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The demand for apps is strong, and it's coming from everywhere! This comprehensive guide provides an introduction to many of the skills and best practices you need to build modern web apps. This field guide is designed to help you create great user experiences in your web apps. Whether you're building your first web app, or are just looking for ways to improve existing experiences, there's something here for you!

Mobitest - Free Mobile Web Performance Measurement Tool Mobitest is a free tool that was initially created for us at Blaze.io (an automated web performance optimization solution) to get a deeper understanding of how to improve our customer's mobile web performance.

"The following are some tips for decreasing your web page loading times."

The Web Developer extension adds various web developer tools to a browser. The extension is available for Firefox and Chrome, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux

The focus of this specification is readability and ease of access. Unlike the full HTML specification, this "web developer edition" removes information that only browser vendors need know.

Responsive Web Design Weekly is a free weekly round up focused on everything and anything to do with Responsive Design.

"The float property is a valuable and powerful asset to any web designer/developer working with HTML and CSS. Tragically, it can also cause frustration and confusion if you don't fully understand how it works. Also, in the past, it's been linked to some pretty nasty browser bugs so it's normal to get nervous about using the float property in your CSS rule sets. Let's calm those nerves and ease that frustration."

Mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets usually have a capacitive touch-sensitive screen to capture interactions made with the user's fingers. As the mobile web evolves to enable increasingly sophisticated applications, web developers need a way to handle these events. For example, nearly any fast-paced game requires the player to press multiple buttons at once, which, in the context of a touchscreen, implies multi-touch. Apple introduced their touch events API in iOS 2.0. Android has been catching up to this de-facto standard and closing the gap. Recently a W3C working group has come together to work on this touch events specification. In this article I'll dive into the touch events API provided by iOS and Android devices, explore what sorts of applications you can build, present some best practices, and cover useful techniques that make it easier to develop touch-enabled applications.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in HTML or XML (including various XML languages like SVG or XHTML). CSS is one of the core languages of the open web and has a standardized W3C specification. Developed in levels, CSS1 is now obsolete, CSS2.1 a recommendation and CSS3, now split into smaller modules, is progressing on the standard track. The first early drafts of CSS4 modules are being written.

WURFL has graduated! Powering the mobile web for 10 years.

Our users use the web to get things done. As a consequence, time is of the essence. The choice of which specific tool (sites) they use is heavily influenced by just how quickly that tool accomplishes their goals. Therefore, optimize your websites to load as quickly as possible.

InfoWorld - One of the sly games that smart managers play is attaching their current project to a big, high-profile tar ball rolling down the hill, full of momentum. Now that HTML5 has become white hot after languishing for 10 years of relative disinterest, many ideas that began as cool enhancements for the Web are latching on to the bandwagon. They may be relatively independent projects, but because they involve JavaScript and HTML, they're now part of the HTML5 juggernaut.

The bottom of a page is not the end of a website. An informative, compelling footer is the natural place to lead people to more information within the site rather than wandering aimlessly.

How much time a website takes to load is a very important factor which determines the success of a website to a large extent. If a website takes too much time to load, it is bound to lose a majority of visitors and potential customers. When it comes to search engine parameters, website speed is a crucial factor which determines the search engine ranking.

Mobile Emulators & Simulators: The Ultimate Guide