Some month ago I posted an article named Into PhoneGap: an example of API-aware native iPhone app with HTML5 and SQL local database and several readers asked me for the full source code of the example app. In this post I would like to do more. In recent times I had to chance to work a lot [...]
Mobile web application libraries are dividing in two main groups: lightweight libraries and complex and (often heavy) application framework with extended UI support. Introduction A good point of balance is iUI – a web UI framework for mobile devices. It offers a really basic, but very functional, navigation system between pages (the classic left-to-right and [...]
GeoSuggester let you obtain full geographic data from a single input string provided by user, thanks to geocoding functionalities offered by Google Maps API services.
These days I had the opportunity to test PhoneGap, an open source framework for creating native mobile apps with web standards. So, first things came to mind when you think about HTML5, is that even if mobile browsers are very fast to implement new features, you cannot truly count on “standards” but on “drafts”. The [...]
A very important topic in web development it’s about Events. jQuery offers a nice syntax with functions like element.click(), MooTools -instead- tries to remain closer to natural JavaScript implementation with element.addEvent(‘onclick’, fn). Modern browsers have really no problem with this, the syntax is simple: el.addEventListener(“click”, eventTriggered, false); function eventTriggered() { //do your stuff }