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Making an iPad HTML5 App & making it really fast About a month ago or so, Amy and I release a little (literally, it’s about 5k) HTML5 iPad App for looking up time zones. I don’t mean select-box wasteland like all other time zone sites (who likes select boxes anyway?!), I mean a nicely polished, touch-enabled UI that works offline, too. Add this to your iPad’s homescreen and it looks and feels exactly like an iPad app. Their process is really interesting too. I didn’t realise that browsers essentially render CSS3 gradients as images. What -webkit-gradient really does is construct an image bitmap, and to the rendering engine it’s exactly the same as if you would supply and externally loaded image (like a PNG file).

Making an iPad HTML5 App & making it really fast

About a month ago or so, Amy and I release a little (literally, it’s about 5k) HTML5 iPad App for looking up time zones. I don’t mean select-box wasteland like all other time zone sites (who likes select boxes anyway?!), I mean a nicely polished, touch-enabled UI that works offline, too.

Add this to your iPad’s homescreen and it looks and feels exactly like an iPad app. Their process is really interesting too. I didn’t realise that browsers essentially render CSS3 gradients as images.

What -webkit-gradient really does is construct an image bitmap, and to the rendering engine it’s exactly the same as if you would supply and externally loaded image (like a PNG file).

  1. oolahru said: Awesome. It’s nice to get only Time Zones/Towns that you need. It would be more usefull by this way. And widget to OS X dashboard.. Just small feedback. :)
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