Combining sticky headers with full height elements
Friday, November 8, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
In the ever-evolving world of web design, creating interfaces that are both aesthetically pleasing and functionally robust is a constant challenge. One area that has proven particularly tricky is the combination of sticky headers with full-height elements. As Philip Braunen points out, "Sticky positioning is one of those CSS features that's pretty delicate and ...
AI storytelling tool Tome reaches 1M users
Monday, February 27, 2023 by Richard Harris
Tome, the AI-powered storytelling format that turns your ideas into visually compelling narratives, announced the close of a $43 million Series B funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Existing investors Coatue, Greylock Partners, Audacious Ventures, and Wing Venture Capital also participated in the round, as well as new investor 8VC and angel investors ...
Modern cross browser testing helps engineers test faster
Thursday, October 1, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Applitools announced an industry report empirically proving that modern cross browser testing powered by Visual AI helps engineers test 18.2x faster across the full test cycle including writing, running, analyzing, reporting, and maintaining tests.
Data for the report was sourced from 203 engineers across 75 countries who spent 3,112 hours completing the Ultrafast Cr...
Visual AI from Applitools reaches one billion images analyzed
Tuesday, June 23, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Applitools announced its Visual AI technology has surpassed one billion images analyzed since launching commercially and is projected to double year over year. Each of the one billion images analyzed includes AI enhancing data from over 130 different browser and version combinations, viewport information, and direct user feedback on defects, dynamic content, and more. T...
Wix Unveils Editor X
Thursday, February 6, 2020 by Richard Harris
Wix.com, Ltd. unveiled Editor X, a website creation platform offering advanced design and layout capabilities specifically targeted to designers and web agencies. The wide, flexible new canvas allows the use of modern CSS technologies including Flexbox and Grid, all with precise drag and drop, so designers and web creators can control the exact position and styling of e...
Kony now supports making progressive web apps
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 by Richard Harris
Kony, Inc. announced new enhancements of its Kony AppPlatform to support Progressive Web Apps (PWAs). Kony is the first vendor to support enterprise-grade, low-code PWA development for mission-critical apps. Developers can use Kony’s visual low-code platform to develop PWAs, while leveraging backend services and third-party integrations for building enterprise app...
Lowcode platform by LANSA announces big updates
Wednesday, August 1, 2018 by Richard Harris
LANSA has announced a major new release of its software development platform, Visual LANSA. The update plans to improve developers' ability to build scalable mobile, web and desktop applications significantly faster than before, in order to accelerate customers’ digital transformation projects.
Visual LANSA key improvements include:
More enterpri...
KaiOS talks smart feature phones and app developers
Wednesday, June 13, 2018 by Richard Harris
KaiOS is a Linux-based mobile operating system built on a fork of Firefox OS that first appeared in 2017 and was developed by KaiOS Technologies Inc. in San Diego. We recently chatted with Tim Metz, Marketing Director at KaiOS Technologies, about KaiOS' emerging operating system for smart feature phones. We discuss why these devices are becoming relevant again, what...
Progressive web apps vs native apps: Showdown in 2018
Thursday, March 1, 2018 by Andrew Gazdecki
Apps have become an integral part of any brand's digital marketing efforts. You'd be hard-pressed to find a company that hasn't, at the very least, thought about developing an app. It would be even more difficult to find a company willing to deny the tremendous impact that an app can have on a brand's engagement and customer experience.
Given th...
POP Tracker launches their newest POP platform
Tuesday, December 13, 2016 by Richard Harris
POP Tracker (POPT), a supplier of 3rd party proof of performance solutions, has announced the launch of its latest Proof of Performance platform delivering expanded analytics and greater autonomy to advertisers and their agencies.Their new interface has been designed to reflect the changing work habits of the industry. In addition to a responsive design allowing users t...
Sean Carron tells us about Team Smiles and HappinessasaService
Monday, December 12, 2016 by Richard Harris
Happiness-as-a-Service is an application that allows kids awaiting a transplant, or those who received a transplant, to request a wish, and then connects them with benefactors who can fund their wishes. It enables users to nominate a critically ill child, see a child’s wish in their local community, and donate - among other features. The users can create &ld...
How Rapid Application Development is Changing Everything
Saturday, September 24, 2016 by Richard Harris
I admit it, every time I hear the word RAD I go back to the 80's when BMX freestyle was at it's peak (I still own my beloved GT Performer)! But the RAD we are talking about here is "Rapid Application Development" (RAD), that used to be something reserved for making quick apps with minimal code input, little functionally, and that you did not intend on maintaining f...
The Future Looks Bright For Mobile Betting
Wednesday, September 21, 2016 by Richard Harris
Adoption and engagement of quickly advancing digital technology has fundamentally changed the structure and use of consumer markets across the Internet over the last 10 years, and this is particularly true in the world of sports betting apps for Android and responsively designed, web-hosted betting platforms.Along with flipping the percentage of PC Vs Mobile t...
Release of Qlik Sense Enterprise 3.0 Supports Agile Development
Monday, May 23, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Qlik has announced the availability of its Qlik Sense Enterprise 3.0 business intelligence (BI) and analytics platform. With this latest release, Qlik has improved its Agile management and administration capabilities to support IT with more effective auditing, configuration, and governance for multi-geography deployments. New user interface enhancements in the Qlik Mana...
Converting Classic Windows Apps to Web, Mobile and Cloud
Friday, November 13, 2015 by Richard Harris
Mobilize.Net’s WebMAP3 converts classic Windows apps into modern web applications with responsive UI that scales across form factors from PCs to Macs to iPhones, iPads, and Androids.The company has recently announced that its WebMAP3 tool for mobilizing Windows applications now targets AngularJS/Bootstrap. In conjunction with the AngularJS framework, WebMAP3 uses Bootst...
WoodWing Inception HTML5 Authoring Tool Released Out of Beta
Friday, September 25, 2015 by Richard Harris
WoodWing is releasing its new Inception HTML5 authoring tool out of beta. The cross platform, cloud based authoring tool provides the ability to create and release responsive - device-independent HTML5 content for any channel, including the Adobe Digital Publishing Solution 2015, Facebook Instant Articles and Apple News, as well as WebCMS and print.WoodWing Inception pr...
HTML5Devconf in San Francisco Dives Into Web Technologies in October
Wednesday, August 19, 2015 by Richard Harris
HTML5Devconf will be once again be in San Francisco with this year’s conference held on October 19 – 20 and training sessions held on October 21 – 23.The event is one of the largest gatherings of technical software developers, designers and decision makers focused on Internet software technologies such as JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, Node.js and other cross platform web, mob...
With Material Design Rules, Google Has the Upper Hand on Crossplatform UX
Monday, July 27, 2015 by Guilherme Schmitt
For a long time, the world of mobile platforms was based on two absolute truths – Google offerings were in the utilitarian realm – more capable yet not aesthetically pleasing – while Apple software had a more narrow feature set with a strong focus on user experience. Recently however, those absolute truths fell apart. Google I/O 2014 saw the introduction of Materia...
Bonitasoft Releases Updates to Its BPMBased Application Platform
Thursday, June 25, 2015 by Richard Harris
Bonitasoft has released Bonita BPM 7 offering an end-to-end, BPM-based application platform that enables developers to create process-based applications that can be adapted to business changes in real time. The open source version of the platform is available for download now.Bonitasoft’s new platform enhancements provide an approach of decoupling of business logic, dat...
DevCon5 Will Delve Into HTML5 Concepts, Tools and Design in New York July 20 22
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 by Richard Harris
DevCon5 provides attendees with thought leadership on HTML5 concepts, tools and design best practices as well to provide insights into leveraging HTML5 to ensure a superior user experience through JavaScript frameworks, user metrics, responsive design, web services and more.The event will feature cross platform development experts and providing insight into the best app...
New Responsive Design Elements Offered with Kendo UI HTML5 and JavaScript UI Framework
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Progress has released several updates enhancements to its Telerik Kendo UI HTML5 and JavaScript UI framework, and its server wrappers for ASP.NET MVC, PHP and JSP, to provide more functionality in creating responsive design elements in cross-platform and mobile application development. The Kendo UI framework facilitates responsive design capabilities via a natural ...
Five Things to Consider Before Integrating e Signatures into Mobile Applications
Thursday, October 16, 2014 by Sherry Ghafarpour
Today’s consumers can do almost anything from their mobile devices, and they expect to be able to sign documents from those devices.According to Forrester Research, customers who are comfortable with web and mobile technologies are now driving e-signature adoption. By 2020 the majority of e-signature transactions will be launched from mobile devices. This will ensure se...
Hey JavaScript and HTML5 developers! The HTML5Devconf Is Rapidly Approaching!
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 by Richard Harris
There is still time to get in on the cross platform fun and register for the HTML5Devconf which will be held in downtown San Francisco on October 20 & 21 at Moscone Center.The conference features technical software developers, designers and decision makers focused on Internet software technologies such as JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, node.js and other cross platform web,...
The Tug of War Between Responsive and Native Design
Friday, September 19, 2014 by Sawyer Bateman
Let me start by saying there will always be tension between native and responsive design. As long as native operating systems are pushing the bounds of what's possible on a specific device, there will be responsive apps trying to keep up with that functionality. However, deciding what's best for your business or project isn't so simple as picking the best technology.&nb...
PayPal’s Braintree Launches New Mobile App Payments SDK
Thursday, July 17, 2014 by Richard Harris
Braintree has released its new mobile payments platform, v.zero SDK, which offers customizable drop-in UI features across platforms and, for the first time, enables Pay with PayPal. The company says that developers can integrate the SDK, set up payments and be up and running in 15 minutes or less. The Braintree v.zero SDK features:- Pay with PayPal: With the B...
Celtra Introduces Smart Mobile Video Ad Formats & Responsive Ad Design for Mobile Marketers
Wednesday, April 9, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Celtra, a provider of mobile display ad creation, serving and analytics, has launched a family of new Smart Video Ad Formats for all mobile devices. These formats use a new developed video technology created by Celtra and leverage newly developed responsive ad design capabilities.Companies participating in the launch include Skype, Opera Mediaworks, and A...
Liferay Releases SDK to Speed Up Custom Mobile App Development
Thursday, April 3, 2014 by Richard Harris
New developer toolkit helps Liferay’s customers develop and manage sophisticated mobile appsLiferay, Inc., which makes open source portal software, has released a mobile software development kit. The Mobile SDK is part of Liferay’s commitment to being a mobile-ready platform, which began with making responsive design work out of the box in Liferay Portal 6.2. The M...
Intel Announces XDK NEW HTML5 Cross platform Toolkit at HTML5DevCon
Saturday, October 26, 2013 by Richard Harris
Intel continues its push towards HTML5 development with the announcement of its new XDK NEW HTML5 Cross-platform Toolkit. The news was made at the HTML5DevCon event where Intel vice president Christos Georgiopoulos made the announcement.
The new toolkit for web and hybrid apps will help allow developers to create HTML5 apps and shorten time from idea to app store. Enha...
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