- Design Patterns - Posted by ronan 5 weeks 6 days ago
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
- - Posted by ronan 18 weeks 6 days ago
- Server-side device detection used by 82% of Alexa top 100 sites
- About 82% of the Alexa 100 top sites use some form of server-side device detection to serve content on their main website entry point. As you descend from the top 10 to the top 25 and top 100 sites the percentage of sites using server-side detection falls from 100% to 96% to 82%. This is an interesting fact given the all of the recent discussion in the blogosphere of responsive design using client-side techniques such as media queries.
- Device Database - Posted by ronan 35 weeks 5 days ago
- 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.
- Apps - Posted by ronan 1 year 32 weeks ago
- Mobile Apps vs. Mobile Web
- With all of the buzz around apps & app stores it would be easy to assume that mobile apps have unstoppable momentum and that the mobile web is taking a back seat. It's worth taking a step back to see how this is all going to pan out. Will mobile apps dominate completely and overwhelm the mobile web or does the mobile web still stand a chance?
- Showcase sites - Posted by ronan 1 year 34 weeks ago
- The breadth and diversity of the mobile web
- For a mass medium to really get traction and achieve critical mass it is important that creating content is as easy as consuming it—the growth of the medium tracks the availability of the content creation tools. In the early days of the web hackers used home-grown web servers to serve content and a copy of Vi to author it. It wasn't long before Apache and other web servers eased the job of serving the content but the creation of good web content remained the preserve of experts.
- Best Practices - Posted by ronan 1 year 47 weeks ago
- Measuring the Effects of Operator Transcoders
- The issue of mobile-operator transcoders on the mobile web has been hugely controversial. For many iPhone and Android phone owners the negative effects of the transcoders are no longer visible and the issue has dropped off the radar, but they remain a serious problem for those using lower-end devices.
- Device Database - Posted by ronan 2 years 35 weeks 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.
- Design Patterns - Posted by ronan 3 years 23 weeks ago
- Don't forget the supine surfer
- It's easy to be waylaid by the word "mobile" in "mobile web", to assume that the defining characteristic of mobile web surfer is the fact that they are out and about. Not always so! Sometimes, mobile = not at PC. Remember that "mobile web" often means the "consumed-on-mobile-device web" rather than the "out-and-about web".
- - Posted by ronan 3 years 23 weeks ago
- Transcoding: what are the Viagra, Cialis and "Dear Winner" of HTML tag soup?
- Over the last 6 months or so part of the tech team in dotMobi has been working on Instant Mobilizer, a site mobilizer service to help small businesses dip their toes in the waters of the mobile web. One of the big problems with content transcoding is deciding when it should be applied: if there is little hope of it working well another alternative should be offered.
- Content Adaptation - Posted by ronan 3 years 51 weeks ago
- Creating mobile web sites using Google App Engine
- Just a quick note to say that we've just published an article on building mobile web applications with Google App Engine, complete with advanced device detection. Check it out on mobiForge. Advanced device detection, meet infinite scalability!
