A few days ago jQuery 2.0 was finally released after much anticipation and discussion over it’s controversial decision to drop support for Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8. With ‘legacy’ IE browsers still making up a significant percentage of internet users for many sites, we take a look at what it means for designers and developers using the library for new web developments and investigate ways to take advantage of jQuery 2.0 for modern browsers whilst still providing a fallback for older IE browsers. Continue Reading »

What's more important; minified, more-efficient fit-for-purpose succinct code, or bloated, well-commented, readable and reusable code?

If you’re talking about backend code then of course you don’t really care about white space and code bloat, but recently I was tasked to take some existing JavaScript that more or less worked perfectly in one application and port it to another. Sounds easy, right? Continue Reading »

We all know that the internet evolves with its users and the latest prediction is that mobile and tablet users will soon surpass desktop PC users [1] [2]. It's no surprise; the majority of tablets are functionally more than sufficient for the casual internet user, plus you can get onto the App Store to download and open Angry Birds much faster than you can boot up Windows to open Solitaire Continue Reading »