- Best Practices - Posted by Veruska Anconitano on 17 Apr 2013
The most common mistakes in smartphone sites according to Google- Google are paying ever more attention to the mobile market and so, developers pay attention when the Big G is making recommendations. Google recently published a document on the main mistakes people make when working on mobile websites for smartphones. If you look through the list you can definitely recognize a cornerstone of Google's approach: focus on the end user. Or put another way, "adopt the approach you want but be aware of your audience".
- Best Practices - Posted by ronan on 05 Apr 2013
Global reach and dynamic page weight – is there a correlation?- Many reports on web page sizes issued in recent years point to the same conclusion: the web has a weight problem. The web seems to be gaining weight each year despite the fact that study after study has shown a strongly negative reaction from users to heavy web pages and resulting loading times.
- Browsers - Posted by Veruska Anconitano on 04 Apr 2013
- Why HTML5 still presents some problems on mobile
- One of the debates of 2013 centres on which approach you should adopt to deliver a great user experience, while keeping costs at an acceptable level. This question often gets parsed as “HTML5 or native applications?” or “HTML or mobile site builders” or even something else entirely. But with all the vaunted promise of HTML5, just what does that ‘5’ mean when it comes to real world deployments?
- Best Practices - Posted by Veruska Anconitano on 21 Mar 2013
- Why Responsive Web Design is not always the best option for a mobile SEO strategy
- There are a lot of misconceptions about what Google is saying about mobile SEO. First and foremost, Google doesn't mandate the use of Responsive Web Design (RWD) as best practice for SEO. Google expressly says "Google does not favor any particular URL format as long as they are all accessible to both Googlebot and Googlebot-Mobile” the bots Google uses to crawl desktop and Smartphone specific content. And it’s worth noting here that Google is crawling desktop and mobile content separately.
- Publishing - Posted by ronan on 01 Nov 2012
- Introducing Prism, a tool for testing device adaptation
- Due to the multifarious nature of the mobile web, developers tend to spend a lot of time testing their work. If your site is designed to adapt to multiple different devices this effort is multiplied because you need to ensure that your detection is working correctly across multiple devices and that your response is appropriate in each case.
- Design Patterns - Posted by ronan on 11 Apr 2012
- Anatomy of a mobile web experience: facebook.com
- This is the second article in a series about how the major internet brands deliver their mobile web experience. The previous article is available here: Anatomy of a mobile web experience: google.com
- Mobile Design - Posted by mclancy on 23 Feb 2012
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 on 03 Feb 2012
- Future of the Mobile Web
- Last week we hosted an event loftily entitled "The Future of the Mobile Web" at the Dublin Convention Centre.
- Device Database - Posted by ronan on 15 Sep 2011
- The best of breakingdevelopment conference
- As many of you know, the breakingdevelopment conference took place in Nashville, Tennessee over the last few days. It appears to have been a really seminal conference with 13 leading mobile web developers speaking. Others have already put together summaries of the conference but I thought I'd link to what I thought were the most interest presentations.
- Device Database - Posted by daniel.hunt on 16 Oct 2010
DeviceAtlas & jQueryMobile- The first Alpha release of jQueryMobile was announced today, to great fanfare, and the mobile web world is already on fire with the thoughts of what this will mean to them. A little bit of background... Originally developed by John Resig, jQueryMobile's big brother "jQuery" is now in use by pretty much anyone who implements advanced JavaScript capabilities on their site.
