Software Developers

… is growing on me… what’s happening to me?!
Android app will be coming soon for www.bobswinereviews.com
Will start touting my services over here too: www.androiddeveloper.co.nz

Since I was joking about mobile developers a while ago I was asked to create a mobile app. Of course, coming from a web-perspective (the app was for a website) I naturally chose the android webview jquery mobile approach. Am I satisfied? Kind of. While it was finda fun (and sickening) to have a bit of Java coming back to after so many years, it reminded me why I chose to do web software development. So much more flexible. Hmmmmmm

I keep forgetting this rules I made for myself, so here they are. Target platforms:
gmail, hotmail, yahoo, outlook 2007, outlook express, iphone mail, android gmail

• Basically, dont use a stylesheet – do inline styles on divs and spans (trust me – this will reduce your cross-browser issues)
• Dont use h1, h2, p, etc – just use div and span (other tags have their own styles in yahoo etc)
• Only use margins, don’t use padding
• Use margins, but only like this: margin-right, margin-bottom, margin-left
• So, you need top margin?: use a general padder like this:

  <div style="margin-bottom: 16px;">
  <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td></td></tr></table>
  </div>
  

• Don’t use colour shortcuts like this: #efe. Write it fully, eg: #eeffee
• Need a solid line?

  <div style="border-top: 1px solid black; font-size: 0px;">&nbsp;</div>
  

  If you have set the line height in a parent div you might want to add

  line-height: 0px

  to the above solid line div. Althought, I’ve found it’s best to avoid line-height altogether (outlook)

• Fine-print not fine enough in iPhone mail? (ok you’re allowed to use stylesheet now

  <style type="text/css">
  div, span { -webkit-text-size-adjust:none; }
  </style>
  

If you follow these strict rules you shouldn’t be compaining about Outlook 2007 (lowest common denominator)

… are popping up everywhere. Everyone wants to make an iphone/ipad/android app these days. If I had a dollar for every request I had through my web sites saying “Can I please have all your data because I want to make an iphone app?”… we’ll, I’d have about $23.

I tend to get a sore back from sitting on my ass all day.

And put on too much weight.

The answer to that question is coming soon!