Challenge:

We have all faced a common problem of bad User Experience while browsing the web on a mobile device. Remember the experience while browsing you had to scroll left/right to see different areas on the page from a touch based device! It is because as web developers we hardly cared of catering to different screen sizes, touch and end User Experience. Using static layout/table sizes doesn't really help.

Solution…

JavaScript is client side scripting language used in almost all modern websites and Web applications. JavaScript can enhance User Experience of a website and provide rich interactive features. With latest HTML specs, more and more developers are inclining towards JavaScript development. Here are few tools that will help you get started.

Tools to help JavaScript Development:

Visual Studio 2012 (Windows): Visual studio…

HTML Input Forms: Introduction

As web developers we would know what HTML forms is. And as an end user we deal with them very often. Whether you are searching for a content or signing in to your email, social networking account, you still end up using HTML input form.

HTML forms is easily one of the most frequently used HTML element over the web. The developers and designers, who would create such forms, would also write…

There is a lot of buzz about building Hybrid mobile applications. In this blog series we will talk about building Hybrid mobile applications using PhoneGap. For those who are new to hybrid apps let’s review the pros and cons of this approach.

Why Hybrid?

• Hybrid apps lets you develop and deploy apps much quicker to the app store/marketplace, as you do not have to rewrite the code for different platforms…

With the mobile devices growing in number, web development has become a little more complex. People now access Internet from tablets, smartphones, and other mobile devices, which means as a developer you need to cater to different screen sizes/devices. Earlier we might have relied on fixed-width web page layouts, which certainly would result in a bad user experience on different screen sizes.

One of the approaches used…

HTML5 introduces new markup elements and loads of JavaScript APIs to the specification which provides developers an consistent way to access native functionality across browsers. This not only brings benefit to the developers, but also to the designers! They will now be able to carry out complex tasks and easily add multimedia to the web. HTML5 tends to make the markup much more meaningful and cleaner than before with…