HTML5 Audio on mobile devices
HTML5 Audio on desktop browsers is a mess. But you haven’t experienced true pain and suffering until you try to get HTML5 audio done on mobile devices. This article is a follow-up to my talk at the...
View ArticleRobust (but hacky) way of portrait/landscape detection
On mobile devices it’s pretty easy (and in some cases also pretty cool) to change the look of your website respectively to the orientation of your device with media queries. However, sometimes the...
View ArticleOf mice and touches
Unbelievable, but true: Imagine you bought a new Windows Phone 7 (e.g. Nokia Lumia or Samsung Omnia) with “Mango” on it and try to get your mobile web app running, you will be really surprised when...
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Nobody wants HTML5 apps
There’s much buzz going on about HTML5 being just the wrong way of developing apps. Facebook switched to “kind of native” a while ago (and still has an app below standards), now LinkedIn dropped their...
View ArticlePreserving aspect ratio for embedded iframes
If you want to use videos on your webpage which are hosted on another server (YouTube, Vimeo, whatever), you most likely will use their embedding possibility rather than the HTML5 <video> Tag or...
View ArticlePreparing for an unprefixed future
I realized recently that I don’t have to use “-webkit” on the transition property anymore for Chrome. Actually, to use transitions in modern desktop browsers I don’t have to use any prefix at all. This...
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