- Mobile Design - Posted by mclancy 1 week 20 hours ago
Future of the Mobile Web- Last week we hosted an event loftily entitled "The Future of the Mobile Web" at the Dublin Convention Centre.
- Browsers - Posted by weimenglee 2 years 22 weeks ago
Build Web Apps for iPhone using Dashcode- So far, much mobile developer attention has been fixated on the iPhone SDK released by Apple to build native iPhone applications. This is understandable, since with the SDK you can write native iPhone apps that take full advantage of the capabilities provided by the device, such as accessing the accelerometer, the camera, as well as obtain geographical locations using Core Location.
- Best Practices - Posted by Ronan_Mandel 2 years 33 weeks ago
Are Widgets ready for me?- OK, so getting back to the widget reality here. I'd like to take a look at what the platforms are, what your options are and if it's really even worth it to go there. I know that last time I got a bit distracted with the whole 'sprite' thing, but I promise to stay on track here.
- Best Practices - Posted by Ronan_Mandel 2 years 38 weeks ago
- Widget Investigation leads to a 'Worst Practice' Discovery
- Nokia just wrapped up their Developer Conference in Monaco last week. Sadly, I didn't have the budget to go. Maybe you were lucky and did (or maybe you live there, lucky you!). Anyhow, one of the technologies that they're pushing these days is their WRT (Web Run Time) or Widgets for the lay person out there. This whole mobile widget thing is nothing new, but what does appear to be new is that they're gathering a steam this time.
- dotMobi Compliance - Posted by ruadhan 2 years 39 weeks ago
Mobile Web Benchmarks: What can you do?- Yesterday, Gomez and dotMobi published a second set of mobile Web benchmarks. The metrics are taken across three key industries: banking, airlines, and search, each of which represents an exciting and important slice of the mobile Web. I don't want to analyse the results here (the mobile Web is getting slower apparently!) - instead, I'll take a brief look at what these benchmarks might mean for you as a developer.
- Browsers - Posted by Ronan_Mandel 2 years 41 weeks ago
- Accesskeys: Thinking about them in a QWERTY world
- Interestingly enough, in this time of excitement and interest in building apps for mobile phones, Google did a refresh on their web apps for iPhone and Android. Go figure, seems like the mobile web isn't dead even on high end, high power devices. Even more, it would appear to make sense to build mobile specific web interfaces even for fully functional WebKit browser based devices. Imagine that!
- Best Practices - Posted by Ronan_Mandel 2 years 42 weeks ago
- Handset Market Share Data (why it matters)
- With Mobile World Congress and CTIA now behind us, it's difficult to not get hot bothered and drooly about what new handsets are going to be on the market. Don't get me wrong, hot, new, fully functional and super sexy are all good things to have in a handset, especially in these otherwise gloomy times. However, as a developer it's important to remember to not get too carried away in the excitement, and here's why. The handset sales figures for November and December in the US were recently released, and a look at them reveals something telling for how one might (or might not) target content development.
- Best Practices - Posted by ruadhan 3 years 10 weeks ago
- The Best and Worst of the Mobile Web
- Our sister-site mobiThinking.com has just published an eBook on "The Best and Worst of the Mobile Web". In it there are examples of winners and sinners, those who do it right, and those not quite right, and why! So now might be a good time to fire up your mobile browser and let us know if you agree.
- Best Practices - Posted by Ronan_Mandel 3 years 14 weeks ago
- It's Open if We Tell You It Is
- I'd like to come back to a topic that I touched on a few months ago: open. In case you weren't paying attention to CTIA in San Francisco last month (and I won't fault you if you weren't), you may have missed the clarification that the major operators in the States provided to the definition of an 'open' network. Sitting together on a stage the bigwigs from Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile each found ways to describe why an 'open' network is not really what the end user wants. Given some of what was said, it's a wonder that any of us are ever able to get apps out there at all.
- Browsers - Posted by James Pearce 3 years 14 weeks ago
Introducing the new DeviceAtlas Data Explorer- We teased you about this a few months ago and we've now finally finished! DeviceAtlas v2.1 offers analytics tools to explore the mobile device information in its database. In the video below, James and Andrea give you a teaser of how it works, and talk through some of the cool new tricks. We're going live next Monday, and we'll announce here when it's available. UPDATE: we've gone live.
