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Setting HTTP headers to advise transcoding proxies
September 28, 2007, by atrasatti
If you want to add specific HTTP headers to your pages and applications there are many different solutions depending on your environment. There are a lot of reasons why you would want to add an HTTP header, but in this article I want to use as an example a couple of headers that will help you declare that your content should not be transformed and, if you do content adaptation, which headers you use to detect the browser and the device... Read More
Categories of properties in a device DB
September 21, 2007, by atrasatti
There are some properties that are meaningful for many aspects of a mobile device. An image format can be supported or not supported in the browser, in the MMS client, can be used as a wallpaper and so on... Read More
Building a mobile device test suite
August 9, 2007, by atrasatti
Building a test suite might seem like a simple task at first sight, but unfortunately it is not like that. First of all you need to decide what properties you want to test, and since we are talking about mobile devices there are so many things to test that it becomes hard to make a decision... Read More
User Tracking, Sessions and Cookies
July 17, 2007, by atrasatti
User tracking is a very important feature for any web site whether it's for desktop computers, mobile devices, set-top boxes or anything else. When a user visits your site you want to know how long his visit lasted, which contents he visited, what navigation path was followed and so on. This is functionality we have become used to having in most, if not all the web sites. Tracking can be used for many different reasons - what we are going to cover here is focused on navigation sessions... Read More
dotMobi’s mobile phone database, what is this?
July 13, 2007, by atrasatti
You might have read the recent press release from dotMobi about the launch of a global mobile phone database. The press release also mentions that I have been appointed as Director of Device Initiatives and this means that I will be in charge of the project, starting from the design and down to the development and launch as a public service. In the last few years I have made some good experience in device databases with WURFL and worked with some first class people in the W3C's DDWG. dotMobi seemed like the perfect place to start a whole new adventure to create a new and innovative device database. I have all the experience of the open-source community and the will to make a first class product that can satisfy the small shops and the enterprises, dotMobi is the right place to try to achieve this huge task... Read More
