Blog Archive

November 2011

Adaptive Images and Drupal 7

Having adaptive images is an great addition to an responsive website. Not only will it reduce page load times, but it will make the site perform better on small devices with limited resources. But wouldn't it be nice if there was an easy way to integrate adaptive images in with your current Drupal site? And if you could pick as many images styles to generate the adapted images as you wanted? And if it was integrated with the Media module so you could insert adaption images using a wysiwyg editor? Read more about Adaptive Images and Drupal 7

jQuery Mobile with Drupal 7

A few months back I did a talk at DrupalCamp Montreal on using jQuery Mobile with Drupal. The message passed along during that talk was essentially, jQuery Mobile and stock Drupal 7 don't work together. It boils down to the version of jQuery that Drupal 7 ships with (1.4.4) is too old and doesn't work with the latest version of jQuery Mobile (which required jQuery 1.6.x or higher).

But that didn't stop our enterprising developers from finding a way to get jQuery Mobile and Drupal to play well together. We decided to tackle the three aspects holding Drupal and jQuery Mobile back from working together:

  1. Drupal Core compatible with jQuery 1.6.x and jQuery UI 1.8.x
  2. jQuery Mobile module to integrate the library
  3. jQuery Mobile compatible theme elements