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Microsoft to Double Down on HTML5 With Internet Explorer 9? Really?

March 4th, 2010 by Cedric Dugas

I was pretty surprise to read this week an article on Webmonkey that was saying that Microsoft would certainly double down in IE9 on HTML5 and CSS3. I suggest you read it yourself, but basically it was saying that Microsoft would…

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The mobile webkit fixed position problem

February 22nd, 2010 by Cedric Dugas

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…

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Introduction to ConnectedTV, a javascript development framework for TV widget

February 2nd, 2010 by Cedric Dugas

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…

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jQTouch HTML5 database api extension

December 22nd, 2009 by Cedric Dugas

If you want to dive in mobile website and you are a good jQuery developer, you will love jQTouch. It’s one of the best mobile web framework out there.

However, one thing I found it was missing, was some database…

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Demystifying jQuery .live() and why it’s generally faster than .bind()

December 1st, 2009 by Cedric Dugas

Live() is kind of an odd method. Most people use it for binding an event to a selector injected in the DOM in a loaded page. It does its magic but how?

Event delegation and bubbling

The concept behind .live() is pretty…

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9 resources to create better HTML forms

November 18th, 2009 by Cedric Dugas

Forms are a pretty boring piece of the Internet, it’s not fun to create and it’s not fun to interact with. Yet this is mostly our only way to communicate. We should strive to make better forms and make them…

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The next generation of web developers and designers

November 9th, 2009 by Cedric Dugas

I recently did a round table with other graduates from my college to first years students in the Multimedia Integration program. It was fascinating to see the actual next generation that would work on the web, and what was their…

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Position Absolute goes mobile, and a small introduction to jQtouch

October 26th, 2009 by Cedric Dugas

What a better way of testing the jQtouch beta that by creating a mobile version of Position Absolute. You can test it out with safari at this address, or just tap position-absolute.com in your iPhone.

What can I say, I am stunned…

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CSS abstraction Series: Introduction to xCSS

October 21st, 2009 by Cedric Dugas

I recently did an introduction to Less CSS following my read of why abstraction matters, in this article I was demonstrating how Less could be useful to your front-end development team, but the big disadvantage was that you had to install…

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