- dotMobi Compliance - Posted by ronan on 08 Mar 2007
dotMobi Mobile Web Developer's Guide- 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 development. 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 casaise on 06 Mar 2013
Developing custom pictograms for the mobile Web- A matter of trade-offs Pictograms – miniature graphical representations of states, actions and objects – made their way into the mobile Web over 15 years ago. Several normalized (UNICODE, WAP) and proprietary (Japanese emojis, Openwave) mechanisms are in place to enrich Web applications with pre-defined images.
- Browsers - Posted by casaise on 06 Nov 2012
A Guide to Using Pictograms in Mobile Applications- A long-standing feature Developers inspecting the user agent profile of a modern handset like the Motorola XT682 ATRIX TV may be surprised to discover the following ImageCapable declaration which indicates whether a device can display images or not: <prf:ImageCapable>Yes</prf:ImageCapable>
- Browsers - Posted by jonarne on 07 Jun 2009
Location, Location, Location- 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!
- Best Practices - Posted by Ronan_Mandel on 18 May 2009
Widget Investigation leads to a 'Worst Practice' Discovery- Nokia just wrapped up their Developer Conference in Monaco last week. Sadly, I didn't have the budget to go. Maybe you were lucky and did (or maybe you live there, lucky you!). Anyhow, one of the technologies that they're pushing these days is their WRT (Web Run Time) or Widgets for the lay person out there. This whole mobile widget thing is nothing new, but what does appear to be new is that they're gathering a steam this time.
- Browsers - Posted by Ronan_Mandel on 29 Apr 2009
- Accesskeys: Thinking about them in a QWERTY world
- Interestingly enough, in this time of excitement and interest in building apps for mobile phones, Google did a refresh on their web apps for iPhone and Android. Go figure, seems like the mobile web isn't dead even on high end, high power devices. Even more, it would appear to make sense to build mobile specific web interfaces even for fully functional WebKit browser based devices. Imagine that!
- Hosting - Posted by Ronan_Mandel on 17 Feb 2009
- AT&T Gateway address updates
- 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.
- Browsers - Posted by bryanrieger on 15 Jan 2009
Effective Design for Multiple Screen Sizes- So you're a designer and have been tasked with the design of a mobile web site. Chances are, unless you're designing for only one device you're quickly going to be faced with a common problem experienced by designers who work with mobile devices; figuring out what screen size to actually design for. For instance:
- Hosting - Posted by James Pearce on 08 Dec 2008
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.
- Stylesheets - Posted by paulca on 10 Nov 2008
Mobile Web Design: Getting to the Point - Part II- Following on from part I, I want to put into practice the principles that I isolated by looking at GMail, Twitter and Facebook. I’ll apply the principles to one of the most common of web applications: the online store. I want to look at three typical online store pages and then go through some ideas about how best to apply mobile web design principles to the pages. I'll go through the process of building the site from the ground up... from simple sketches through wireframing and the final design.
