George Georgovassilis writes about information technology architecture
Pentagram, source Wikipedia. Towards the end of the year I'll indulge in the dark arts, join the goblins and leave my white architect hat under the Christmas tree where it belongs. I'm helping a friend (a technically minded, non-programmer) write his first mobile app . We wanted to keep everything simple: use technologies which can … Continue reading Book of dark arts: storing data in the view
Task: create HTML elements that contain other elements and adjust their height to surrounding container. No Javascript allowed. That's surprisingly hard; height:100% won't work; elements generally wrap their contents tightly and don't extend to their parents height dimension. Illustrating the problem: three elements inside a surrounding container Css-tricks lists several ways [1] to get this … Continue reading Equal height HTML elements in a container with CSS
(Updated 22 May 2020) This post discusses web security issues that I come across - so far thankfully mostly by reading about them. It is a work in progress which I'll keep updating. The post title includes "advanced" because the topics discussed here involve clever, non-trivial hacks, are novel at the time of their publication … Continue reading Advanced web security topics
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
If you are working on a webapp, it is likely that sooner or later you will find yourself tasked with generating some web UI. While the esteemed colleague from the web design department excels at that (disclosure: I'm not a web designer), when asked for advice on how to get something "simple" done you'll find … Continue reading CSS for frontend engineers
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