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Here at Progress we’re infatuated with Pokémon Go, the Pokémon collecting app that has taken the world by storm. As such, we’ve invited a few of our Telerik Developer Experts to talk about the game, and the longterm impact it’ll have on the mobile and business worlds. The questions for today’s Slack chat are: What […]
Facebook gave a small group of reporters a tour of its Prineville, OR data center. In the process, the company also showed off its mobile device lab for testing on physical devices new iOS and Android versions of the Facebook app, Messenger and Instagram.
People use their mobile devices to shop more than ever before. But the average mobile retail site doesn’t live up to expectations—leading brands to lose customers and sales. To find out which factors lead to mobile site underperformance, Google partnered with SOASTA, a leading analytics company.
Typically, emails are coded starting with an old school, table based desktop version, with mobile styles applied through a max-width media query to reflow the tables. In email clients that don’t support this, this approach can result in inconsistent rendering and difficult to read emails.
Filters were originally part of the SVG specification. However, when their usefulness became evident, W3C started working on adding some common filter effects to CSS as well. CSS filters are pretty powerful and incredibly easy to use. You can use them to blur, brighten or saturate images among other things. They can be used alone […]
I have been a bit obsessed with SVGs and CSS animations lately, so I thought it could be a good idea to share my latest finding with you guys. The idea of this article is walk you through some basic concepts that will allow you to create cool animations like this one, with SVGs and […]
Picture the scene. You’re using your mobile device to browse a website and book some important concert tickets. You’ve have been eagerly awaiting this concert for months. You get right through to the checkout screen, enter your card details and hit submit. And then your flaky 3G connection drops. Screaming and pain ensues.
A screenshot is usually displayed from a PNG image. If the screenshot is mainly for the web consumption, often it is not important to have every pixel portraying the color faithfully. This is an opportunity to reduce the bandwidth consumption by delivering a reasonably good, quantized version of the screenshot in a smaller PNG image.
Technical articles about Progressive Web Apps abound, but few tackle the question of why businesses should build Progressive Web Apps and why they should do so now.
From browsers to native apps, and back to browsers again. Progressive web apps are about to unveil the true potential of modern browsers and new web standards. How did we get here?