Mark Pilgrim wrote this great online book “Dive into HTML5” that you should check out. It’s being released by O’Reilly as “HTML5: Up and Running“. I’m not sure how different the physical copy will be from the online version, but … Continue reading
Check this article out: iPad HTTP Debugging with Charles This approach is extremely useful and has saved me a lot of time. Also, the same tutorial works for the iPhone too. Once you have Charles set up to work with your … Continue reading
When I animate elements in jQuery I often find myself looking for a little something more than the default “swing” and “linear” values. So to spice things up, I usually download this jQuery easing plugin. Once you include it in … Continue reading
After switching over to a MacBook Pro from a PC, one of the OS quirks that bothered me was the zoom button (+) on every window. My initial inclination was that it would maximize the window, however, instead it behaves … Continue reading
I hit a mobile Safari limitation recently when building an AJAX-y site on the iPad. If you load a ton of images eventually mobile Safari cuts you off and will display a [?] instead of the image. After doing some … Continue reading
Here’s an example of a fractal tree using javascript and the canvas tag. I tossed this together a while back and finally polished it up. It’s based on a tutorial here. If you want to grab the JS and tinker … Continue reading
This post is deprecated since this technique doesn’t work anymore! But here’s a blog post by Matthew Congrove that get’s it working. I tested his technique with iOS4 and it looks good. I previously wrote a post mentioning how you … Continue reading
Typekit now supports SVG fonts. This is good news if you want to use their services for an iPad site (since SVG is the only format mobile Safari supports). They mention there are still some bugs to work out, but … Continue reading
Jason Grigsby posted a cool article about a CSS-only solution to updating styles based on iPad orientation: http://www.cloudfour.com/ipad-orientation-css/ In my project I used JavaScript to detect the “orientationchange” event. Then I test if Math.abs(window.orientation) == 90… then I know you’re in … Continue reading
