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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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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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By now you should know that I am constantly on the lookout for cool and bad features implemented by web sites all the time. Last week I was reading some posts on Christian Hielman's blog . As I passed my mouse over the navigation on the right I noticed
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I love a good cheeseburger, always have. My all time favorite was a local grease pit in my hometown of Cleburne Texas that sadly is no more. Nonetheless I have many other options, especially when I go home to Texas, like this weekend! Today I came across
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Over the past few months I started playing Halo 4 thanks to my step son. If you have played Halo or one of the other modern high end game franchises like Call of Duty , Grand Theft Auto , etc you can't help but be a little overwhelmed with the modern
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There are not a lot of books on mobile development I have found to be that helpful so far. Recently I purchased the O'Reilly published Mobile Design Pattern Gallery book and want to recommend it. Its not a book deep in technical details, but rather a
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Lately the interest in cloud storage has captivated me. Google offering G Drive , Microsoft pushing SkyDrive more, DropBox offering more space when you get a friend to sign up ( hurry you can still sign up can get an extra 500MB at DropBox ), etc. Like
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This week we, my Tellago co-workers, had a background discussion about Instagram experiences scaling to 35 million users . Jesus sent around a PDF from a presentation Mike Krieger, one of the Instagram founders, gave recently. The 'first culprit'
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As browsers adopt more and more HTML5 goodness developers need to be cognoscente of new features to create better and better user experiences. As far back as I can remember the INPUT element has been a workhorse that allows the web to collect information
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Recently I have been creating single page web applications utilizing URL fragments . Essentially this is a new twist to an old technique that has been around for a very long time. While not used as much these days I remember around a decade ago
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What seems like one of the least known features in the mobile web space is the ability to create a web app on the iPhone and iPad. If you hit the button in mobile Safari you will have several options. One is “Add To Home Screen”. This gives
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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 way we design application clients has radically changed in the past couple of years with the proliferation of SmartPhone and tablets with touch screens. Touch is the newest common user input methodology. Sadly it seems to be broadly ignored by the
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Yesterday Microsoft finally revealed the Windows 8 User Interface . It’s Metro UI based with applications built using Web Technologies, that’s HTML5 & AJAX. Its being met with some criticism and skepticism and then there are folks like me who is personally
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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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