5 Trends In HTML5 In 2012. At the end of 2011, the mobile industry believed that HTML5 was on the cusp of ubiquity.
Everybody would be using it to build apps and mobile websites and we would finally see real operating systems based on HTML5 start creeping towards acceptance. HTML5 was to become the dominant development stack, taking the mantle from all those native apps that had come to dominate the iOS App Store and Android’s Google Play. What actually happened is that HTML5 more likely took a step back in developer acceptance in 2012. Facebook Goes Native, Apple Cripples Webview Facebook has long been a proponent of HTML5. Facebook decided to change that in 2012. Facebook and its “hacker culture” is, like it or not, a beacon for mobile developers. Apple has some blame in the blowback against HTML5 in 2012, too. Hybrid The Name Of The Game Despite Facebook's move to native apps, more and more developers are incorporating at least a little bit of HTML5 into their apps.
Dealing With The Problem Of Hardware. What are some useful technical skills I can learn within a day. AWS: the good, the bad and the ugly. Here at awe.sm we have been hosted from the beginning on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Over the past 3 years we’ve learned a lot about what it’s good at, what it’s not so good at, and have formulated our own set of best practices for running a high-availability, high-performance system, which differ in some important ways from Amazon’s own advice. We’re going to talk about two related things: For people who have heard of AWS but haven’t started using it yet, we thought we’d lay out both the benefits and the challenges we’ve encountered.For those already using AWS, we go into some detail of the best practices we’ve picked up for running a high-performance service like ours, where uptime is one of the highest priorities.
It’s not an exaggeration to say that AWS has radically changed the economics of running a technology startup, but so slowly and gradually that it crept up on the industry. EC2 is a new way of running software we can deploy major upgrades on new hardware. The Story Behind HTML5 Sortable. Recently I published a jQuery plugin named HTML5 Sortable and despit its small size, it was one of the most challenging and interesting works that I did recently.
But you might be wondering why I needed another sortable plugin in the first place? In a recent project I was working on, I needed to create a sortable menu and I was going to use jQuery UI. But when I saw it adds 34KB of JavaScript to the project only to create a sortable list, I decided to write it myself. And now that almost all recent browsers support HTML5 drag and drop, why not to use it? Even better, IE supports this feature since version 5.5. Well, I didn't want to reinvent the wheel if it was already invented. So the IE problem was solved. At first inside dragstart handler I tried to set the visibility of the dragged element to hidden, but it caused the dragging clone also becomes invisible.
Then I found something interesting. Finally I found a better approach.