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A call to all web developers, launching a twitter campaign to force webkit to implement a position fixed in mobile webkit
Hey guys,
I need YOU for 2 minutes,
Some of you guys might not know that it is impossible to have a fixed toolbar in mobile webkit, this is because we can’t fix anything to the gridview webkit produce.
This is something we need if one day we really want to be a contender to replace native applications.
If you have 2 minute sign the petition by going to http://www.abettermobileweb.com and click on the big button at the bottom.
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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…
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jQTouch HTML5 database api extension
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 api. In webkit you now have access to one database per website address. Think of it as a better cookie. You could for example easily create a To do list with this feature.
Webkit is touchy about its database
You don’t mess with the webkit database, if you do, there is a good chance it will crash. Building this script, I never saw so much crash in Safari! so be careful using it. This script creates an abstraction of the webkit database api, it will enable you…
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Google invest in mobile advertisement with AdMob
Google recently acquired AdMob, a pioneer company into mobile advertisement. Given the Google position on advertising (leader..) it is not to be surprise they bought a rising star in mobile advertisement. For me, mobile advertisement is really a big hassle. It take so much space of your tiny screen, one of the reason I decided not to put advertisement on Position Absolute mobile website.
You can see the Google announcement here.
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Position Absolute goes mobile, and a small introduction to jQtouch
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 at the work here, jQtouch should really be your framework for creating small mobile websites (assuming you want to support only mobile webkit, so iPhone and Android based phone).
Perfect for list and text pages
It is not surprising that if there is something this framework does well, its animation on the iPhone. Webkit integrated lot’s of animation goodies, and jQtouch make the best out of it. You add a specific class for each type of transition and it will automatically animate the transition between your 2…
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Prettymobile, framework for Iphone friendly website
One of my friend recently launched a really cool framework that makes it easy to create Safari mobile friendly website. Unfortunately it is only compatible with Safari mobile, but this is cool nonetheless.
“prettyMobile is an iPhone/iTouch website development toolkit. It provides you will all the basics you need to make a mobile version of your website. It makes extensive use of CSS transformations making sure the animations will be as smooth as they can be. Plus, it’s only 13kb gzipped and minified.”
You need Safari4 or an Iphone to look at the demo.
The project page.
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IntoMobile interview Opera CEO
Want to hear more about where Opera is heading? Well this video is for you.
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Opera Mobile 9.7 in beta
Before the relatively recent introduction of Safari to mobile, there were only one big giant at mobile web browsing, Opera. They are now launching beta for Opera Mobile 9.7 which comes with new features:
# Opera Turbo: Advanced compression technology to speed up data transfer and to reduce the amount of data that needs to be downloaded.
# Opera Widgets: Small, handy standards-based Web applications that run locally on you phone, giving you one-click access to your favourite web services. (really cool)
# Opera Dragonfly: Open source cross-platform developer tool.
Head here for more information and download.
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State of the Mobile Web Report
The mobile web is quite new, and it is starting to become a great niche. We see more and more smartphones and before 5 years I’m pretty sure most cellphone users will have some data plans with their phones. From the Opera numbers, we can see a big jump in data use from last year. Libya saw usage rise 4,155% since April 2008. Nigeria, which joined the worldwide top 10 countries this month, saw usage grow 2,353% over the past year.
For all the details, head to the Choose Opera blog.
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Some Tweets
- looked at bell and videotron for a tv network solution, full of hidden rules, went with shaw direct @ShawDirect_News , honest service
- interesting post about Cross-domain localStorage http://bit.ly/9dfW8F
- back to work after 2 week of renovation on my house, glad to be back at doing javascript..
- traded my computer for this http://bit.ly/cCKVbr for 2 week, want my computer back..
- kind of old, bit I like it http://www.thereisnopagefold.com/
- I really have a love/hate relationship with the E texteditor, so good but so bad at the same time
