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HTML5, iOS and the open web
A couple of quick links I picked up on this week.. Google has made updates to its mobile gmail, mentioned here – http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/gmail-in-mobile-safari-now-even-more.html Mobile Gmail is a great example of a mobile web app that acts very much like a native app. And on a related note, Robert Scoble’s interview…
Read MoreNew Features in Flex 4, Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst and Mosaic (part 2)
In the first part of this blog I covered some of the new features in Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4 as described in a talk by Adobe Technical Evangelist Christophe Coenraets. This part will focus on LiveCycle Collaboration Service, Flash Catalyst, LiveCycle DataServices, and the relatively new LiveCycle Mosaic….
Read MoreNew Features in Flex 4, Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst and Mosaic (part 1)
Last week I attended a talk at Skills Matter by Adobe Technical Evangelist Christophe Coenraets in which he gave us a whirlwind tour of some of the new features available in the latest version of Flex and its ecosystem. There is a video of the event on the website but…
Read MoreDuncan: On The Impossible Bloomberg Makeover
Check out this great article from Dominique Leca over at UX Magazine: The Impossible Bloomberg Makeover It includes some concepts from IDEO who submitted a redesign proposal back in 2007… The comments are also interesting and focus on the fact that to an outsider Bloomberg might ‘look’ ugly, but to the actual ‘Bloomberg…
Read More3 Generations of RIA Trading
Matt’s post on RIA Streaming Architectures is something we have experienced over the years too. Liberator has always supported bidirectional messaging, but the first people to use it for trading still decided to do the trading part using an App Server, with real time responses and market data through Liberator…
Read MoreIgnoring UX could cost you
This is why it’s all about the UX and not the UI. Those in the business of developing front-end trading applications – take note. You have got to look beyond the graphics and explore the interaction while thinking about avoiding those “fat finger” moments… http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/01/how-a-stray-mouse-click-choked-the-nyse-cost-a-bank-150k.ars Here at Caplin we are passionate…
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