Working fork of iScroll 4 with extended acceleration

The problem that I had introduced in my iScroll 4 code just needed a simple fix. This was the code I had in my local file. speed = m.abs(dist) / time + (addVelocity ? velocity : 0) Speed should always result in a positive number, when velocity was negative then obviously the end result could be negative. In addition the effects were quite strange since sometimes multiple touchmoves would result in the speed being lower […] Read more »

iScroll 4 first fix for acceleration on multiple touchmoves

Chicago Temple Building 50 by orijinal, on Flickr

iScroll 4 is a great library for adding scrolling to mobile Html5 applications. Unfortunately I found that there is something missing in how the scroller works compared to native scrolling. After comparing how one of my HTML5 mobile applications scrolls compared to an equivalent native app I found one major difference that changes the feel of the iScroll scroller – multiple consecutive scrolls on the native app speeds up the scrolling. With iScroll 4 multiple […] Read more »

Break-down of javascript mobile frameworks for phonegap development

I am experimenting with PhoneGap for a couple of projects that I am currently working on. PhoneGap is a native mobile app packager which basically converts a html5/js based site into an app that will run on mobile phones and can be distributed via app store/market. Since PhoneGap merely leverages existing support for html5 and javscript in the mobile phone you have pretty much the same issues as when developing a regular mobile enabled web […] Read more »