Local Web Storage with localStorage
All modern browsers (and Internet Explorer 8+) support the ability to store a small amount of data within the browser itself in what’s called Local Storage. The data stored here will persist between user sessions, and in this way it works a lot like cookies. But local storage is different from cookies in some big [...]
Parallax Effect with CSS and Javascript
Parallax is the phenomenon in which objects that are further away appear to move slower than objects that are closer. This can give an interesting 3D effect to websites. Our client Liqupel makes a waterproof nano-coating for mobile devices. While we were developing the rest of the site, they wanted to create a splash page [...]
PHP AJAX Long-polling Comet Demonstration
One thing missing from web applications that is found in, say native applications, is the ability to “push” data or events to the application. HTTP was built on the idea that once you got the document, you were done. Clever developers have found a couple of ways to get around this: Web Sockets – Advanced [...]