The concepts behind responsive design have been around for a little while now, but it’s only now gaining traction amongst bigger organizations. Today, one more large organization can be added to the list of those supporting responsiveness. The Boston Globe launched a new and revamped site utilizing a responsive design created by the teams at [...]
Read MoreWe developers at Cantina collectively have tremendous respect for Paul Irish and his efforts to pull the web forward with the emerging standards related to HTML5 and his work with some of the leading tools to help developers embrace HTML5. When I saw his most recent blog post come across the Twitter wire… http://paulirish.com/2011/tiered-adaptive-front-end-experiences/ …I [...]
Read MoreThe article below has been making the rounds in the blogosphere, but I wanted to post it here as it includes some very poignant lessons on making the decision to deploy native applications built for specific mobile platforms or a web-based application that is deployed across many platforms. This is a decision that comes up [...]
Read MoreOrganizations 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 are also advantages to developing web apps. [...]
Read MoreBack in the waning days of the last century, the web was afire with neat-o graphics visualizations courtesy of a young stallion known as Macromedia Flash. Built in a cauldron of early Actionscript, movie clips and faux-physics, these experiments were often good for a moment or two of eww and aww, but also the inevitable [...]
Read MoreI am at the Brightcove PLAY conference where Jeremy Allaire made an exciting announcement concerning Brightcove’s product line up. Their video serving product will now be known as Videocloud. Allaire then announced a new product: Brightcove Appcloud, an open format app development, hosting, distribution and analytics platform. I expect Cantina will be supportive of this [...]
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, working with layouts is on track to [...]
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 movie that I knew how, which is [...]
Read MoreWhen I sat down to write this post, the main subject was going to be some of the Really Cool Stuff that can be done with the WebSocket API, a nifty W3c specification-in-training for bi-directional communications between Web apps and servers. The API is simple and relatively clean, had been getting strong support in the [...]
Read MoreYesterday, Apple announced the upcoming “Mac App Store”. For the typical end user, this is great. It makes finding software dead simple. Not only that, but the software is trusted to be high quality, and pretty much guaranteed to be virus-free (yes, contrary to what your aunt says, Macs *can* get viruses). It also provides [...]
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