A few months ago we started discussions with the guys over at happyfrog.ca about building them a customized widget that people could place on their own blogs. We’re happy to announce that the widget just finished beta testing last week, and officially went live this morning.

If you’re interested in knowing more about it, check out the happyfrog.ca widget page. We had a lot of fun making it, and are looking forward to doing additional widgets for other organizations in the future.

Ever seen this Steve Jobs video? That’s how we feel right now, Boom!

We’ve added an often-requested feature, kinda.

Some have complained that the search & menu drop downs don’t work, along with the post-excerpt drop down functions, ajax, etc. Those effects are all done using Prototype-based javascript. On some installations, users may have other plugins which are loading similar scripts, and because WPtouch doesn’t interfere with the loading of those plugins, the scripts get loaded with WPtouch and effectively disable its effects and advanced features.

So we decided the best way around that was to create a fucntion which would change the way that javascript effects work with WPtouch, and bypass the loading of Prototype altogether. This has multiple advantages (more…)

While we were working on WPtouch it quickly became clear that we would have to start considering all the ways we could accomplish a full-featured theme in the lowest file size possible, something that I’m sure many developers have faced when building web-based applications for Apple’s devices. While at times frustrating and challenging, the knowledge we gained from working within the limitations of the iPhone/iPod touch added optimization skills into our work coffers- some of which we already employ now in our client developent. In short, speed and size consideration for Apple devices has made our regular web projects even more refined and incredibly fast. (more…)