Contents tagged with HTML5

  • Learn ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, AngularJS & HTML5 in Thane. Registration started for November 2014 batches!

    We will be conducting a 5 day intensive training programs on ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, AngularJS and HTML5 in the month of November 2014. Small batches, personal attention and real world examples. Registration has already started. In case you or your friends are interested to join please get in touch with us as soon as possible. The courses are conducted in Thane. You may read more details here.

  • Using LinkedIn JavaScript API for User Authentication and Profile Retrieval

    Integrating third-party sign-in with a website is quite common these days. Just like Facebook and Twitter, LinkedIn too allows you to ingrate LinkedIn authentication with your own website. One simple way to achieve such an integration is to use LinkedIn JavaScript API. Using this API you can authenticate a user with their LinkedIn credentials and also retrieve their profile and connection information. Once retrieved you can use that information to integrate LinkedIn authentication with your website's security and membership framework.

  • One Time Event Handlers using jQuery and ASP.NET

    Most of the times the JavaScript event handlers attached with an element fire every time the event under consideration is raised. For example, if you wire a click event handler to the click event of a button then clicking that button will invoke the event handler function every time. At times, however, this behavior is undesirable. You can unsubscribe the click event handler when it gets executed the first time. That means you need to create event handlers that fire only one time. Luckily, jQuery provides an inbuilt way to accomplish this task - one() method.

  • Introduction to Bootstrap

    With the increasing popularity of mobile devices, web developers are required to think about their website design for mobile devices from the beginning of a development project. Developing web applications targeting multiple devices can be challenging. Web developers often resort to third-party frameworks for features such as theming, widgets and responsive design. One such handy, popular and open source framework is Bootstrap. Using Bootstrap you can develop responsive websites without bothering too much about CSS. It provides a rich CSS framework that you can customize if the need arises. Adding common web page elements such as navigation menus, buttons, form elements and typography is quite easy with Bootstrap. This article is intended to give you a basic understanding of Bootstrap so that you can start using it in your web applications.

  • Introduction to CSS3 Media Queries

    With the increasing popularity of mobile devices, web developers are required to ensure that their website renders well on different devices. One important aspect in such a rendering is applying different CSS rules to different requesting devices. To that end CSS3 media queries allow you to apply CSS rules depending on the media type and its capabilities. This article examines what CSS3 media queries are and how to use them in your web pages.

  • Working with Facebook SDK for JavaScript

    Now-a-days many websites provide Facebook integration to enhance the user experience. Features such as Facebook authentication, displaying Like or comments widgets, posting something on a user's wall are parts of this integration. The Facebook SDK for JavaScript provides functionality that can be consumed from the client side script to leverage such an integration. To that end this article shows you how to implement Facebook authentication, how to retrieve a user's details, such as user name and profile picture, and also illustrates how to post on the user's wall.

  • 5 CSS3 Features That Simplify Your Web Page Styling

    If you are a professional web developer chances are you use CSS for styling your web pages. The latest version of CSS - version 3 - adds many features to the CSS2 feature set, making it appealing to any web developer. This article discusses five features of CSS3 that you will find interesting. The features discussed in this article include - New selectors, border images, gradient, setting opacity and multicolumn layouts.

  • Creating a Slide Show Using the History API and jQuery

    During Ajax communication, page content is often modified in some way or another. Since Ajax requests are sent through a client side script, the browser address bar remains unchanged even if the page content is being changed. Although this behavior doesn't create any problem for an application's functionality, it has pitfalls of its own. That's where History API comes to your rescue. History API allows you to programmatically change the URL being shown in the browser's address bar. This article demonstrates how History API can be used with an example of a slide show.

  • 7 Things You Need To Know About Web Workers

    Web Workers allow you to run JavaScript code in the background without blocking the web page user interface. Web workers can improve the overall performance of a web page and also enhance the user experience. Web workers come in two flavors - dedicated web workers and shared web workers. This article discusses seven key aspects of web workers that you need to know if you decide to use them in your applications.