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Accessing the GPS in iPhone Safari

Finally with the release of the 3.0 firmware update to the iPhone we now have access to the GPS coordinates in Safari. Using the W3C Geolocation API we can access the users position much the same way a native app would. The user can either allow or disallow the current websites’ access to your location. Continue reading

Determine iPhone orientation using CSS

With the beta of Firefox 3.5 showcasing 35 new features over 35 days, the article on CSS3 media queries stuck out, the orientation detection really got my attention and immediately put my thought process to mobile devices, in my case the iPhone. I thought this is great maybe this has been snuck into the iPhone 3.0, unfortunately for us it wasn’t. That didn’t stop me and I got thinking about how it could be done if at all on the iPhone without using JavaScript. Continue reading

Futurebox, lightbox without the JavaScript

I was playing around the other day and had a bright spark. Is it possible to do the “lightbox” effect without JavaScript? The answer is yes! Thanks to the :target pseudo class. Without further ado I introduce Futurebox. Continue reading

How to create offline webapps on the iPhone

Recently Google launched their latest mobile version of Gmail optimised for iPhone and Android based browsers. One of the features that stood out was the offline access thanks to the browsers support of html5 application cache. Continue reading

Top 8 April Fools websites of 2009

Each and every the web produces some of the best April Fools jokes across the globe, some go all out and create fantastic often highly involved and well thought out pranks. Let take a look at the top 8. Continue reading

Advanced hover states using CSS

The hover pseudo-element in CSS can be a powerful tool in a front-end developers arsenal, it’s not only for changing a links colour. In good browsers the hover element can be applied to almost anything but unfortunately ie6 & 7 only support the hover selector on the anchor tag, but of course that isn’t going to stop us accomplishing something cool. I’ll be looking at using the hover pseudo-element to add some clever functionality when a user hovers over an image. Continue reading

Chroming: How google is changing the browser

The browser wars are in full effect once again thanks to a healthy plethora of browsers available such as Safari, Firefox, Opera and Chrome all leading the way in the addition of new and exciting features in the upcoming CSS3 & html 5 specifications.

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Don’t kill IE6, degrade it.

Buzz about the internet has been rampant this year with many claiming that this is it, 2009 will be the death of IE6. A campaign in Norway has declared war with some great success. There are now some high profile Norwegian sites following with a week long campaign to educate users on more suitable browsers they can use instead of IE6.
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5 clever uses of the canvas tag

If there is one thing that really gets me exciting about the upcoming HTML 5 specification it’s the canvas tag. This relatively simple tag holds so much potential and power thanks to the strong well thought out JavaScript API available to manipulate what appears on the canvas.
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iPhone bookmarklet, for saving bookmarklets

Have you ever found a useful bookmarklet while browsing on your iPhone only to discover that you can’t actually save it directly from the phone. Frustrating I know, so much so that I decided to make my own bookmarklet that lets you save it on your phone. Let’s delve right in and take a look at the JavaScript involved.
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