Establishing communication for applications can be done a number of ways. Historically, it is done via sessions and cookies. While this is adequate for most of todays needs, there is…
Responsive iFrames
IFrames are commonly used to allow embedding of third-party content. Many popular services, such as YouTube and Facebook, make extensive use of IFrames in their embeddable widgets. On a responsive…
AJAX, IE8 & XMLHttp Requests
Cross Origin Resource Support or CORS for short, or HTTP Access Control, available in recent browsers, allows you to make cross-domain HTTP requests; the only requirement being that you must…
Placeholders in forms for IE9
Took about 3 min to get this in place. IE9 doesnt support placeholders. This adds that functionality with NO changes to existing code. https://github.com/mathiasbynens/jquery-placeholder
Create an HTML5 base template, quickly.
Using initializr.js, you can create an HTML5 template based on a few criteria. You can create responsive templates or a basic HTML5 boilerplate template to start your project from. Its…
Don’t Overlook Semantic HTML
Semantic HTML is something that is consistently overlooked by developers. If you are building websites for marketing purposes, the single greatest mistake you can make with SEO (Search Engine Optimization)…
Accessing device orientation in HTML5
An extremely good resource for being able to interface with device hardware. So many applications for this. Using a device orientation can help in developing games or utilities. Applications that…
Interesting things about HTML5
If you are one of the countless developers that are now publishing applications using HTML5 or XHTML5 then you have to know about a few new syntax options. Some of…
HTML5 Tag Reference
If you need a quick cheat sheet for HTML5 elements, use this table. It contains all the standard HTML5 elements you would use to build out a page. These items…
Developing HTML5 apps and Publishing to the Apple App Store
If you are not a native developer but have good JavaScript and HTML5 skills, then AppMobi is a great alternative for publishing apps to the app store and other mobile…