daniel.hunt
Latest Articles by daniel.hunt
DeviceAtlas & jQueryMobile
October 16, 2010, by daniel.hunt
The first Alpha release of jQueryMobile was announced today, to great fanfare, and the mobile web world is already on fire with the thoughts of what this will mean to them. A little bit of background... Originally developed by John Resig, jQueryMobile's big brother "jQuery" is now in use by pretty much anyone who implements advanced JavaScript capabilities on their site... Read More
Mobile Web Development & Device Detection
September 23, 2010, by daniel.hunt
Peter-Paul Koch, also known as @ppk, has posted a three part blog-post on the State of mobile web development [ one | two | three ], in response to Mike Rowehl's recent (correct & justified)... Read More
DeviceAtlas API 1.4
August 31, 2010, by daniel.hunt
This week was an important one for DeviceAtlas - we finally launched the new 1.4 version of our API! Why 1.4? The mobile web is constantly evolving, and with it, device detection needs to evolve too. With significant evolution in device capabilities, and large structural developments in certain device headers, the new DeviceAtlas API provides a highly flexible platform to cater for this growth, both now and well into the future... Read More
The dot conf 2010
July 29, 2010, by daniel.hunt
Last week (22nd July 2010) I was lucky enough to attend the first ever dot conf in the NCI in Dublin, Ireland. What is the dot conf? The dot conf is a new web technology conference for anyone who works, rests or plays with the internet. It’s a one day event and it's free. Essentially it's a teddy bears picnic but with internet folk instead of bears... Read More
DeviceAtlas & HTML5
May 19, 2010, by daniel.hunt
HTML5 is the brand new version of HTML, which contains a number of differences to it's predecessor... Read More
DeviceAtlas – Now with C++ & Apache Module
October 22, 2009, by daniel.hunt
Here at dotMobi we're paying attention to what you, our users, customers and loyal followers want. And something we've noticed about your comments and emails, is that one of the most important things about device detection is performance. Well, in answer to the floods of emails from our regulars, we're delighted to announce the release of an official C++ API implementation, and an Apache Module!... Read More
DeviceAtlas 2.4.1 Released
June 10, 2009, by daniel.hunt
Late yesterday evening, some of you may have noticed that DeviceAtlas went offline for a couple of hours - now that it's back on its feet again I can tell you that DeviceAtlas 2.4.1 has now been released! 2.4.1 is mainly a maintainence release, but we've managed to squeeze in a few exciting little nuggets that we're sure you're going to love. New Properties markup.wml1: This will let you know the capability of devices to display content in WML... Read More
TADA Usage Snippets
May 5, 2009, by daniel.hunt
Regular contributors to DeviceAtlas will hopefully already know what TA-DA is, but in case you need a refresher class, you can have a quick glance at a few of these pages if you want. Back? Good... Read More
Drupal 5 – Progressive downloads in “private” mode
January 20, 2009, by daniel.hunt
Just a quick one to let anyone using Drupal know that it *is* possible to serve files using HTTP_RANGE! After a little bit of digging around, Andrea and I found this patch file (attached to this post), which allows Drupal 5 to serve files to range-supporting clients. Why bother with this post? Well, the iPhone doesn't support file-downloading, nor does it support multimedia file-streaming, but it does support progressive download via http!... Read More
Audio/Video Playback & Streaming Support on Mobile Devices
January 19, 2009, by daniel.hunt
Audio and video are very important tools in the arsenal available to web-developers, marketing/sales types and content providers (to name but a few). Few are likely to remember the internet before YouTube, before on-demand playback of your favourite tv shows or even before Google for that matter, which means that the ability to embed movies and rich content in a webpage is almost certainly taken for granted in today's always-on world... Read More
