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The "Smart App Banner" feature in iOS 6 promises to let you pimp your app without the ugly splash screens that drive people so nuts. If you want to throw a meta tag on your home page, or on the incoming page (e.g. if referrer != yourself), then you are golden. If you want to do much more... no cigar, as this post discusses. I created some simple tests to play with the feature. Continue reading →

I have witnessed a new approach that aims to give you a compromise of "I want to be able to update the apps outside of a native update cycle" and "I have to use Web tech to do that". Fallback rendering, which Facebook uses in its latest native iOS application. Continue reading →

Collide itself focused on the "collaborative development" side of shared coding. I don't think this is the full breath of what they had working at Google though. I really hope that the world gets to see the full vision of the web development tools that they had put together. I have heard that it is pretty special. If Google isn't going to use the work, maybe we can see more open sourced, and once Bruce and team revolutionize revenue generation... maybe they can switch back and get back to developers :) Continue reading →

How Mozilla find a niche in the mobile OS space? They have gone after the International market with Boot to Gecko and the now announced name of Firefox Mobile OS. They aren't looking to come out on Verizon and go up against the Droids and the iPhone right away. That is a tough fight. Notice the wording in the title of the announcement (and the theme in most of the posts on the topic) "Mozilla Gains Global Support". Continue reading →

Chrome for iOS has hit the top of the app store, and having more browser competition is great. The keynote didn't go into any of the details, so you were left wondering. Continue reading →

We saw mobile Web developers rejoice at the news that Chrome is the default browser for Jelly Bean, although it is only on some devices (so far Nexus 7, not on the Galaxy Nexus).For Android to rise the steps to the land of developer happiness I think that we would like to see more steps.... Continue reading →

Cloud9 IDE get collaboration and more, Adobe Brackets moves forward, and Sublime Text 2 rounds out the fun advances. Continue reading →

Isaac has just written an interesting piece on ES6 modules from his perspective (which is an important one having creating npm and now leading node.js).He first takes a look at the issues with loaders in the wild, and then offers up a potential solution.... which interestingly doesn't have a module formal keyword. Continue reading →

There is always a lot of chatter on passwords and forcing their complexity for users.Want to add a sane "choose password" component? There are many, but complexify is a good new one. Continue reading →

Santosh Rajan has created LispyScript, which allows you to write your JavaScript in a Lisp-like syntax. With the tree based structure you can write macros to change the tree before it is all serialized out as JavaScript. Continue reading →