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Back in February I released deeptissuejs , a HTML5, JavaScript touch gesture library. In January I release panoramajs a HTML5, JavaScript library to implement the basic Windows Phone panorama control experience. This month I am excited to release another
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It was 5 maybe 6 years ago when I first started learning jQuery. One of the first things I did was order the jQuery In Action book . If you have read that book you should remember one of the first examples given, zebra striping a table. To me this example
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Guided user input is almost always a good idea when architecting a data entry experience. You want to help the user avoid potential mistakes. With on screen, mobile keyboards you want to reduce the keystrokes required to enter data and at the same time
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There is so much we can do with web pages that were overly complicated just a few years ago. Thanks for CSS3 Transforms we can do some really cool effects. Today I want to show how to create a vertical menu, or a menu rotated -90 degrees so instead of
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I love jQuery and like most modern web developers it was the gateway that got me into heavy AJAX development. But like all things that make life easy it comes with a cost and that cost is performance. I find myself caught between using jQuery and just
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It must have been my maturity that kept me from responding immediately to the headlines spawned by the Zuckerbuerg HTML5 comments . I am glad I waited and did some further research because I think the comments were aimed more at Apple, Google and Microsoft
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It's hard to believe we are entering the last quarter of 2012 already and I have had a very busy year. I have been able to present in at least 7 states and a few online presentations. To finish the year I will visit at least 2 more states and the
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I find myself needing to overlay HTML elements off and on such as a photo caption on top of a photo. The technique to accomplish is very simple and does not require anything we have not has available for years. First create two markup elements. For my
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If you know me you know I am a fanatic about application performance and that I am a big fan of Steve Souders and the practice of web performance optimization (WPO). In the past I have recommended both High Performance Web Sites and Even Faster Web Sites
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As web development and architecture matures so does the way we need to structure our projects. For me that means single page applications. And while I have not had time to write on the topic yet I have been developing my approach to focus on performance
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Yesterday I talked about how creating traditional <A> driven navigation can be problematic in today’s touch first world . In yesterday’s demonstration I pointed out how using hyperlinks and a traditional menued navigation scheme can
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The other day I gave an intro to JQuery Lunch and Learn to my client’s development team. I walked them through creating a simple JQuery Plugin to create a character remaining feature like Twitter has on its web site. The ingredients for this plugin involved
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Over the last year I have been spending a lot of time re-learning how to use CSS. Since ASP.NET was released the use of Web Controls had made me CSS and HTML ignorant. With the advent of ASP.NET MVC and JQuery combined with the increasing demand for richer
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Making any application as user friendly as possible is the primary goal of any User Experience Engineer, that is the person who is responsible for creating the applications actual UI layer. Back in the time of long, long ago I learned that users like
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The phrase “teaching an old dog new tricks” comes to mind as I start this entry. Nearly two years ago I wrote about how to hide a DropDownList box behind another layer . The reason why this is important is a DropDownList is rendered as a system control
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