jQuery for Mobile

As the modern web trends go, jQuery has become the front runner in bringing the client side Javascript to a common platform. But will it be able to bring the same level of success when it comes to mobile where there’s a gaping gap for a common platform ? As a bunch of developers interested in mobile apps we certainly do hope so.

Following major announcements from Sencha Touch and jQTouch, the jQuery team has piped up: announcing jQuery Mobile. How the jQuery Mobile project differs from projects like jQTouch is the way in which it aims support a range of devices. This can only be achieved by making use of a unified design approach.

jQuery Mobile is Touch-Optimized Web Framework for Smartphones and Tablets. It is a unified user interface system across all popular mobile device platforms, built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation. Its lightweight code is built with progressive enhancement, and has a flexible, easily themeable design. More...

Performance Testing Comes Back With Boomerang

Whether you are website professional or beginner in web designing and maintenance field or simply an owner of blog, website performance is always a crucial factor for the success of a website.

Yahoo! released YSlow, a FireBug plugin several years ago. This tool can be used to analyze your Web pages for performance problems. Among the things that YSlow can do includes measuring page-load time, and beaconing its results back to a home server.

Since then, the front-end performance discipline has grown significantly with page-speed and page-test tools, and also services that trend the results of these tests over time. More...

WordPress 3.0 Has Arrived

WordPress 3.0 has just arrived on the scene — the thirteenth major release of the popular blogging software. It’s the result of six months of work from a total of 218 different contributors. You can download it now or upgrade from within your WordPress dashboard. More...