Ever wondered how to cancel a fetch request in your web application. There’s good news, we can finally abort HTTP calls made using fetch from our applications. In this article, I will cover how to…
Mobile Web
Share like native mobile apps with Web Share
In this article we will check out how to share like native apps with the Web Share API. Web Share API has been around for some time and can add the great ability to your…
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Using D3 or third party libraries with Polymer – simple example
Off late I have been exploring and working with Polymer a lot. One thing I tried recently was to create a custom element (a custom tag) that has a d3 chart integrated into it. So…
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orientationchange does not work in Mobile Firefox for Androids… WTF !
Yes, orientation change does not work in mobile Firefox. Strange!, but it is. So, when you rotate your mobile device from portrait to landscape mode and back to portrait mode, the orientationchange event is not…
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Authoring “Adobe Edge Inspect Starter”…
My book “Instant Adobe Edge Inspect Starter” on mobile web debugging and testing has been published and it is now available online. For more details and to purchase you can visit here. Mobile web testing…
Adobe Shadow is now Adobe Edge Inspect
In a major move on the 24th of September, Adobe has renamed Shadow to Adobe Edge Inspect and now it has become a part of the Adobe Edge Tools and Services : http://html.adobe.com/edge/ Shadow had been…
WEINRE – Web Inspector Remote Video by Patrick Mueller
Patrick Mueller is the man behind the Weinre tool – remotely inspect and debug mobile web applications. Here is a video of him talking about Weinre at PhoneGap Day US 2012. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nntDvl0wzHo&feature=g-user-u] If you would like…
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Use your own Weinre server with Adobe Shadow – Step by step
Now that Adobe has released version 4 of Shadow they have included a very nice feature of adding or using your own Weinre debug server with Shadow. What it does is that it fastens up…
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Fluidic Sliding Panels – Auto adjust to any device screen without browser refresh
Let’s talk about creating a sliding panel system that adjusts automatically to any screen size or rather any device resolution. The sliding is implemented using CSS3 Transitions and I have targeted only webkit based browsers. So…
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A look at iScroll – native way of scrolling content in mobile webkit
Mobile web kit browsers do not allow you to scroll content inside a fixed size container or a div element. If you are a mobile web developer developing apps for iPhone and Android, you must…
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