Mobile Web Design: Use HTML5 to trigger the appropriate keyboard for form inputs

Both iOs (iPhone / iPod / iPad) and Android devices offer specialized keyboards for entering different types of text input. Triggering the most appropriate keyboard for the type of input you…

Zoosk Hack Day, July 2012

On July 26–27, our Product and Engineering teams will be conducting a Hack Day. Similar to the event we held in September 2011, this will be a period of time for members of our product development organization to explore their own ideas to improve Zoosk. Out of this, we hope to get…

Zoosk R&D — A Retrospective

Earlier this year, Zoosk decided to try something a little different with our hiring and onboarding process.

Congratulations Hack Day Winners!

We had a phenomenal Hack Day event, with 40 participants contributing 25 different ideas. It took over 2 hours for us to present and demo everyone’s idea, even with a strict 5 minute time limit. All the ideas were top-notch and you could tell that the teams really…

Smart wrapping: vs zero-width space

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One of my French colleagues came to me with a wrapping issue — “Montrez-vous” was breaking at the hyphen in Chrome, but not in Firefox. The CSS…