Professional ASP.NET - Chris Love's Official Blog

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 new HTML5 modern web application library, toolbarjs. Toolbarjs is a JavaScript library to add ...

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 sold me on the idea of jQuery even if I did not actually understand how jQuery worked at the ...

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 make sure the data entered is at least valid if not absolutely correct. Ever since Google ...

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 horizontal text the text is vertical. I have posted the sample code on jsFiddle for you to try ...

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 going 100% native at this point in my career. The thing that keeps me using jQuery is its rich ...

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 than HTML5. To be specific Facebook further articulated the problems they experienced as poor ...

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 District of Columbia with 7 planned dates at this point. DXetreme Development Tour I am very ...

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 example I am using a DIV with an image inside, followed by a figcaption. You could use two DIV ...

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 for any web developer to own. Performance optimization should be a requirement before any ...

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 and extensibility. Because a single page applications require all the views or pages of an ...