Let’s say you used your LottsaMoneyBank web site to access your account but didn’t log out. It’s possible for another unscrupulous web page to create a hidden “IFrame”, load up a LottsaMoneyBank page, and since you aren’t logged out, attempt to do…
There are a few ways to work with the Facebook API in a HTML5 application. You can use their JavaScript SDK, you can do the integration on the server side, or you can make direct calls with your own JavaScript functions. I'm going to use that last technique.
My family hosts an event called the Chili Bowl once a year. All our friends bring over chili, we play football, then eat the chili.…and most importantly vote to see who brought the best chili and who brought the most original…
Most of the projects that I have worked on used a desktop web browser for a front end. The nice thing about desktop computers is that people don’t go around flipping monitors onto their sides. Another nice thing is that users either keep…
Mobile application development doesn’t always mean native apps for iPhone and Android. If you are an experienced web developer you can use HTML5 to make great apps that have a great look and feel.
I’m working on a small HTML5 mobile app that…
Over the last couple days I’ve read a few article linked on Hacker News about the “real name” problem on social web sites. I first heard other people talking about this a few years ago when Twitter was taking off. A lot of ‘famous’…
As a Web developer, I have a confession to make: I prefer writting desktop applications.
In an enterprise-level Web application, just to get a usable display tier you need to perform gymnastics in JavaScript, CSS, HTML, JSP, Java, and Struts (a similar set of gymnastics…
