Often going by the nickname "Hondo", Matthew Crist is an innovative user experience developer at Cantina with a passion for good design and simplicity. Matthew enjoys working across the entire range of user experience from conception and design to efficient development during implementation. He has been helping companies craft solutions to their online interaction challenges for over ten years. During his time as a consultant, he has worked with companies large and small such as Macy's, Limited Brands, Rue La La and EH Publishing. Most recently, he has developed a strong passion for creating simple solutions to the new challenges that are brought about by our new touch enabled device overlords.
I’ve often been annoyed by inner scrollbars on a website. As a user/customer, I shouldn’t be required to scroll twice just to view the content that I want to consume. Thankfully, with the rise in tablets and the forthcoming release of OS X Lion, we have a new [...]
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Organizations have options when developing mobile apps; the most significant choice is whether to develop native apps for specific phone OS’s (iOS, Android, Symbian) or to develop HTML5 web apps. Since native apps have more direct access to the phone’s hardware they can be more powerful, but there [...]
Read MoreWeb developers have long possessed a deep understanding of the box models that are implemented by web browsers. We know the ins and outs of each one and can help you with your float bugs and double margins with ease. Thankfully, with CSS3 and the flexible box model, [...]
Read MoreLast week, Adobe released a tool for converting Flash to HTML5 called Wallaby. Because we’ve been playing around with mobile web apps I was interested to give it a shot, so I created a very simple test on which to compare. I started by creating the simplest flash [...]
Read MoreThis past weekend I attended the 2010 jQuery Conference in Boston where jQuery Mobile was released to much fanfare. jQuery Mobile aims to make web development easier for mobile devices by utilizing the principles of progressive enhancement in that you basically start with any old HTML page and [...]
Read MoreSo, you want to make an app for an iOS device? Well, you have two choices when creating your app. The first option is a native app written in Object C while the second option would be to build a mobile web app powered by HTML5, CSS3 and whatever javascript framework makes you happy. Here are some reasons why you might want to take another look at an HTML5 web app…
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