Menacing Cloud

Welcome to the online journal for Optic Swerve. The aim here is to document anything novel and/or useful that is stumbled upon in the course of developing our web applications.

Thanks for taking the time to visit, we hope you enjoy the articles.

Optimising for High Pixel Density Displays

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.

Published 2nd July 2010 by Edward on behalf of Optic Swerve.

CSS3 Media Query Prototyping with ProtoFluid

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

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

Published 29th April 2010 by Edward on behalf of Optic Swerve.

Ajax Kill Switch, Version 2!

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.

Published 15th February 2010. Edited 29th April 2010 by Edward on behalf of Optic Swerve.

URI Processing with JavaScript

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

Ajax Kill Switch

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

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