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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 […]

So, after a lot of thought, we decided to push a lot of the features of TruckJS to ChocolateChip-UI. Why? Because of the brand. So many people were already using ChocolateChip-UI and it’s been out for four years. To learn more about the new version, visit the website at ChocolateChip-UI.Github.io At the same time, we didn’t […]

ChocolateChip-UI provides a convenient grid system based on CSS flexbox. This means your grid columns use flex to determine their widths. This gives you responsive layouts. Because the grids use flexbox, there are no floats involved, and no need to clear floats, etc. Also all columns are automatically equal height in the same grid. To make […]

Mobile App Development with JavaScript JavaScript Fatigue I’m the author of ChocolateChip-UI, a framework for building hybrid mobile web apps. Over the years I’ve written libraries for DOM manipulation and animation. I write code every day, for hours. I’m chained to my NPM/Node build tools. Heck, I write my own build scripts. I’ve done Grunt, […]