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Finally all browser vendors are on the same page when it comes to gradients The Webkit team introduced CSS gradients on April 14th, 2008. Shortly afterwards they presented it to the W3C for consideration as a recommendation. Sometime later, Mozilla decided to implement CSS gradients using the same notation the Webkit gradients, but with the […]

If there’s one thing in CSS3 that really gives me warm fuzzies, it’s the flexible box model. What it does is provides a way to create many layout affects that otherwise would require workarounds with float or positioning or both. And there are many types of layouts that without out it would require JavaScript to […]

Multiple background images allow one to build up complex layered visual effects using one element. In the past such effects would require each background image rendered inside its own element, these being either nested or stacked on top of each other with positioning. When I was working on creating the progress bar example, I ran […]

You know the problem. No matter what you do you can’t get two elements to line up properly. The connecting points are always off by one pixel. Everyone doing Web development at some point or other comes across a layout problem where no matter what you do, you can’t get two elements to align perfectly. […]

For those of you who visit my blog looking for how to put together different widgets with HTML and CSS, I’m proud to announce the launch of ChocolateChip-UI 1.0. This is a major update with many refinements, bug fixes and new features, such as titled lists, alphabetical lists, and iPad style popovers. If you like […]

ChocolateChip-UI has been ported to jQuery. This means if your preferred JavaScript library is jQuery, you can now use this version of ChocolateChip-UI for creating mobile apps. It uses the latest version of jQuery for DOM traversing, manipulation and Ajax calls. It also includes jquery.tmpl.js to accommodate your tempting needs. Because ChocolateChip.js was designed to […]

Recreating the iOS 5 Switch Control with HTML5, CSS3 and a Bit of ECMAScript 5 The final result of this post will run in iOS 5, Safari 5.1, as well as the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox and Opera. Previously I had created a version of the switch control in iOS. With the launch of […]

ChocolateChip-UI has been updated with a theme styled after the dark Holo theme of Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. ChocolateChip-UI 2.1 allows you to choose whether you want to target iOS or Android. If you create a standard ChocolateChip-UI app for iOS without any custom style modifications, you can turn it in an Android compatible app […]

So, I’ve been really, really busy this last year. And then something happened. ChocolateChip-UI, and myself, got acquired by Sourcebits http://www.sourcebits.com. With a company behind me, I started preparing a major update with support for iOS 6, Android Jelly Bean and Windows Phone 8. Then something else happened. Apple held their World Wide Developers Conference and […]

As of version 3.0.3, ChocolateChip-UI now supports jQuery 2.0.3. We tried earlier versions of 2.x, but there where performance issues that prevented us from offering it as an option. jQuery 2.0.3 has proven to be a good option for mobile Web apps as far as size and speed. As such, going forward we will be […]