When presented with this problem, my first instinct was to look through the PhoneGap API documentation to see if I could find a way to interact with the internal phone system. After reviewing the documentation, I wasn’t able to find the desired solution, so, I started thinking of other ways to solve this problem. After [...]
Category: Browsers
At Zipline Interactive, we have been doing mobile websites for a number of years. When we originally started building them, most customers were satisfied with a very simple website but as the mobile market has grown and more and more users have smartphones, many customers expect their mobile website to function much like a mobile [...]
Many of you may have noticed that Firefox adds a 1px dotted border around some active elements. From what I understand, this border is intended to indicate where the user’s focus is on the page. The unfortunate reality is, these borders are often unsightly for standard users. Many times, developers need to remove them from [...]
This post is short but sweet. I discovered today an iPhone emulator developed by a guy named Shaun Sullivan. Unfortunately, there is no way to totally emulate the iPhone on Windows but what Shawn has done is made an executable that runs a Windows build of WebKit and embeds it inside an iPhone-like shape. I [...]
Flash is a fantastic tool. We use it frequently as an ELEMENT in the websites we develop. Flash is the best way to show online video and it is a great presentation tool for telling the story about your client through a short animation or some sort of interactive tool. It is not something that [...]
Yesterday, one of our customers called us with a very unusual issue. He claimed that on his machine in Internet Explorer 7, when he attempted to print a page from his website, the print preview function on his machine would continue to count endlessly as if it was stuck in a loop. His website has [...]
Many of you probably subscribe to the blog of Matt Cutts. If you don’t you probably should. He is a Webspam Engineer at Google and he also serves as a spokesman for Google. On his blog he offers helpful information, explains google policies, and also spends a great deal of time explaining or dispelling rumors [...]
Everyday there is another announcement of software going to a SaaS model. Cloud computing is really the rage right now. That is good news for people like us who have a web background. It is not so good for traditional application programmers that have limited JavaScript experience. At any rate, Mozilla has released a cool [...]
Some of you probably don’t care, a lot of you probably already have real iPhones but for cheapskates like Kate Yates, Apple may be creating the perfect option. It is expected Apple will start selling a watered down version of the iPhone sometime this summer. If you already bought yours don’t worry. According to RBC [...]
