About a month ago, an online retailer made the news for imposing an “IE7 Tax” on its customers. Any customer using the Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) browser was charged a 6.8% tax on their total bill. In their opinion, the tax helped offset the cost of supporting the IE7 browser. While the move probably riled… Continue reading »
Jan
23
How to use CSS3 gradients to improve your web apps
You’ve probably heard a lot about HTML5 and CSS3 recently. While they’ve been in production for years, we’re finally seeing browsers that support most or all of these new standards. What does this mean for you, your business, or your web apps? Rather than focus on the technical details, let’s focus on the important questions:… Continue reading »
Jan
09
Tutorial: Create a pure CSS navigation menu for your web apps
You’ve heard the saying, “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover.” It’s good advice, but largely ignored. Whether consciously or subconsciously, we pass judgements based on appearance on a daily basis. This fact is especially important in business. Studies have shown that people judge a web page/app in less than one second. What does that… Continue reading »
Sep
09
Tutorial: Improve web app usability with zebra striping
Businesses today are facing an overwhelming amount of data, which must be displayed in a usable format if it is to provide any value to the company. Of course, there are many ways to put that data in a usable format. For example, you could build an interactive report or even a web-based pivot table… Continue reading »
Aug
23
Geolocation: Web apps that know where you are?
Our HTML5 tutorial this week focuses on an area of HTML5 that you may already be using: Geolocation. Chances are, if you use a smartphone, you’ve encountered geolocation-aware web pages. In short, geolocation gives a web page/application the ability to find the user’s location. While that might sound like an invasion of privacy, there’s no… Continue reading »
Aug
16
HTML5 Tutorial: Canvas is flash without Flash
When you hear about HTML5, some new features cause more excitement than others among web developers. The new canvas element is one of those features. The canvas element is an area you can place on a page and fill with a variety of items, such as: Images, text, graphs, charts, animations, interactive tools, etc… If… Continue reading »
Jul
30
HTML5 Video: Benefits and drawbacks
In the latest HTML5 tutorial, we cover the topic that everyone’s been talking about: Video. HTML5 video will free us from “plugin prison.” Online video will no longer require external plugins, like flash, quicktime, or realplayer. Additionally, online video will be accessible via mobile devices, such as smartphones. This latest tutorial covers everything about HTML5… Continue reading »
Jul
19
HTML5 tutorial: New elements = easy maintenance
If you’ve ever worked with HTML, you know what “div overload” means. It’s when the web page designer relied too heavily on the “div” tag, resulting in a jumbled mish-mash of code. This creates code that is confusing and harder to maintain. HTML5 adds new markup elements designed to decrease our reliance on the div… Continue reading »
Jul
12
HTML5 tutorial: Forms are now exciting!
As mentioned last week, we are writing a series of HTML5 tutorials. They will help you learn more about the upcoming HTML standard, what’s new, and how it affects you. The new features in HTML5 will make you more productive and help you create even more powerful web applications. The first of our HTML5 tutorials… Continue reading »
Jul
06
HTML5: Much more than just iPhone video
The talk surrounding HTML5 these days is largely focused on video thanks to Apple’s decision to not allow Adobe flash on the iPod, iPhone, or iPad. However, there is so much more to HTML5 than the ability to play video natively. In fact, when you really begin looking at the enhancements in HTML5, you realize… Continue reading »
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Joe Stangarone is a 30+ year veteran of the IT industry and president of mrc—the software company behind the award winning development platform, m-Power. Joe shares his leadership and technology insights through the Cup of Joe Blog, focusing primarily on ways businesses can save time, money, and increase productivity using technology.
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