Untitled

taitems: iOS Inspired jQuery Mobile Theme jQuery Mobile doesn’t...

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 21:50:18 -0400

iOS Inspired jQuery Mobile Theme

jQuery Mobile doesn’t deviate far from the pattern established by its sibling libraries: provide something that normalises functionality and/or design across browsers and operating systems.

The work by the Filament Group has been vital for standardising the look and feel of jQuery Mobile, especially when dealing with incredibly dated or under-featured mobile browsers. Borrowing upon conventions established by both the iOS and Android operating systems, they created something that is palatable across a range of devices.

There will be odd instances when you need an application to look as close to native as possible. I completely agree with the Filament Group’s arguments against this, but currently designers are forced to roll their own solution. What I have created is the beta framework for an iOS-inspired theme that attempts to bring jQuery inline with the native iOS UI elements. I actually began this project when the first alpha was released, but with taking on a new job and other responsibilities, I found myself lagging behind the release schedule. I’m not sure of the response this will get, so hopefully I can gauge how much time I should spend on this in future.

But without further ado: here is the iOS-inspired theme for jQuery Mobile. It works great in Chrome, Safari, iPhone and iPad mobile Safaris.

Some Caveats

To achieve the look of the iOS style back button with CSS3, the HTML is customised and therefore must be copied and pasted manually. The back button template can be found in the GitHub readme file.

The CSS3 back button isn’t perfect, there are some jaggedness and shadow issues.

Plenty of elements still remain unstyled, or are missing hit state styling.

Cross browser compliance is a low priority.

This is an add-on theming layer. It was impossible to fork the actual jQuery Mobile theme and attempt to keep up with their changes, so this just sits as a skinning layer on top.

Some Issues This Exposes in jQuery Mobile

Dialogs need some serious work. I could have spent a lot of time and made my dialogs look exactly like the iOS ones, but this would have involved some pretty hectic CSS and JavaScript. As is I had to do a bit of a work around to get them to dock to the bottom and not the top. Most notably broken, the inability for these dialogs to behave like modals - showing the background as obscured.

Back button syntax. They’re are definitely some cleaner ways to create the iOS style back buttons. I was keen to avoid images, but an image mask might have done really well in this situation. Regardless of that, you will probably find yourself plugging in custom HTML when working with jQuery mobile, and not just the buttons.

It’s bloody hard to keep up with the release cycle. This is not a bad thing ;)

I am, as always, open to merging pull requests and suggestions to help improve this project. I must also stress that it is important that truly innovative changes best be held off until jQuery Mobile makes it out of beta. ■

Redesigning The Washington Post web site

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 21:48:52 -0400

washingtonpostinnovations:

It’s tricky changing the tires on a moving bus, and washingtonpost.com has been cruising since 1995. The site was an early digital innovator, but technological advances and evolving forms had made it a mishmash of experiences. It was great for the thing you came for, but if you wanted to look around, it was kind of a mess.

This holistic overhaul is designed to make finding stories and moving from one to the next much easier. We’ve grouped similar functions and content, such as related visuals and stories (see below). Here’s an example of how contextual links have changed on article pages: Instead of four zones competing for a user’s attention, we now have one organized area promoting deeper engagement:

On section fronts, we’ve surfaced the depth of our coverage in multiple ways.

Read More

Cocoa Box Notes: "No App Is An Island"

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 21:48:49 -0400

Cocoa Box Notes: "No App Is An Island":

cocoabox:

As a tool for productivity, Penultimate aspires to be a critical part of your creative and note-taking workflow. Penultimate 3.3 is a huge update that adds high-quality integration with popular services Dropbox and Evernote, as well as new features to help you move your data around your iPad…

The Spartan Warrior: How To Lose Fat: A Beginner's Guide

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 21:48:47 -0400

The Spartan Warrior: How To Lose Fat: A Beginner's Guide:

thespartanwarrior:

(via Zahrada on Reddit)

Losing fat is actually pretty simple for the average person, but the amount of misinformation out there is astounding, so here is everything that I know from anecdotal evidence and research. People do ketogenic-type diets (no or very extreme low-carb) or intermittent…

savorytheme: The Mast Brothers Chocolate Scout magazine...

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 21:48:44 -0400

savorytheme:

The Mast Brothers Chocolate

Scout magazine documents the love, dedication and adventure that the Mast Brothers put into their artisan chocolate.

The Mast Brothers Chocolate factory occupies only three rooms in a nondescript building in Williamsburg. The first doubles as a storefront that opens on the weekend to customers with much of the equipment fully exposed to the public. It’s a different story during the weekdays, it is there that the process of making their bean to bar chocolate begins and end. From sorting out the cacao beans to wrapping each bar by hand, the operation starts from one room to another and back again until the final product.

Read more from The Scout—a new lifestyle and design site highlighting experiences in New York City.

taitems: iOS Inspired jQuery Mobile Theme jQuery Mobile doesn’t...

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 21:48:10 -0400

taitems:

iOS Inspired jQuery Mobile Theme

jQuery Mobile doesn’t deviate far from the pattern established by its sibling libraries: provide something that normalises functionality and/or design across browsers and operating systems.

The work by the Filament Group has been vital for standardising the look and feel of jQuery Mobile, especially when dealing with incredibly dated or under-featured mobile browsers. Borrowing upon conventions established by both the iOS and Android operating systems, they created something that is palatable across a range of devices.

There will be odd instances when you need an application to look as close to native as possible. I completely agree with the Filament Group’s arguments against this, but currently designers are forced to roll their own solution. What I have created is the beta framework for an iOS-inspired theme that attempts to bring jQuery inline with the native iOS UI elements. I actually began this project when the first alpha was released, but with taking on a new job and other responsibilities, I found myself lagging behind the release schedule. I’m not sure of the response this will get, so hopefully I can gauge how much time I should spend on this in future.

But without further ado: here is the iOS-inspired theme for jQuery Mobile. It works great in Chrome, Safari, iPhone and iPad mobile Safaris.

Some Caveats

To achieve the look of the iOS style back button with CSS3, the HTML is customised and therefore must be copied and pasted manually. The back button template can be found in the GitHub readme file.

The CSS3 back button isn’t perfect, there are some jaggedness and shadow issues.

Plenty of elements still remain unstyled, or are missing hit state styling.

Cross browser compliance is a low priority.

This is an add-on theming layer. It was impossible to fork the actual jQuery Mobile theme and attempt to keep up with their changes, so this just sits as a skinning layer on top.

Some Issues This Exposes in jQuery Mobile

Dialogs need some serious work. I could have spent a lot of time and made my dialogs look exactly like the iOS ones, but this would have involved some pretty hectic CSS and JavaScript. As is I had to do a bit of a work around to get them to dock to the bottom and not the top. Most notably broken, the inability for these dialogs to behave like modals - showing the background as obscured.

Back button syntax. They’re are definitely some cleaner ways to create the iOS style back buttons. I was keen to avoid images, but an image mask might have done really well in this situation. Regardless of that, you will probably find yourself plugging in custom HTML when working with jQuery mobile, and not just the buttons.

It’s bloody hard to keep up with the release cycle. This is not a bad thing ;)

I am, as always, open to merging pull requests and suggestions to help improve this project. I must also stress that it is important that truly innovative changes best be held off until jQuery Mobile makes it out of beta. ■

Building, House And Pest Inspections, Pre Purchase, Report, Independent Home Inspector - Sydney, InspectIt.com.au

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 19:09:51 -0400

See on Scoop.it - Pest Inspector

Building and Pest Inspection Services in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane. Get your home inspected by our qualified inspectors, call 1300 557 047.

See on inspectit.com.au

Termite Inspection Sydney - Using The Direct

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 19:09:33 -0400

See on Scoop.it - Pest Inspector

Termite Inspection Sydney - Using The Direct: There are a lot of factors why we want termite inspection Sydney. …

See on kristbr53.nexconsultores.com

How Building Inspections Sydney Companies Work

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 19:09:21 -0400

See on Scoop.it - Pest Inspector

The Building and pest inspection Sydney has turned around the construction industry and upgraded the standards of properties being (How Building Inspections Sydney Companies Work: The Building and pest inspection Sydney has turned around the co…)…

See on whydir.com

Building and Pest Inspections Sydney | Dilapidation Report | New Home Property

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 19:09:13 -0400

See on Scoop.it - Pest Inspector

Best Building Inspections is one of Sydney’s most trusted and longest established building and pest inspection companies. Contact us on 02 9531 7965 for your new home and property inspections.

See on bestinspections.com.au

How Making An Investment In Melbourne Property Requires Proper ...

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 19:09:02 -0400

See on Scoop.it - Pest Inspector

Before any sale agreement is finalized, pest inspection, surveys and strata inspection are carried out. Experts advise to buy investment property only if one is going to stay in Melbourne for more than 3 years.

See on articleslocation.com

Building, House And Pest Inspections, Pre Purchase, Report, Independent Home Inspector - Sydney, InspectIt.com.au

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 19:06:08 -0400

See on Scoop.it - Strata Inspections

Building and Pest Inspection Services in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane. Get your home inspected by our qualified inspectors, call 1300 557 047.

See on inspectit.com.au

Antimite Expects Heavy Termite Year - MarketWatch (press release)

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 19:05:28 -0400

See on Scoop.it - Strata Inspections

Antimite Expects Heavy Termite YearMarketWatch (press release)Smaller than a grain of sand, these pests can slip through cracks as thin as a few sheets of paper. “Termites can remain in homes for years, unnoticed by homeowners,” Tejeda said.

See on news.google.com

Mansfield residential care center cited for bedbugs, must exterminate - Mansfield News Journal

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 19:05:18 -0400

See on Scoop.it - Strata Inspections

Mansfield residential care center cited for bedbugs, must exterminateMansfield News JournalDiamond View assisted-living center has had Absolute Pest Control treating the residence for bedbugs.

See on mansfieldnewsjournal.com

Socastee Thai restaurant earns nearly perfect inspection score - WMBF

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 19:05:10 -0400

See on Scoop.it - Strata Inspections

Socastee Thai restaurant earns nearly perfect inspection scoreWMBFAn inspector cited the hibachi style buffet restaurant with nine violations during its latest routine inspection. According to DHEC’s report, two of those are critical violations.

See on wmbfnews.com

USDA Announces Final Environmental Impact Statement and Plant Pest Risk ... - PoliticalNews.me (press release)

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 19:05:00 -0400

See on Scoop.it - Strata Inspections

USDA Announces Final Environmental Impact Statement and Plant Pest Risk …PoliticalNews.me (press release)WASHINGTON, —The US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), published two assessments prepared…

See on politicalnews.me

Building, House And Pest Inspections, Pre Purchase, Report, Independent Home Inspector - Sydney, InspectIt.com.au

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 03:10:07 -0400

See on Scoop.it - Strata Inspections

Building and Pest Inspection Services in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane. Get your home inspected by our qualified inspectors, call 1300 557 047.

See on inspectit.com.au

Building, House And Pest Inspections, Pre Purchase, Report, Independent Home Inspector - Sydney, InspectIt.com.au

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 02:53:12 -0400

See on Scoop.it - Sydney Building Inspection

Building and Pest Inspection Services in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane. Get your home inspected by our qualified inspectors, call 1300 557 047.

See on inspectit.com.au

Part 2 - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (Chs 11-24)

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 02:52:52 -0400

See on Scoop.it - Sydney Building Inspection

Part 2. Classic Literature VideoBook with synchronized text, interactive transcript, and closed captions in multiple languages. Audio courtesy of Librivox. Read by John Greenman.

See on youtube.com

Latest Technology News: Technology Video & Technology News // Current

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 02:52:29 -0400

See on Scoop.it - Sydney Building Inspection

Find the latest technology news and get your technology video fix at Current.com, where you make the news and we put it on TV. Current is your source for new technology news, gadgets news and more. Search the latest technology news today.

See on current.com