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Videos in web sites and apps are starting to catch up with images in terms of popularity and they are a constantly growing part of the media strategy for most organizations. This means bigger challenges for developers who need to handle these videos in their web sites and mobile…

StencilJS is a new compiler for composing user interfaces using pure custom components. Stencil enables you to build components using new, cutting-edge technologies, such as TypeScript and JSX, then generates a pure custom component that can be used anywhere supported. This means you can import a Stencil generated…

As mobile developers, when talking about images and videos, one of our main concerns is creating a smooth and amazing experience for our users, no matter what kind of device or network connection they are using. In this article, I’m going to show you how you can easily improve this…

To keep your product relevant in the market, you should be building Progressive Web Apps (PWA). Consider these testimonies on conversion rates, provided by leading companies, such as Twitter, Forbes, AliExpress, Booking.com and others. This article doesn’t go into background, history or principles surrounding PWA. Instead we want…

(Guest post by Sebastien Morel) Introduction At Novactive, we are always excited to use new technologies and/or to improve our favorite technologies with other ones when it makes sense for us, for our clients and for the community. Our business is web technologies, and the most professional content…

The announcement of the iPhone 8, 8 plus and the iPhone X at the iPhone 10th anniversary Apple event on 12th September 2017, came with a massive buzz. The iPhone X (pronounced “iPhone 10”) has a 5.8-inch super retina screen, which stands out amongst other Apples, giving the machine the…

Unoptimized images can be incredible bottlenecks that turn an otherwise well-built web page into a slow loading, bloated one. With the ever-increasing percentage of users on mobile devices, properly sizing and optimizing images to provide a good mobile experience is even more important. When working with content creators: Train the…

Searching for a surefire way to improve conversion rates in your e-commerce store? Then it’s time to enhance the user experience with high quality, immersive visuals without compromising performance.  E-commerce shoppers love visual media — robust product galleries, product videos, high-definition zoom-in functionality — and increasingly rely on it to…

Knowledge is power. And if you allow your users to upload images, you also probably want to better understand what their images contain. Whether a photo is of a building, people, animals, celebrities, or a product, image processing and analysis can assist in further comprehension. The benefits of this knowledge…