- Device Database - Posted by ronan 51 weeks 21 hours ago
The Beauty of Mobile Device Data- Recently at dotMobi we have been investigating how to make our DeviceAtlas device detection even better, while at the same time trying to keep the size of the distributable database as compact as possible. As some of you may know, DeviceAtlas uses a tree of data stored in a very compact JSON file to distribute our device data knowledge. The actual format of this JSON file is a Patricia tree organised around the user-agent strings of the devices that we have data about.
- Best Practices - Posted by ruadhan 1 year 1 week ago
Post Markup Directly to mobiReady.com- If you missed our newsletter yesterday you are probably not aware of a small announcement we made in it. We've pushed out a few updates to mobiReady.com, our mobile-readiness page testing tool. The most significant change is that you can now post markup directly to the service, instead of posting a URL for the service to visit and test.
- Community - Posted by Ronan_Mandel 1 year 3 weeks ago
Verizon Wireless opens up to the mobile developer community (for real)!- Late last month, Verizon Wireless held an open developer conference down here in San Jose. The conference was notable, important, and relevant to you for a number of reasons.
- Best Practices - Posted by Ronan_Mandel 1 year 8 weeks ago
- Mobile Web 2.0 "Dramatic Developments" from AT&T Really not all that dramatic....
- Well, I'm sad to report that the folks over/up/down at AT&T wireless appear to not quite have their act together when it comes to what is the 'next big thing' in wireless. I had really been hoping/anticipating that the webinar they hosted on June 30 entitled "Dramatic Developments in Mobile Web Technology" was going to provide something concrete and actionable for you (and I), alas, that was not to be the case.
- Widgets - Posted by Ronan_Mandel 1 year 9 weeks ago
- Convergence still 'coming soon' for mobile web platforms
- So honestly, when I went into writing the last couple of postings about widget platforms I did not know about the webinars that had been scheduled by the folks at FierceWireless or AT&T about browsing platforms, but it's comforting to know that I'm not the only one trying to get my head around exactly what is and what isn't possible (and where things are headed) in the browser container and beyond.
- Browsers - Posted by atrasatti 1 year 10 weeks ago
User-Agent Switcher for Safari 4- The User Agent Switcher plug-in for Firefox has been a GREAT add-on and we all love it. 1 year and 27 weeks ago Ronan wrote a really simple, but useful configuration file for it that is available here on mobiForge (if you use Firefox it's a MUST: User Agent Switcher config file).
- Best Practices - Posted by Ronan_Mandel 1 year 11 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.
- Device Database - Posted by daniel.hunt 1 year 13 weeks ago
DeviceAtlas 2.4.1 Released- Late yesterday evening, some of you may have noticed that DeviceAtlas went offline for a couple of hours - now that it's back on its feet again I can tell you that DeviceAtlas 2.4.1 has now been released! 2.4.1 is mainly a maintainence release, but we've managed to squeeze in a few exciting little nuggets that we're sure you're going to love. New Properties markup.wml1: This will let you know the capability of devices to display content in WML
- Browsers - Posted by jonarne 1 year 13 weeks ago
Location, Location, Location- Location based services (LBS) has been a buzz word and a hype since birth of mobile services. I'm not saying that it is a failure!
- Browsers - Posted by ruadhan 1 year 15 weeks ago
- Fennec Delivers!
- We've all been eagerly anticipating the entry of the Fennec (Firefox Mobile to the uninitiated) into the mobile browser space. A couple of days ago we were given our first taste of the future with Fennec when a new alpha version was released for Windows Mobile devices. So how does it stand up? Well, initial testing seems to indicate that Fennec will certainly be a contender. The Fennec team have packed in support for a wide array of technologies.
