Abstraction | Why Stylesheet Abstraction Matters | CSS Abstractions

Abstraction | Why Stylesheet Abstraction Matters | CSS AbstractionsCSS has proven to be an effective way to tell a web browser how to style a web page. But it has failed us as a technology for direct use by professionals who engineer websites. It should now be viewed more as an assembly language that higher-level [...]

Sticky, a simple, key/value pair, browser-storage cache leveraging the latest HTML5 storage API’s

Sticky, a simple, key/value pair, browser-storage cache leveraging the latest HTML5 storage API's Sticky is a simple, key/value pair, browser-storage cache leveraging the latest HTML5 storage API’s (indexedDB, webSQL, and localStorage). Sticky persists to memory, indexedDB, webSQL, localStorage, globalStorage, and cookies. Objects and arrays are stringified before storage and strings longer than 128 characters aren’t [...]

PhoneGap to become an Apache project as Adobe acquires Nitobi

PhoneGap to become an Apache project as Adobe acquires Nitobi Adobe has entered an agreement to acquire Nitobi, the startup behind PhoneGap. Alongside news of the acquisition, Adobe and Nitobi have jointly announced plans to donate the PhoneGap project to the Apache Software Foundation. PhoneGap is an open source mobile development framework for building applications [...]

HTML5 Rocks – HTML5 Techniques for Optimizing Mobile Performance

HTML5 Rocks - HTML5 Techniques for Optimizing Mobile PerformanceSpinning refreshes, choppy page transitions, and periodic delays in tap events are just a few of the headaches in today’s mobile web environments. Developers are trying to get as close to native as they possibly can, but are often derailed by hacks, resets, and rigid frameworks. In [...]

Facebook lanza «Project Spartan», su web app para móviles en HTML5

Facebook lanza "Project Spartan", su web app para móviles en HTML5Luego de varios meses de anuncios y postergaciones, ya está aquí el “Project Spartan” de Facebook, el intento de la red social de Zuckerberg por crear un cliente web que funcione con todos los smartphones (gracias a HTML5). Al parecer han querido lanzarlo en la [...]