AJAX

Location, Location, Location

jonarne — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:19:27 +0000

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!

AT&T Gateway address updates

Ronan_Mandel — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:05:04 +0000

Well our friends at AT&T are up to changes in the network again. Happily they were kind enough to send out a message with a heads up about new network addresses that are coming from devices on their network.

Developing Location Based Services: Introducing the Location API for J2ME

nicogoeminne — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:10:02 +0000

Many mobile phones today support the Location API for J2ME under JSR-179. Using the location API, you can easily develop useful location based mobile Java applications. In this article, we demonstrate how to develop and test a mobile location based client server application using JSR-179, servlets and Google Maps.

WebKit by any other name… or How I found a use for JavaScript

Ronan_Mandel — Wed, 21 May 2008 10:39:26 +0000

I’ve been doing a great deal of thinking lately about JavaScript/ECMAScript and the mobile web. What I’ve been struggling with is the need or value for it when it comes to sites which are organically created for mobile. Sure there’s a need to support JavaScript as fully as possible for providing a ‘full web’ experience and managing existing content, but when it comes to designing for the mobile context, is there really value for it?

Mobile Web Design - Beyond Simple XHTML Pages III

admin — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:47:17 +0000

In recent years, widgets have been widely popularized due to the success of Yahoo! Widgets (http://widgets.yahoo.com) and Mac OS X Dashboard (http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/dashboard). Widget, a term that traditionally refers to operating system GUI components such as dialog boxes or pop-up windows, is also used to describe small, lightweight applications that run within a local client. These “micro” applications are very compact in both physical size and file size and usually perform only one or two simple functions.

Mobile Web Design

admin — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:04:15 +0000

A special treat for mobiForge users. We have the pleasure of bringing you a number of excerpts from Cameron Moll's recently published book Mobile Web Design.

Mobile Web Design is aimed at anyone "in a position to develop for, manage, or give advice regarding your organization’s foray into—or extended development of—a web strategy for mobile devices".

The book covers a variety of topics related to mobile web design, starting with some background and the current state-of-the-art, and stresses the importance of context when developing for mobile.

Mobile AJAX ?

jonarne — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:29:42 +0000

Mostly for my own education I have been playing around with mobile ajax, ajah, ahah or what ever you like to call it. Many great articles are written about the topic and some frameworks are even emerging. But how, where, when to use it, what to do, what to don't ? I'll share what I have learned playing around with mobile Ajax wondering about just that.

Getting started with Mobile AJAX

ruadhan — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:04:19 +0000

Mobile AJAX is a term that's hot right now in the industry - we are seeing it mentioned more and more every day. This article will give an overview AJAX from a mobile web point of view. But before we talk about mobile AJAX in particular, we should say a little about what AJAX means.