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Offline Web Apps: To Cache or to Store?

what if tomorrow every site would start using HTML5's application cache? this is an interesting question between there is a quite important difference between caching and storing, and while HTML5 technically treats offline applications as caching rather than storing, it... Read more →

Maps on the iPhone

when the iPhone was released almost three years ago, apple and google had a love affair going on, google optimized their youtube videos for iPhone delivery and allowed google maps to work well with the native maps app. this love... Read more →

Web Apps on the iPhone

in a long forgotten past, the iPhone did not have apps. it had the apps it had (but nobody called those apps back in those days), and developers were supposed to write web apps. which did not work too well,... Read more →

iPhone to Android: Make the Leap?

shamelessly copying the make the leap slogan from SRAM (which faced the prospect of entering a market where shimano seemed to be impossible to attack), this is my brief report of 30 days and 30 nights (another shamelessly copied tagline)... Read more →

Feed Theory and Facebook Reality

my original plan was to write a post about how to circumvent facebook's absurd limitation that users are only allowed to import exactly one feed into their accounts. this limitation is obviously fueled by facebook's desire to pull people into... Read more →

HTML5 File Writer API

file access in the HTML5 world (based on the fuzzy definition of HTML5 as anything that attempts to turn the browser into a richer programming platform) has so far been limited to read access through the File API. today, the... Read more →

HTML5 Capture API

probably the biggest open issue in how much of a mobile device's capabilities a web-based application can use was the lack of access to the camera. initiatives such as BONDI and PhoneGap had long recognized this and provided APIs for... Read more →