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October 9, 2010
by James Brocklehurst
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A Brief Comparison of Titanium and PhoneGap for Cross Platform Mobile Development

Appcelerator Titanium and Nitobi PhoneGap are open source frameworks that allow web developers to use their existing skills to create applications for mobile devices. They work in different ways and so I was interested in investigating whether one had significant … Continue reading

JQuery Background Fader

April 29, 2010
by James Brocklehurst
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Animating {background-image} Opacity In JQuery Without Affecting Child Elements

When first learning JQuery I was frustrated at the inability to animate a simple fade-in fade-out on images set using the CSS background-image property. Workarounds involving the appending and fading of additional HTML elements have been around for a while … Continue reading