http://cubiq.org Web and mobile development Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:33:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://cubiq.org/build-and-publish-an-html5-game-for-ipad-part-3 http://cubiq.org/build-and-publish-an-html5-game-for-ipad-part-3#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:24:46 +0000 Matteo Spinelli http://cubiq.org/?p=180 http://cubiq.org/build-and-publish-an-html5-game-for-ipad-part-3/feed 14 http://cubiq.org/build-and-publish-an-html5-game-for-ipad-part-2 http://cubiq.org/build-and-publish-an-html5-game-for-ipad-part-2#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:12:40 +0000 Matteo Spinelli http://cubiq.org/?p=173 http://cubiq.org/build-and-publish-an-html5-game-for-ipad-part-2/feed 9 http://cubiq.org/build-and-publish-an-html5-game-for-ipad http://cubiq.org/build-and-publish-an-html5-game-for-ipad#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:40:06 +0000 Matteo Spinelli http://cubiq.org/?p=170 http://cubiq.org/build-and-publish-an-html5-game-for-ipad/feed 14 http://cubiq.org/swipeview http://cubiq.org/swipeview#comments Sun, 09 Oct 2011 14:12:52 +0000 Matteo Spinelli http://cubiq.org/?p=164 SwipeView is the super simple solution to endless seamlessly loopable carousels for the mobile browser. It's memory conservative as it uses only three elements at any given time, it's smooth as velvet since it takes advantage of hardware acceleration, it's bandwidth friendly with its 1.5kb minified/gzipped footprint.]]> http://cubiq.org/swipeview/feed 114 http://cubiq.org/iscroll-4 http://cubiq.org/iscroll-4#comments Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:36:58 +0000 Matteo Spinelli http://cubiq.org/?p=124 iScroll finally received a complete rewrite. Now it's smoother than ever and adds some new important features: pinch/zoom, pull down to refresh, snap to elements and more custom events for a higher level of hackability.]]> http://cubiq.org/iscroll-4/feed 573 http://cubiq.org/device-motion-websockets-node-js-tech-demo http://cubiq.org/device-motion-websockets-node-js-tech-demo#comments Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:26:42 +0000 Matteo Spinelli http://cubiq.org/?p=114 iOS 4.2 is finally out and it adds a couple of new important tools to the web developer's arsenal: websockets and devicemotion. The former makes client/server communication a snap, the latter brings accelerometer support to the browser. I wanted to test both technologies and see what problems might arise. It has been a very interesting experience, here're my impressions.]]> http://cubiq.org/device-motion-websockets-node-js-tech-demo/feed 14 http://cubiq.org/testing-memory-usage-on-mobile-safari http://cubiq.org/testing-memory-usage-on-mobile-safari#comments Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:30:05 +0000 Matteo Spinelli http://cubiq.org/?p=112 How many elements can I load into the iPhone browser before it crashes? I've been asked this question many times. We don't have memory management on Safari mobile browser, and we don't know when it is going to crash. This level of uncertainty bothered me enough that I decided to do some (admittedly empiric) tests.]]> http://cubiq.org/testing-memory-usage-on-mobile-safari/feed 21 http://cubiq.org/follow-along-floating-layer http://cubiq.org/follow-along-floating-layer#comments Sun, 12 Sep 2010 16:41:34 +0000 Matteo Spinelli http://cubiq.org/?p=108 We have to find smart alternatives to meet the lack of position:fixed on iPhone. If you don't need the complexity of iScroll you may find this script useful. All it does is to move a layer together with the page scroll position. If you are familiar with the mobile Gmail web app you should know what I'm talking about.]]> http://cubiq.org/follow-along-floating-layer/feed 35 http://cubiq.org/you-shall-not-flicker http://cubiq.org/you-shall-not-flicker#comments Sat, 04 Sep 2010 16:09:43 +0000 Matteo Spinelli http://cubiq.org/?p=106 Off screen items on iScroll are not cached by the mobile browser, when it comes their turn to appear on screen they need a few moments before being accessible, creating a nasty flickering. Well, there's an easy trick to force the browser to cache all elements and it's so simple I regret not having tried it before.]]> http://cubiq.org/you-shall-not-flicker/feed 21 http://cubiq.org/do-you-really-need-jquery-for-mobile-dev http://cubiq.org/do-you-really-need-jquery-for-mobile-dev#comments Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:12:14 +0000 Matteo Spinelli http://cubiq.org/?p=103 I love jQuery, I use it everyday, you can spot it even on this blog. It's a life saver in the times of desktop browser discrepancies (yes, I'm talking to you IE), but modern browsers and specifically mobile browsers are good enough not to need any bloated framework on their shoulders. In this post I'm showing you that 90% of the times you are using a framework for nothing.]]> http://cubiq.org/do-you-really-need-jquery-for-mobile-dev/feed 39