onto the stack in the ViewNavigator component. If you haven’t seen it yet, app-UI is a collection of reusable “application container” components for building native-like mobile experiences for apps built with web technologies. It is still in […]
Category Archives: JavaScript
Transcript from Open Session on PhoneGap
Yesterday Raymond Camden and I hosted an open session on PhoneGap. It was an opportunity for the community (you) to ask us questions. There was a great turnout, and we’ll likely be hosting another one of these sessions in the near future. Thanks to everyone who attended! Check these links to see the full Q&A […]
A Response to “Shell Apps and Silver Bullets”
There is an article floating around the web today, warning against “Shell Apps” and tools like PhoneGap. The logic in this article has a few arguments that are misleading, and I’d like to introduce some counter arguments as they relate to PhoneGap and HTML experiences for comparison. The “Silver Bullet” First, the “Silver Bullet” argument… I have […]
Debugging App-UI with Adobe Shadow
Adobe Shadow has been out for over a month now, and I’ve finally had a chance to start integrating it into my development workflow. Shadow is a new tool that provides you with a synchronized desktop & mobile browsing experience, and it even lets you inspect & modify the HTML DOM on the remote devices. […]
Rapid Prototyping With PhoneGap
Last week I gave a presentation to a local DC Meetup group on “Rapid Prototyping with PhoneGap“. The main takeaways are: PhoneGap is great for rapid prototyping. Don’t limit yourself to a prototype! PhoneGap is awesome for building real-world production applications targeting multiple platforms! You can check out my presentation here: Rapid Prototyping with PhoneGap.pdf […]
Data Visualization with Web Standards
I recently spoke at the 360|Flex conference in Devner, CO on “Data Visualization with Web Standards”. This presentation was focused upon techniques for presenting data in an easily-consumable visual manner using only HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Below you can view my presentation slides and a brief summary. Web-Standards-Data-Viz.pdf Basically, there are 5 general ways to visualize […]
Multi-Device Best Practices
I recently spoke at the 360|Flex conference in Devner, CO on “Multi-Device Best Practices”. This presentation was focused upon multi-device & multi-platform development strategies for both PhoneGap and Flex/AIR applications. Below you can view my presentation slides and source code, and a brief summary. Multi-Device-Best-Practices.pdf First, I gave an overview of mobile & multi-platform with AIR […]
Odd WebKit Bug with Elements
I stumbled upon a really odd bug in my current project, which I can only attribute to the WebKit browser engine, since I was able to recreate this in a UIWebView on iOS (in PhoneGap) and in Chrome on OS X – WebKit is the common engine in both. It’s a bizarre issue that is […]
US Census Browser v2.0
I am happy to announce the US Census Browser version 2.0! Back in December of 2011, I released the US Census Browser as an open source application intended to demonstrate principles for enterprise-class data visualization and applications developed with web standards. This version has some fairly substantial changes – See the video below to check out features […]
Introducing app-UI
I’d like to take a moment and introduce app-UI, a new open source application framework that I’ve been working on. app-UI is a collection of reusable “application container” user interface components that may be helpful to web and mobile developers for creating interactive applications using HTML and JavaScript, especially those targeting mobile devices. app-UI is […]