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Shock is not quite effective in describing my internal reaction when I was told the upcoming release of Internet Explorer Mobile (being released with Mango) will NOT support touch . I mean I am happy it will support most of the HTML5 standards other platforms
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Lately I have been spending a lot of time learning about browser touch support. First I read through the Touch API draft so I would be familiar with the touch events browsers are now supporting. My first instinct was to see if binding touch event handlers
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Earlier this week Mix released the list of over 200 sessions in the Mix Open Call competition. I have three sessions up for vote and I hope you will help me get the nod with a chance to present. Mix is at the Mandalay Bay in Vegas April 12-14 and is my
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I am very excited about the next couple of weeks because I will have a great opportunity to meet some folks and talk about some things I really love. Starting tomorrow night I will be speaking at the Deerfield Beach FL (my operating base for the past
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Last week I used a TreeView to demonstrate the new jQuery Templating plugin. The code technique to build the TreeView came from O’Reilly’s jQuery Cookbook . I picked this book up back in January and I still find myself referencing it each week. I was
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Last week I created a Tree View using the new jQuery Templating plugin. The example shows how to display a series of expandable tree nodes to see crab pot strings used by a fleet of crab boats. Today I am going to extend this example to show another Template
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Recently I have had a nagging issue I honestly had a hard time recreating, till today that is. The situation occurred when I added and removed DOM elements in reaction to a user checking and unchecking a checkbox. If the user tabs to the next field, they
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Finally!!! I was so excited to finally see the jQuery Team and Microsoft finally release the Templating and Data Linking plugins last week. If you have attended one of my WCF, jQuery sessions this year, or have been following my jQuery posts , you saw
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Users love to copy and paste, well so do developers, but don't tell. The browser actually gives JavaScript access to the clipboard through the clipboardData object and also fires events for cut, copy and paste operations. This opens up opportunities for
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If you have found this Blog entry most likely you are seeing this response in Fiddler . It is accompanied by an HTTP status code of 504. ReadResponse() failed: The server did not return a response for this request is not very helpful and in fact fairly
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This afternoon @DamienGuard asked how to select labels that are associated with input elements. I think I have an answer for him, or at least something that should be able to get him on the right track. If not, oh well its still pretty neat. One of the
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Software development is a collection of trade offs; performance for speed to market, quick & dirty vs. maintainable, on and on. Most tend to sacrifice user experience at some level for time to market, other do not consider maintainability, reliability.
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I know, I know use FireBug and FireFox . I hear it all the time. I say meh, everyone does that. As I wrote last year, in IE 8 press F12 and Bazinga !!! You get the IE Developer tools. Read more about using the IE developer tools in my old post. But I
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Over the past 18 months or so I have become a heavy jQuery programmer. You can say a lot about using jQuery, one thing I thought I would never say is I love working with JavaScript, er I mean ECMAScript. As you start working with jQuery and JavaScript
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This is so long overdue, but I told Dave Ward last Summer I would post this Blog and well I have not been so good on that commitment. If you want to validate a form that is organized using the jQuery UI Tabs widget you probably need to perform validation
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