It is a bit of a farce that Apple’s HTML5 showcase only grants access to users of Safari. Christopher Blizzard, director of developer relations at Mozilla, puts it best when he explains that HTML5 is foremost about interoperability and that Apple is basically saying: “That’s right. If you’re not on Safari, then Fuck You.” The most [...]
It took us a while to get this working properly – largely due to some pesky javascript errors but also because we wanted to return a key/value pair. We had a big head start, however, thanks to German Schuager’s article which employs the jQuery Autocomplete plugin and clearly explains how to consume JSON from ASP.NET [...]
Earlier this year one of the brands I work with spent the time to develop a Facebook application. The goal was to connect with the brand’s industry in a format superior to simply creating a Facebook Group. In short order our application started to take off and it began to serve as a competitive differentiator. [...]
One of the potential downsides of using AJAX or AHAH is that Google Analytics will not register the AJAX or AHAH page loads — that is unless you explicitly instruct Google Analytics to track the asynchronously loaded pages. We first caught on to this through Dave Ward’s comments in this blog post. Our app employs [...]
