The port of Super Star Trek [1] to an HTML 5 mobile app involves some times dealing with the fact that the app does not have full control over the device but runs inside a browser. One of the restrictions thus applied is the omnipresent address bar in the browser. For many applications that is … Continue reading Hiding the address bar in mobile browsers
Category: javascript
Speeding up initial page view of Ajax applications with static HTML
Many Ajax applications build the UI programmatically, i.e. think of GWT's UI builder or one of the many convenient jquery widgets which incurs a visible delay between the time of the initial page load and the time the page has finished rendering. The delay can be mitigated by a static "please wait while loading" message … Continue reading Speeding up initial page view of Ajax applications with static HTML
On translating Tweets
I've been following the indonesian startup community for a while, but unfortunately my bahasa is not quite at the level that allows me to casually drop a glance at twitter and go on with my work. While looking for a solution to translate tweets into english for firefox, it turns out that there are a … Continue reading On translating Tweets
When IE does not load images
Recently the need for a custom photo gallery surfaced in one of my GWT pet projects. While such an endeavour seems endless from an artistic point of view, the mechanics behind it - at least for my humble needs - were rather simple: the gallery widget will be given a list of image IDs for … Continue reading When IE does not load images
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