• Browsers - Posted by ruadhan on 16 May 2013
• HTML5 for the Mobile Web - Part I: Introduction
• There has been much interest lately around HTML5 and its readiness for production environments and whether HTML5 apps should be used over native apps. This has been due, in large part, to the high-profile defections of tech behemoths such as Facebook and LinkedIn away from HTML5 to native apps for their core mobile services.

• Best Practices - Posted by Editor on 25 Apr 2013
• Usability on the mobile Web: best practices and guidelines for designers and developers
• In this era of technology, we are continuously interacting with things so it is vital that these interactions form positive experiences for us. This is true not only for objects or products we can physically touch, but equally so for intangibles such as websites.

• 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.

• Best Practices - Posted by ronan on 12 Mar 2013
• Performance is money, part 1: the end-user's wallet
• Most web developers are familiar with the maxim that light is good: the idea that page performance matters to the end user experience is a truism at this point, backed up by a tremendous amount of real-world evidence, summarised quite nicely at websiteoptimization.com.

• Best Practices - Posted by AndreasGal_Mozilla on 19 Feb 2013
• An introduction to Firefox OS for mobile developers: Q&A with Andreas Gal, Mozilla
• With the first device manufacturers expected to launch Firefox OS devices at Mobile World Congress this month and with major network operators inline to release them to consumers in early 2013, Mozilla’s new operating system (OS) is starting to make waves. Firefox OS is open-source, Linux-based and Web-friendly. mobiForge gets the low-down from Mozilla’s vice president of mobile engineering, Andreas Gal. Q1. What is Firefox OS?

• Browsers - Posted by SantthoshSelvadurai on 10 Jan 2013
• HTML5 for mobile developers
• Why HTML5 and why now? When it comes to touch-screen mobile devices, native applications have led the way in terms of performance, speed and tighter integration to specific platforms. Unbound by the need to conform to standards, native apps could rapidly take advantage of the latest hardware and operating system innovations, while Web technologies always had to wait for the international community to agree and implement standards first. But with the HTML5 specification coming to fruition, browser-based mobile apps are rapidly catching up with the natives.

• Apps - Posted by weimenglee on 19 Dec 2012
• Consuming JSON services in Android apps
• Unless you are writing a Hello World Android application, chances are your application would need to connect to the outside world to fetch some data, such as live currency exchange rates, weather information, records from databases, etc. One of the easiest ways for your application to connect to the outside world is to use web services. For the past few years, XML web services have dominated the arena for web services, as XML was touted as the ubiquitous medium for data exchange. However, using XML as the medium for your data payload suffers from the following problems: