XML encoding (utf-8, ascii)

XML is a markup language similar to HTML. It was designed to transport data. Once data has been enoded, it can be easily read by many different systems. As a result, it is widely used in web services to transfer data. Recently, I was working on a web service which required us to parse the […]

Disable zooming on the iPhone’s browser

The iPhone has many cool features that help to increase ease of use and productivity. One such feature is ‘pinch and zoom’. It allows the user to quickly zoom in or out of the desired portion of a web page. Another interesting feature is the auto zooming of input fields in Safari. When the user […]