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jQuery Mobile 1.4: Cleaner, Faster and More Powerful

13 January 2014 / 2 Comments

jQuery Mobile 1.4: Cleaner, Faster and More Powerful

jQuery Mobile is a great JavaScript framework that’s designed to help you build mobile web apps and mobile-friendly websites quickly and easily. The latest version, 1.4, came out last month, and it represents a big step forward for the framework.

In this article you’ll get an overview of the changes and improvements in 1.4, and learn how to apply some of these techniques to your own websites and web apps. You’ll look at:

  • The performance improvements in 1.4 that result in a smoother, faster experience for users
  • The new, simpler theming system
  • The new default theme and simplified swatches
  • 1.4’s brand-new SVG-based icon set
  • The new flipswitch widget for smoother, more flexible flip switches
  • The filterable widget that lets you filter anything from listviews to tables and paragraphs of text
  • A new tabs widget for separating your page content into tabbed sections, and
  • A brief summary of the API changes and deprecations that are new to 1.4.

Let’s start with a quick look at how the jQuery Mobile team has improved performance in 1.4.

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jQuery Mobile 1.3: What’s New?

1 March 2013 / Leave a Comment

jQuery Mobile 1.3: What's New?

jQuery Mobile is a handy JavaScript framework that makes it easy for you to build mobile web apps and mobile-friendly websites. jQuery Mobile 1.3 came out last week, and it has all sorts of lovely new features and improvements over 1.2. In this article you’ll get an overview of these changes, and see how to use jQuery Mobile 1.3 to enhance your websites and web apps even further.

You’ll look at:

  • Responsive web design improvements
  • Responsive grids
  • Two types of responsive tables for displaying data
  • A new panel widget
  • Improvements to range sliders and other form fields
  • A new navigate method and event for easy history manipulation
  • A new easy way to build autocomplete listviews
  • New options for dialogs and popups
  • Two new icons, as well as other icon improvements, and
  • A few miscellaneous enhancements to the framework and documentation.

We’ll start by taking a look at the concept of responsive web design, and see how jQuery Mobile 1.3 makes it easier than ever to build responsive webpages.

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jQuery Mobile 1.1: Smoother, Faster, Nicer

16 April 2012 / Leave a Comment

jQuery Mobile 1.1: Smoother, Faster, Nicer

The latest version of jQuery Mobile, 1.1, has just hit the streets, and it has some great new features and improvements over 1.0. In this article you’ll get a quick run-down of jQuery Mobile 1.1, and all that it has to offer you as a mobile web developer.

You’ll look at:

  • Improved fixed header and footer toolbars
  • Enhancements to page transitions, and two new transition effects
  • Loading spinner and text improvements
  • Cute mini form elements
  • Nicer-looking flip switches
  • Improved sliders
  • Disabling markup enhancements and Ajax handling for entire containers, and
  • A few other minor improvements in version 1.1.

At the end of the article, you’ll also get a brief taste of the new features and widgets that are slated for the upcoming jQuery Mobile 1.2 release.

Let’s start with one of jQuery Mobile 1.1’s headline features: its vastly improved fixed header and footer toolbars.

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The Top 30 Websites, Viewed in IE6

12 November 2010 / 10 Comments

The Top 30 Websites, Viewed in IE6

Internet Explorer 6. Nine years on, it’s still a headache for web designers and developers across the globe!

Most of us would like to forget about this horrid old browser — first launched in 2001, for crying out loud — but there’s always that client or user who insists on using it (or is forced to by their employer). Even among the audience of W3Schools — a web-savvy crowd if ever there was one — there are still around 5% of visitors using IE6 at the time of writing.

The result of all this is that we are forced to spend hours of extra coding time, just to make our sites work in this outdated browser.

How many big sites these days actually bother supporting IE6?

But how many big sites these days actually bother supporting IE6? One might think that they all would, considering their huge user bases. But is this the case?

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