The mobile webkit fixed position problem

If there is one thing you will be missing while developing your mobile web application for Webkit, it is the CSS fixed position. You cannot effectively fix an element on the iPhone, and mobile device are no powerhouse to emulate it with javascript. The problem is simple, yet there is no perfect solution to it.

On a mobile device you scroll a window, not the site

When you scroll on a mobile device, you are not really scrolling the site, in fact if you zoom out completely you will see the entire page, you are only scrolling your “window” around the site. When you understand this, your fixed footer dream really shatter, unless you are willing to use complex methods..

iScroll

And there start your quest, on your…

In video: Mozilla show the future of web file uploading

“Many web applications use image uploaders: image hosting websites, blog publishing applications, social networks, among many others. Such uploaders have limitations: you can’t upload more than one file at a time and you can’t edit the image before sending it. A plugin is the usual workaround for uploading more than one image, and image modifications are usually done on the server side, which can make the editing process more cumbersome.

Firefox 3.6 allows millions of people to take advantage of modern standards, including HTML5.
The image uploader described here shows how a web page should really be considered as an application since it interacts with your Desktop and works offline.”

All the information here.

Plupload, upload files using HTML5 with fallback for older browsers

Looking for a file upload script lately?

You can use it to upload files with HTML5 now, you can even drag and drop from your desktop, and just update it later to get all the browsers to get along when it will be supported.

It looks nice and it works!

Can you tell this video player is not in flash?

A nice HTML5 video player has popped up recently. The Sublime video player is an experimentation from Jillion and what can I say, I tried it on Chrome and it look pretty slick and powerful. It currently support the latest version of Firefox, Safari and chrome.

Now if browser vendors could get along on video format, our only problem would be Microsoft. I mean, common Apple, you could support h264 and OGG..

Introduction to ConnectedTV, a javascript development framework for TV widget

It is a good time to be a front-end developer and explore alternative technologies linked to the web. I already did an introduction to the excellent mobile jqtouch framework. This framework alleviates the work to create nice mobile websites and applications with front-end technologies. This time I wanted to do a small introduction to ConnectedTV from Yahoo.

A javascript framework for TV?

It is strange to think that a web technology powers widget for tv. In fact this is a little bit more complicated than that. The ConnectedTV framework is a kind of MVC javascript framework. Basically you have an init file where you define every routes and javascripts files. A “page” or “view” in the widget is a js file where you have basic functions that are…