toe.js version 2 was released!
It’s been a week that I released version 2.0 of my touch library toe.js, so it’s time to describe the changes here. First of all the new version is smaller and faster. Just have a look at the grunt output:…
A proper ghost (overlay) for native HTML5 Drag and Drop based on DOM elements
Based on the technique which is described in this article it is possible to use markup to render the ghost overlay of the native HTML5 Drag-and-Drop feature. First of all, what’s the problem? Usually when you stop using mouse events…
Thoughts on rendering HTML markup into an image (or canvas)
This is probably not one of the newest topics, however I needed this technique recently and I felt that I have to write about this. First of all if you are looking for a comprehensive screenshot engine on the client…
iOS Pull-to-refresh in mobile Safari with native Scrolling
The iOS6 developer kit for native apps is out there for a while and Apple finally added a out of the box pull-to-refresh control called UIRefreshControl. However this feature is nothing new and used by plenty of apps in different…
Publish/subscribe pattern with DOM API
Once in a while every web app developer will reach the point where he has to decide for a way how his modules are exchanging data between each other. If you are in this situation should have been stumbled upon…
iOS6 Javascript debugging
Finally it’s here iOS6 provides remote debugging for web applications out of the box. No more console.log, no more weinre just the Safari on the mobile device and on your Mac. Simple activate this feature on your iOS6 device under…
requestAnimationFrame on iOS6 beta (+ integration in jQuery)
Great Apple added support for requestAnimationFrame with the webkit prefix. Hopefully this will give mobile Safari animations some boost! Based on Paul Irish’s blog post about a polyfill I created an integration into jQuery’s animation module. For that I used…
How to detect DOM manipulations (with jQuery)
Detecting any changes in the current DOM is not an easy task even though some current browsers support to listen to mutation events. These mutation events got recently deprecated in favor of DOM Mutation Observers and for a good reason….
Toe.js extensible touch gestures
Good news everyone. Today I officially release my touch gestures library toe.js. It makes use of the jQuery’s special event API to fire events, so you can easily integrate it in your current jQuery based projects. For more details check…
jQuery event binding switch
If you are building applications which are used on pointer and on touch devices then you are familiar with the situation that event handling can slightly differ on these device groups. So in my case. I provide the same UI…
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