Tag Archives: Browsers
Mobile Web Design – Beyond Simple XHTML Pages III
February 14, 2008, by admin
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... Read More
User Agent Switcher config file
December 19, 2007, by ronan
Chris Pederick's User Agent Switcher is an essential Firefox add-on for anybody in the business of creating mobile web sites. We've talked about this before but it is worth mentioning again. This little add-on lets your Firebox (or Flock / Mozilla / Seamonkey) emulate a mobile device in its requests by sending a configurable User-Agent string. I've attached a config file to this post that contains the correct UA strings for a few common phones and the W3C Default Delivery Context. This will save you the trouble of finding the correct strings yourself... Read More
What, no GPS?
December 3, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Well we all knew it was possible: location by cell information. It's just that it hasn't really turned up in that many mainstream mobile applications. So hats off to Google with Maps for Mobile 2.0. They've managed to turn an already great application into quite simply one of the best, must-have free mobile applications available... Read More
Getting started with Mobile AJAX
August 21, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
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... Read More
Apple iPhone passes muster
June 27, 2007, by ronan
So it looks like the initial reviews of the iPhone are mostly positive, with David Pogue and Walt Mossberg both giving it a thumbs up. My two biggest reservations about the device seem to be mostly non-issues:... Read More
