At our HTML5 HackDay a few weeks ago some of my colleagues tried using web workers to enhance our existing applications. The multi-threading supports provided a significant performance boost to our application.However, does this mean that web workers are the future of web-app ...Read More
Category: HTML5
Websocket – First implementation impressions
Much to my surprise I ended up taking part in the inaugural Caplin HTML5 Hack Day. I say surprise because I'm more at home writing servers and APIs than working in a browser. Thankfully, it seems there's a feature in HTML5 ...Read More
HTML5 Toolkits for Complex Web Applications
At Caplin, we build very complex web applications for financial trading, and we are often asked for advice about which of the many JavaScript toolkits out there are the best. Embarking on developing a web application can be ...Read More
Why no WebSocket server API?
WebSocket consists of a simple Javascript API and a protocol definition. It is fairly simple in concept and the Javascript API makes it very easy to use within any web page. There is lots of talk about compatibility, ...Read More
HTML5 Hackathon
As the clock struck midday last Monday, we started our inaugural Caplin 24 hour HTML5 themed hackathon. Inspired by similar days run by Atlassian (amongst others) we were keen to release our engineers from any shackles and leave them ...Read More
HTML5 WebSocket support
Dylan has posted a good round up of the state of WebSocket support over on CometDaily. As you can see, the browser support is limited, and the version of WebSocket supported comes into it too. The ...Read More
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 ...Read More
Web Page vs Web App
When does a web page cease to be a page and become something that is more like an app? The answer is pretty subjective, and two people can argue (and have) about this for hours and still not agree. Superficially the ...Read More
Windows Phone 7 development
Windows Phone 7 is the latest thing in the fast growing world of mobile. Microsoft's previous attempts all seemed to be based on shrinking down their desktop OS to work on various handheld devices, but the problem is, that didn't work ...Read More
IE9 always playing catchup
I blogged about whether IE9 will save us from IE6 when the IE9 beta was released. I just read a blog by Alex Russell - IE 8 is the new IE6 which echoes some of the same points that ...Read More