CSS Animations vs the Web Animations API I’ll start this off with an introduction to the Web Animations API. The Web Animations API provides a way for developers to directly manipulate the browser’s animation engine using JavaScript.
How HTML5 APIs can fingerprint users Recent W3C additions to HTML standards allow developers to communicate with the user device for enhanced options in websites, apps or games. It is not surprising that many APIs are exploited to actually calculate a more precise user fingerprint.
5 JavaScript APIs to Empower Your Mobile Web Pages Today we’re all aware, at least we should be, that the mobile market is significant when developing anything for the web. For years there has been discussion and differing points of view about native applications versus web applications and on which is the best. Regardless of your opinion, it used to be a fact that […]
My two favourite (underused) HTML5 media features Both of these are stable, simple and useful, yet they don’t seem to be used much in the wild (yet). Maybe it’s just lack of awareness so here are a couple of demos to hopefully generate a bit of interest. Page Visibility API & PlaybackRate Media Attribute
Measuring Network Performance with Resource Timing API > Network performance is a critical factor in delivering a fast and responsive experience to the user. In fact, our goal is to make all pages load in under one second, and to get there we need to carefully measure and optimize each and every part of our application: how long the page took to […]
Get Smart with Image Recognition APIs >Photo APIs have long been a staple of developer applications. There are more than 350 photo APIs in the ProgrammableWeb directory and almost 800 photo mashups. However, most applications integrate with photo sharing services, like the Flickr API and Instagram API, missing the real power of photo APIs. This post identifies four ways that APIs […]
A Thought on HTML5 Geolocation >If you want to recognize user’s location, the Geolocation API of HTML5 helps to provide location based information or route navigation details of the user.
Building an HTML5 Text Editor with the FileSystem APIs >In recent years we have seen the introduction of a whole new set of APIs that aim to give developers the power to store data on a user’s machine. In this blog post you are going to learn how to utilize the FileSystem API to create a virtual filesystem on the user’s machine that you […]
Obtaining User Location with HTML5 Geolocation API In the past, to retrieve user location, we might need to provide a list of locations for users to opt-in, or rely on the device IP address to make a rough estimation of their location. Today, we can do this job in a much leaner way with less complexity using Geolocation API.
HTML5 Geo-location API and Google Maps API In this weeks tutorial we’ll be creating a jQuery plugin that serves as an introduction to the HTML5 Geo-location API to request your current location. Once we have the location, we will then draw a route from there to Dublin, Ireland (or wherever you tell it to) using the Google Maps API. This could be […]
Adobe Launches PhoneGap 3.0 with New Plug-In Architecture, APIs and Better Tools Adobe today launched version 3.0 of its PhoneGap open source mobile app development platform. PhoneGap has long been one of the most popular tools for developers who want to write cross-platform mobile apps in HTML5, CSS and JavaScript.
How to Retrieve and Display Battery Status with HTML5 Apart from introducing new elements, the people behind web standard, W3C, also introduced a set of JavaScript APIs that allow developers to communicate with the device system including retrieving battery status.
