The jQuery hoverIntent plugin

While working on the Web UI for Taskeedo, we noticed an inconsistent behaviour with triggering of animations in response to hover events. The problem was that if the mouse cursor went past the target area multiple times at a fast speed, the hover event would get triggered multiple times in succession and queue up, giving the effect that the resulting animation stays stuck — while in actuality, the animation would be appearing and disappearing too quickly for the human eye to observe. The result was a bad UI experience.

I looked around and found some half-baked solutions to the problem that involved triggering the event only when the cursor moved slowly over the target area. But, those didn’t feel satisfying. It was then when I bumped into the jQuery hoverIntent plugin. It not only solves the problem in question eloquently, but also provides a great deal of flexibility through providing configuration settings. It has definitely solved the problem for us.

Don’t you just love jQuery?

Tags: jquery, jquery hoverIntent, taskeedo, web ui

A Rounded Update!

Things have certainly been hectic at Rounded Labs for the past few months hence the lack of blog posts (even though we’d promised we would blog more, sorry).  So I have decided to take some time and give you an update on whats been going on with the team here, what we’ve been working on and whats coming soon.

Toggle Widgets for Android

As many of you know we released a suite of very useful Widgets for the Android platform and the response has been been far more popular than we’d have expected with over 133,000 downloads so far and counting. We do get a lot of you email in to say how much you love them and we certainly enjoy receiving and replying to every single one of you. An excellent morale booster for the team

Mobank iPhone Application

We’ve been working with Dominic and the guys from Mobank for over a year now to develop and perfect their mobile application. It was recently released onto the iPhone App Store and very quickly made its way to the Number 1 spot in the Finance section beating out Paypal and Bloomberg. We’re feeling pretty pleased about that

“MoBank is a brand new mobile banking and payment service that works with your existing bank account. By simply registering a debit or credit card with MoBank you can now book, pay and shop for things or manage your money securely from your iPhone, iPod touch or mobile, any time, any place all within a few clicks.“
The Application incorporates an awesome UI and has been developed with an amazingly sleek Read more…

Tags: android widgets, cognition, mobank, taskeedo, update