The user interface, or UI, is how a user interacts with an application. The application doesn’t matter if it’s a computer application, a mobile phone app, or even your microwave oven. The study of how people interact with computes/apps/etc is called Human Computer Interaction, or HCI. In his book on interface design, Theo Mandel [Man97]…
Buttons and Movie Clips can both be used to create interaction within a Flash Movie. Both have their positives and their negatives. Many people like to use a button because it can display itself in different states (normal, over, and down), without any coding at all. Creating a Button To create a button, insert a…
You can build a normal webpage and put it into a jQuery Mobile site. It works, however, it doesn’t give you all the effects of a regular jQuery Mobile Look and Feel. To add that mobile feel, you will want to add some classes to an existing website – to give the full enhancement, and…
Couple of interesting thoughts on mobile forms in jQuery Mobile. First, the concept of creating a mobile form is similar to creating a form for a desktop user. This means you will create a form with the standard action, and using GET/POST as you normally would. This also includes wanting to add labels with the…
Tables are part of the HTML specification, so they are supported in mobile devices. However, working with the space, makes for some interest viewing. Most of the time, you first have very tall cells as the browser tries to fit all of the columns. Then you end up having to scroll your table left and…
jQuery Mobile provides a manner to navigate and style a navigation link at the same time. It uses the data-role=”navbar” to accomplish this task. The navbar can handle up to five navigation links. Icons can be set optionally as well. If you have more than five links, it will split the navbar into two columns,…
jQuery Mobile is “interesting” in that you can have one or more pages on a single physical page. This has some advantages as it can make it so you don’t have to download a bunch of different files. Additionally, this will make it so you don’t have to have the user constantly check to download…
jQuery Mobile comes with a default theme that you can use. However, it isn’t really a single theme, there are actually several (sub) themes, called swatches, that are inserted into the theme. These swatches are specified by a single letter. This means you can call for a different theme, within your website, for a part…
