Like it or hate it, the Apple iPhone has ushered in the age of the “Smartphone” which in turn has delivered mobile web-browsing to the masses. The mobile browser, whilst now broadly quite capable (at least on leading platforms), has introduced a slightly different set of requirements in terms of design and development of Websites.
Many, many designers, developers and others have written articles on how to design and/or develop for the mobile browser. I am aiming to summarise what I have learnt from several sources alongside my experience an opinion in a (hopefully) relatively quick and simple way
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Recently, I’ve been doing quite a lot of JavaScript development, part of which involved equalising heights of a group of similar elements on the page. I thought this would be very simple and indeed it was but it threw up a JavaScript quirk which I have seen several times before. The solution is simple, but More >
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