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Mobile Web applications & HTML 5

Prashant Jadhav — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 21:03:40 +0000

Mobile Web applications are crucial part of Mobile Internet as the number of mobile internet users are increasing. With frequent updates like iPhone 4, Android based mobile and tablets, mobile Internet usages will be growing in n x speed. I am using n x as can’t even imaging its value at this moment.

This is the hardware part…. With new buzz like HTML 5, even the software part is also having tremendous growth. During my regular GOOGLING, I cam across a nice series of articles about creating mobile web applications with HTML 5.

Note

Don’t just go through the article or even the easy way out, download the “Article source code” available at the end of each article.

Instead go through each and every word of not only just article but also comments (wherever posted). As well as “Resources” mentioned at the end of the article.

Web Developer Resources

Prashant Jadhav — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:56:46 +0000

Being a web developer, I mostly prefer online resources as quick reference. I am sure most of us do the same.
For easy availability of any online resource, there are many options available, right from browser bookmarks to social bookmarks.

Following site is another addition in collabarating such online resources and storing them at one page itself. One can set this page as home page of their browser or instead of N number of browser bookmarks, just one bookmarks with all resources in it.

Check it out at devlisting.com

Firebug support for Non-firefox browsers

Prashant Jadhav — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:08:27 +0000

Firebug is an extension for Firefox, but what happens when you need to test your pages in Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari?

The solution is Firebug Lite, a JavaScript file you can insert into your pages to simulate some Firebug features in browsers that are not named “Firefox”.

Firebug Lite creates the variable “firebug” and doesn’t affect or interfere with HTML elements that aren’t created by itself.

Installing Firebug Lite 1.2

Insert this line of code into any page that you want to contain Firebug lite:

Firebug Lite can be used as bookmarklet too. For detailed information regarding bookmarklet and other customisable features of it, kindly visit http://getfirebug.com/lite.html

IETester & DebugBar

Prashant Jadhav — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:26:40 +0000

Recently I came across a very interesting application called IETester. It s a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP. Though it sounds similar to the popular Multiple IEs, it has few things which make IETester very different from Multiple IEs.

The main difference are

View source code option which doesn’t work in Multiple IEs properly.
Support for DebugBar which is free for personal use. DebugBar is similar to FireBug addon available for Firefox. It provides
- DOM Inspector: View DOM Tree and modify tags attributes and css attributes on the fly to test your page
- HTTP Inspector: View HTTP/S request to check cookies, GET and POST parameters, view server info
- Javascript Inspector and Javascript Console: View javascript functions for easier debugging, see Javascript and AJAX code
- HTML Validator: Validate HTML code to correct and optimize your code and html size of your page
- And many more features: See page cookies, get pixel color on a page, make a page screenshot, etc…

For more details, click here.

Firefox 3: Text selection and general in-page goodness

Prashant Jadhav — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:03:52 +0000

[] Double click a word to select it; triple click to select a paragraph. If you need to select multiple batches of text, hold down Ctrl and select at will.

[] Changes have also been made to the way the zooming feature works. Hold down Ctrl and move the mousewheel (alternatively, press + or -). Firefox will zoom in or out the entire site; both text and images. Want to switch to the old, text-only way of zooming? Click on View in the menu and choose Zoom, then Zoom text only. Your preference will be remembered on a per-site basis.

[] There’s been a tiny but useful change to the “Find” toolbar; select text inside a web page, then hit Ctrl+F, and the selected text will automatically be entered into the Find field.

Firefox 3: Display Search Results in New Tab

Prashant Jadhav — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:53:27 +0000

Open Firefox 3
In the address bar, type about:config and hit Enter on your keyboard
Scroll down to browser.search.openintab and double-click it to change the value to True
Restart Firefox 3.

Note
[] Make a backup of your prefs.js file before you start editing. Then, if something goes wrong, you can restore it by copying it over the corrupt file.

[] If you can’t restore via a backup prefs.js file, you can exit Firefox and issue the command firefox -safe-mode to bring up the Firefox Safe Mode screen. Then, just select Reset All User Preferences To Firefox Defaults. This will restore all user preferences to their default values.

Firefox 3: Enable Spell Check in Text Boxes (not just textarea fields)

Prashant Jadhav — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:27:26 +0000

Open Firefox 3
In the Location Bar, input about:config
Click to get past the warning message that appears
Locate the Preference Name layout.spellcheckDefault
Double-click it and change the value to 2
Restart Firefox 3.

Note
[] Make a backup of your prefs.js file before you start editing. Then, if something goes wrong, you can restore it by copying it over the corrupt file.

Firefox 3: Allow Windows to Swap Memory When Application is Minimized

Prashant Jadhav — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:29:49 +0000

Open Firefox 3.
In the Location Bar, input about:config.
Click to get past the warning message that appears.
Right-click anywhere on the preference list.
Click New and select Boolean.
When prompted to input a New boolean value, input the following: config.trim_on_minimize
Select true for the value.
Click OK.
Restart Firefox 3.

Note
[] Make a backup of your prefs.js file before you start editing. Then, if something goes wrong, you can restore it by copying it over the corrupt file.