- Device Database - Posted by ronan 25 weeks 5 hours ago
A minimal mobile-aware web app with Python & cloud-based device detection- In this article we'll look at a how to make a minimal device-aware web application. The point of this article is not to demonstrate a useful application but rather to show just how little code is required to make an app that is fully device aware, and that can change its presentation entirely depending on the nature of the device accessing it.
- Device Database - Posted by ronan 25 weeks 5 days 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.
- Browsers - Posted by mokil 30 weeks 5 days ago
Testing Mobile Web Sites Using Firefox- Before you ever begin testing your mobile site to determine how it looks on handsets, you should make sure the functionality of the site is working as you expect. This is not always straightforward, as you want to approximate the mobile environment as closely as possible. Fortunately, Mozilla Firefox supports some great extensions that can make testing your mobile sites a piece of cake. This article explains how to set Firefox up to act as a first pass test environment for your site.
- Device Database - Posted by ruadhan 35 weeks 5 days ago
Device Detection in the Cloud: DeviceAtlas Personal- After a brief mention of DeviceAtlas Personal in our June newsletter, we're now following up with a full tutorial on how to use the preview release of the service. So what is DA Personal?
- Browsers - Posted by atrasatti 36 weeks 6 days 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).
- Authoring - Posted by H2f 37 weeks 6 days ago
Mobile Web App Development with ASP.NET and HAWHAW- Development of mobile applications is often highly dependent on the target platform. If plain old XHTML markup is written from scratch then it is rather easy to switch between platform and technologies. But if the development process has been accelerated and made comfortable by the use of tools and middleware, it soon becomes difficult or impossible to switch environments e.g. from a LAMP environment to ASP.NET or vice versa.
- Browsers - Posted by jonarne 1 year 1 week ago
Kind of a "sunshine transcoder story"- I guess many of you have been following discussions on various attempts by network operators to transcode desktop web sites and squeeze them on to a mobile device, without respecting the intentions of content owners. The case I'll be talking about is the TeliaSonera case, and their "SurfOpen" service. First time around, the launch caused an uprising among the content owners forcing TeliaSonera to go offline with SurfOpen. Now SurfOpen is launched again with a more reasonable approach.
- Content Adaptation - Posted by ronan 1 year 9 weeks ago
Build a Mobile and Desktop-Friendly Application in Django in 15 Minutes- This article quickly walks you through the process of setting up an absolutely minimal mobile- and desktop-friendly web application using the Django framework. This particular framework works very well with mobile thanks to the way its templates are structured and makes for a good choice for new web-based applications.
- Hosting - Posted by James Pearce 1 year 13 weeks ago
A Very Modern Mobile Switching Algorithm - Part II- This article follows on from last month's Part I, where we discussed some of the principles of handling mobile users and switching their experiences. If you haven't read it yet please do so before we dive into some of the technical ideas and implementation details.
- Design Patterns - Posted by jonarne 1 year 14 weeks ago
- One web 2.0 - social edition
- I bet I am not the only one wondering what Nokia was going to announce yesterday... In addition to the N97, Nokia Messaging was the big news. Put short, Nokia Messaging is enabling a bunch of IM-like services on the phone. In my mind this is an important change in the traditional mind pattern device manufacturers, and MNOs, have had until the iPhone.
