Yes it’s true, my love affair with Firefox has fizzled away - we will never have the same hot romance of yesteryear.
Alas, I have had enough of Firefox stealing my memory with wreckless abandon.
The only thing that is keeping me on Firefox is my unabiding love for Firebug. However, for some of my everyday browsing I am making the switch back to IE <sob/>.
I was wondering about some event stuff and here is the general event info:
Gesture
Result
Double tap
Zoom in and center a block of content
Touch and hold
Display an information bubble
Drag
Move the viewport or pan
Flick
Scroll up or down (depending on the direction of the finger movement)
Pinch open
Zoom in
Pinch close
Zoom out
Remember, since there is no mouse, hover events will not work.
You can have the iPhone make calls for you from HTML pages using
tel:
in the URL like this:
<a href="tel:1-408-555-5555">1-408-555-5555</a>
An iPhone specific CSS can be applied using the
media
attribute in the
link
element - which most developers probably ignore.
<link media="only screen and (max-device-width: 480px)"
href="iPhone.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
Also of interest is the viewport meta tag that lets you tell Safari on the iPhone how to scale and zoom your content:
What an odd coincidence. I was going through my RSS feeds today and found that Web Worker Daily posted a link to the messenger bag review page that I was using just recently when looking to purchase a new messenger bag. I personally went for a Chrome bag. Most people seem to like Bailey Works, RELoad and Chrome.
Who wants a job? We have some very exciting Flex and Ajax development opportunities coming up with some high profile companies and we need some kick ass people to help us out.
I have been playing around with the Ruby plugin Hpricot the last few days while I have been creating a news reading tool. It is pretty darn cool and hopefully I will get my project done this weekend.
However, the point of this post is Just a note for others using Firebug to get XPath expressions for use in Hpricot - don’t do it!!! Well ok, you can do it, but make sure you watch out for any
<tbody>
elements that Firebug sneaks in there that don’t exist … I spent _way_ too long figuring that one out.
With the help of a keg of beer last night Jake, Mike, Alexei and I were able to pull everything together at the last moment (of course there are a few small things we are still fixin up) and get it out there. Grid is looking awesome with much improved performance and we have also released Spotlight and Calendar - as I have mentioned previously.
Its up online so check it out and let me know what you think
Time to catch up on my blog reading / writing and have a looooooong sleep.
In between all the other exciting stuff happening here like JaveOne, XTech and RobotReplay, we have also been working on improving the Complete UI suite!
In particular we will have a new Calendar control (which is integrated with Grid of course) and also something we call Spotlight that can be used to build a tour of your web application for help users.
What I have been working on (as anyone who has seen my twitter can attest to) is fixing up our flagship product, Grid. I have mostly been focusing on two aspects of it:
Improving layout and theming. This has been a long time coming and it is much better now but there is still some work to do to get it up to par with all the other components. Layout has been changed a lot and should make it much nicer to work with.
Improving performance. Another thing that has been a long time coming is better general performance. We have slimmed things down a bit in terms of code size and in fixing the layout we have also increased performance significantly.
I should also mention that Mike has been doing a bang-up job lately on getting the Java backend code ship shape as well as improving the docs - which everyone will probably be very happy about!
There has also been a slew of bug fixes going out for several of our customers that will become available to everyone with this release.
We are shooting for June 1 (this coming friday) so stay tuned!
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