Our IT office at the Department of State is in the process of transitioning the majority of our mobile users from BlackBerry devices to iPhones and iPads over the next month. In preparation for the upgrade, our customer support team developed a frequently asked questions (FAQ) document that contained several tips and tricks to help […]
Recently, the Public Affairs office at State.gov released the Select State.gov Data API, which exposes several datasets that are published and routinely updated on State.gov. When I heard about the API, I was really excited that the State Department would be publishing portions of the official travel data for the Secretary and began thinking of […]
Last week, I wrote about Drew Crawford’s analysis of the elements affecting the poor performance of mobile web apps. In my post I noted that performance issues for my own mobile web app project were related to a large number of elements inserted into the DOM and the resulting memory footprint rather than pure JavaScript […]
Drew Crawford recently published an extensive piece analyzing the performance of web apps on mobile platforms. It’s really worth the read if you’re considering building a mobile web app as it includes plenty of supporting data that may help to guide future projects. In the article Drew concludes that mobile platforms are far behind the […]
