A look at using image maps in modern web development, including a case study on creating clickable triangular areas, handling multiple instances of the same image map, and using JavaScript to determine which image was clicked.
An update to the CSS3 Gradient Generator that changes how the code sample is generated, moving from the ‘background’ property to ‘background-image’ to resolve issues with default values for other background properties.
Updates to the CSS3 Gradient Generator, including color format selection and UI improvements.
A follow-up post on using Uploadify with Rails 3, focusing on setting up the controller to work with file uploads. This part covers handling content types and provides a full code sample for a Paperclip-based model and controller method.
I recently worked on a couple of Rails projects which both implemented the ability to upload photos to the server. One of these projects required the ability to upload multiple files at once and since HTML5 multi-file uploads aren’t ready yet I needed another solution. So I decided to move forward using a Flash based uploader, specifically Uploadify. Uploadify is a jQuery plugin which allows you to upload multiple files through a Flash based interface which provides helpful functionality like progress bars and multi-upload queuing, along with this, it’s super easy to use.
Let me start by this post by specifying that it actually originated from another post that I’m working on right now, but while writing it I went off on quite a tangent that I decided it was time to make it into a completely separate post, and start off with it. So this is part one of an iPhone web application piece that I am working on. While I am it, let me point out what the scope of this article is. This article is not about how to write an iPhone web application. It does not go into details on the syntax or use of technologies for the iPhone. It does explain some of the misconceptions between iPhone applications, iPhone targeted websites, and finally, iPhone Web Applications. I do plan to write more about the iPhone web application technologies and provide some examples and working code, but that is all currently beyond the scope of this article.
While researching on the topic over the last few weeks, I discovered what I believe is a misconception of an iPhone web application, and my goal is to hopefully, clear things up.
Let’s start by defining some of the possible ways of targeting an iPhone user, which actually diverges into two separate categories of its own. The first and probably the most popular way of targeting an iPhone user is through an iPhone app, sold through the iTunes App store. Coding and compiling Objective C/Cocoa based native iPhone applications.
Yet there are still other ways of creating a custom user experience for a user on the iPhone.
Welcome to glrzad.com, formerly rad-ev.com. It’s been quite a while since I’ve maintained a blog but I feel that now is a good time to get back to blogging. I wish I had some of my old articles/tutorials from rad-ev.com but I think their long gone, maybe I’ll do some digging to see if I can find them.