- mCommerce - Posted by ronan 3 years 13 weeks ago
Celebrity news and bikini contests on dev.mobi- What has happened? Have we sold out? Are we making a cheap buck out of our developer forum?Thankfully not. This is all part of an altruistic experiment in mobile advertising. Those of you who visited the mobile version of mobiForge may have noticed that mobile ads started popping up on the site today.
- Best Practices - Posted by ronan 3 years 26 weeks ago
- Web Developer's Guide released
- I am proud to announce we recently posted the dotMobi Mobile Web Developer's Guide on mobiForge. This is quite a comprehensive guide to mobile web developement. It layers on the advice from the W3C's Mobile Web Initiative Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 document, but takes it further.
- Browsers - Posted by ronan 3 years 41 weeks ago
- Mobile browser advances do not remove the the need for mobile-friendly sites
- The argument goes as follows: phones are becoming more capable all the time and already some high end phones can handle existing desktop-focused sites without a problem. So why is a mobile-friendly site necessary?
- Network - Posted by ronan 4 years 3 days ago
- Mobile data charges: stifling growth of mobile internet?
- I believe that the mobile internet charges are severly restricting the growth of the mobile internet. I base this claim on empirical evidence from the behaviours of people I know. Almost without exception, whenever I mention the idea of browsing on a mobile phone to people, or whenever they see me doing it, they say the same thing: "Oh, that's really expensive, isn't it?" There are people I know who religiously avoid touching the Live! or iMode button on their phones, despite their prominant placement on the handset, based on the fear of a large bill. One person I know has had purchased a new iMode phone and in 2 months had conciously and deliberately avoided pressing the "i" button, despite the fact that this is the key selling point of the phone and associated service.
