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 [...]
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 }
I’m going to write some premise-posts to my recent experience with a native app for iPhone wrapped with PhoneGap. Before to reach that point, I would like to focus on how, in certain circumstances (E.g., mobile development), there is no need to include heavy libraries like jQuery, causing often poor performance especially on less recent [...]