Improved Image Processing with Wapple Canvas

We’ve been busy at Wapple Towers lately – creating a new image processor that make your Canvas powered sites look even better, allowing you to retain your brand that much more impressively! We now take advantage of mobile handsets browser capabilities – if they support transparent PNGs, and you’ve uploaded one, we deliver it. And [...]

Wapple’s Dynamic Activation and Suppression Rules

Ever since Wapple Canvas was created, there have been rules. Rules to check if videos are supported, rules to check for active campaigns, rules to check for specific screen sizes. Of course we have hundreds of others, but something missing from all of them was the ability to have customizable rules to specify your own [...]

Microsoft Tag added to Wapple

If you’ve been using Wapple’s technology for a while, you’ll know that we’ve long had support for 2D barcodes and QR codes.

But we’ve recently integrated with Microsoft to produce another, more visually rich alternative – Microsoft Tag.

New features in Wapple Canvas

We’ve been busy recently and have added a ton of new features into Wapple Canvas. Some are updates to existing functionality, some are completely new. All of them are exciting and greatly improve your mobile browsing experience!

Graphic Wallpaper Chunk for Canvas

We’ve made it even easier in Wapple Canvas to deliver your uploaded graphics as downloadable wallpapers. Upload a source graphic, create a Graphic Wallpaper chunk on your page, and configure it how you want – your users will be able to view and download a perfectly sized wallpaper to their handset. And that’s every handset [...]

Wapple Canvas Video Link Chunk

If you have a video uploaded to any of the likes of YouTube or Vimeo, we’ve written a new chunk for Wapple Canvas that will allow you to show it to the whole mobile world. It’s called the Video Link chunk – login in Canvas and add one to a page to see it in [...]

New formItem option in Canvas and Architect

We do lots of great stuff with mobile forms in Canvas. You’ve got advanced validation rules, you can add all sorts of different form items and get extensive reports on what has been submitted. But one thing we were missing was the ability to have a file upload form item so if you wanted your [...]

O BBC, Where Art Thou?

Right now, I feel like the blind man telling my own future. If the BBC don’t start recognising my Android handset as a mobile browser again, I’ll go elsewhere. I’ve had enough of navigating their full website through my small screen and I want the mobile experience back.

Designing and Developing for Mobile Web

Mobile Internet is a tricky platform to develop for unless you use the right tools and have the lowdown on what works and what doesn’t. As there are so many different devices out there in the worldwide marketplace any developer will meet a number of challenges. This mainly concern varying screen sizes, a number of [...]

Removing Problems with Scrollbars on Mobile Browsers

Scrollbars are a pain on web and they are even more of a pain on mobile. If you’ve ever had to develop a website that does anything imaginative with it’s width then you will have encountered the inclusive / exclusive discrepancy amongst browsers. For example, should your page length exceed the vertical size of a [...]