- Developers Guide - Posted by mclancy 12 weeks 5 days ago
Future of the Mobile Web Whitepaper- We're very happy to publish this paper arising from the The Future of the Mobile Web event held at the Dublin Convention Centre in January 2012. We covered a lot of ground and the paper is a serious attempt to capture all the topics covered from HTML5 to responsive design to device detection and many others. We found it to be a very worthwhile process to listen, validate our ideas and learn from others in the process of writing it. We hope it is useful to a wider readership also.
- Mobile Design - Posted by mclancy 15 weeks 4 days 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 Ronan_Mandel 3 years 3 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 3 years 4 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.
- Usability - Posted by casaise 3 years 24 weeks ago
Character Encoding Issues and the Mobile Web- Character encoding, the binary representation underlying every symbol in documents delivered to mobile devices, is often treated as an afterthought in mobile Web development. Many developers simply rely upon ISO-8859-1; not a bad choice, as this encoding efficiently supports all important Western European languages, has long been available in the mobile and fixed Internet, is widespread among low-end phones, and is the default encoding in the HTTP standard.
- Best Practices - Posted by ruadhan 3 years 24 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.
- Domains - Posted by James Pearce 3 years 33 weeks ago
A Very Modern Mobile Switching Algorithm - Part I- An important question that most web developers ask when developing their first mobile web site is "how do I distinguish between mobile users and desktop users?". Although this seems like a simple enough question at first, of course there's more to it than meets the eye. In fact, what do we even mean by 'distinguish'? How we distinguish their requirements? Their desires? The services they expect? The browsers they happen to be using?
- Best Practices - Posted by Cyril 4 years 2 hours ago
The worst practices of the mobile web, part II- A few months ago, I blogged about the worst mistakes I saw on mobile sites. Since this time I have visited and analysed plenty more mobile sites (so that my search crawler can process them better), and I have a few more offenders whose practices can make mobile browsing a nightmare...
- Browsers - Posted by ruadhan 4 years 39 weeks ago
Getting started with Mobile AJAX- Mobile AJAX is a term that's hot right now in the industry - we are seeing it mentioned more and more every day. This article will give an overview AJAX from a mobile web point of view. But before we talk about mobile AJAX in particular, we should say a little about what AJAX means.
