Articles on Web, mobile and other things I enjoy.

Form submission is handled through AJAX by default in JQuery Mobile. While this is great for production where you want a seemless user experience and transition between the form and confirmation page, if you have an error in the code in your form submission through Code Igniter, you’ll never see the error page. All you get is a re-display of your form which can leave you scratching your head. Read more

I have had the need to create simple bar charts to illustrate statistics on a sweepstakes website. Short of buying a package to allow the creation of 3-Dimensional bar charts, I used the method below to do just that. This example is illustrated within the Code Igniter Framework, but I believe it is easy to see how this can be applied to any other framework or method.
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I came across compatibility tables for Javascript events earlier today while trying to figure out why an “onchange” event wouldn’t work in IE browsers.
The site was a big help so I’m posting it here.

quirksmode.org Event Compatibility Tables.

This is a lightbulb I modeled for a project a month or so ago. Decided I’d post it for free download… The file is a Cinema 4D r12 file. If anyone is interested I can convert it to other formats.

Download Cinema 4D r12 File

I’ve started a new project recently. I have decided to build a web app for automotive service. I know there are plenty of these around, but it is something I have had floating in the back of my mind for some time so I decided that with my new interest in mobile development I’d give it a shot.
I have decided to use JQTouch and my primary PHP development framework Code Igniter for the task.
In researching, I’ve found a couple great resources for learning the process. I’ve started a list of links below which I’ll continue to add to. If you know of any I’ve missed, feel free to pass them along.

Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript – Copyright © 2009 Jonathan Stark

JQTouch Documentation – The JQTouch documentation at GitHub

The JQTouch Cheat Sheet – simple post @ PeepCode

Crimson Blog – local databases – a nice article on HTML5 databases and using javvascript to interact with them.

I have found that one of the best (and my favorite) solutions to producing mobile websites is to use the JQuery Mobile javascript library . It’s simple, straight forward approach allows web developers to utiize the skills they already know while still delivering the sort of mobile web experience that a user expects.

However, one of the issues I found with building mobile websites with JQuery Mobile was that when building multi-page sites in a single HTML file, I frequently found myself editing the content for the wrong page. I try to keep my code commented and separated, but if the code gets very long I find that it becomes unwieldy. The MVC approach of constructing pages in Code Igniter (and I suppose other MVC frameworks for that matter) makes for an ideal construction method for building out multi-page mobile websites as a single HTML document.

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