WhitherApps is a bandwagon-busting experiment. I believe there are far too many native client apps which could have been far better written as mobile web apps. What we’re going to try and do is take a few examples, apply a little reverse-engineering, and rewrite them, warts and all, with web technologies.
(via Ajaxian)
As popular as iPhone Apps have been, though, iPhone’s Safari browser has also been a great success, showing the practicality of using a Web browser on a small screen.
Excitement has been building for some time for a BlackBerry device with a modern WebKit browser. Michael Mullany puts the brand new BlackBerry Torch through the paces, from the point of view of a web developer, to see what it can handle. The results? Pretty impressive… Check out his article on the Sencha blog. (via Sencha)
I recently came up against an issue in Safari where the background colour of an element seemed to ‘bleed’ through the edge of the corners when applying both borders and a border-radius (see the image above). After seeing David Cole tweet about the same issue I resolved to find a solution,…
Great tip!
“Our interest is in the phone business. No if, and, but about it.”Phil McKinney, HP CTO
Excellent use of standards for some excellent 8-bit effects.
“iOS’s support for mobile web apps — totally open, no gatekeeping — is by design. This isn’t a loophole around the App Store. It’s a fully supported software platform.”John Gruber on OpenAppMkt
2009–2010 David Kaneda
