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This article started with a simple question. How do I get the current viewport scale in a website or web app? This is my solution. Read more.

Hiding the iPhone address bar is a well known JavaScript trick. However, it is annoying when the solution (a page scroll of 1px) is applied when you don't want/need it. This is preventable. Read more.

Many devices like the iPhone return screen width assuming a constant portrait orientation. This article demonstrates a simple approach to querying screen width corrected by device orientation. Read More.

iPhone, iPad and iTouch devices allow you to bookmark a website to the home screen. However, the default page title used for the bookmark can be a bit too long. Read More.

A comprehensive look at the potential design optimisations that apply to high pixel density displays. This is a hot topic right now due to the popularity of iPhone4 and the implications of density-independent pixels with automatic scaling. Read more.

ProtoFluid enables the development and styling of websites and apps across a wide range of Internet enabled devices.

In this article I leverage dual CSS3 Media Queries in order to quickly and easily prototype CSS for web-enabled devices of varying dimensions. Read more.

The original article (available here) presented a simple solution to website code thievery in the form of cross-domain JavaScript ‘fetch-and-execute’.

We now present a smarter, more efficient and generally better version. Read more.

Basic URI processing with JavaScript. A useful collection of URI processing functions neatly encapsulated in a class. Used in many of our upcoming articles. Read more.

We propose a simple solution to website code thievery. The Ajax Kill Switch takes the form of cross-domain JavaScript ‘fetch-and-execute’.

Combined with source code obfuscation, we have an effective insurance policy. Read More.