Mobile Tutorials

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    Images, max-width, and Mobile

    Many web developers prefer to keep as much control over the applications, especially when it comes down to how the application displays on a mobile device. I'll often see developers prevent zooming in mobile browsers, allowing them to manage display size: A useful snippet for...

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    MooTools Mobile: It’s Touching!

    When the community asked the MooTools team to add basic mobile event listening to MooTools' Event class, we listened; today MooTools supports all touch and gesture events. What if we want more detailed mobile event listeners though, like swipe with direction, pinch...

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    iPhone Scrollbars with iScroll

    Since we've had web browsers and JavaScript, we've been intent on replacing native browser functionalities, and for many reasons. Whether it be that the native look or functionality is ugly, doesn't work the same across browsers, or isn't as feature-rich as it should be, we've...

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    Fix Button Borders in WebKit Mobile

    One of the focuses of the blog redesign I've been working on is mobile support. This current blog design is passable at best when it comes to mobile display, and with mobile sales booming, I need to make sure my site is optimized for these...

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    Change Mobile Safari Highlight Color with CSS

    I love the amount of extra customization afforded to us by WebKit. That also makes me love the fact that, for the most part, WebKit Mobile is the choice renderer used by mobile devices. One rarely used style property is -webkit-tap-highlight-color, which allows developers...

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    Remove Input Shadows on iPad

    I was recently tasked with testing an existing web application on the iPad.  I was fairly certain the app would work without issues, but my larger concern was styling.  One undesirable style I found was that all text INPUT elements had a hideous top shadow effect.

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    Edge & Mobile Browsers

    From a developer's perspective, the Web is moving faster than ever. Thanks to reinvigorated browser vendors, frequent releases of new mobile devices, and our own need for better APIs and tools, we're seeing loads of movement across each platform. Since browser vendors like Mozilla...

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    Phone Number Detection in Mobile Safari

    Mobile Safari is chalk full of great features, one of them being the ability to detect phone numbers and turn them into links, allowing the user to tap the link and either call the number or add it to their address book.  There may be some...

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    Creating Mobile Web Applications with dojox.mobile

    I recently was asked to study the Dojo Toolkit's budding mobile solution, dojox.mobile, and create a basic web application using the tools provided.  I hadn't heard of dojox.mobile before but was very excited at the prospect of becoming a skilled mobile developer and maybe...

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    iPhone-Style Password Inputs with Appcelerator Titanium

    Most mobile applications ask you for your credential so that they may verify your account and pull information via an API.  My mobile application is no different.  The problem I ran into was that I couldn't find the method by which to emulate the iPhone's password...