Tag Archives: Browsers
Are Widgets ready for me?
June 18, 2009, by Ronan_Mandel
OK, so getting back to the widget reality here. I'd like to take a look at what the platforms are, what your options are and if it's really even worth it to go there. I know that last time I got a bit distracted with the whole 'sprite' thing, but I promise to stay on track here... Read More
Battle of the Superphones: Palm Pre vs. Apple iPhone – which is a better Web browsing device?
June 16, 2009, by ronan
There are already countless reviews of the newly announced Palm Pre available online. Rather than write another one, we instead are going to focus on what we, and we hope, our readers, are most interested in: how does the Pre fare as a web browsing device. In particular, we're going to test how well it does against its arch-rival, the iPhone. Can the Pre out-iPhone the iPhone? We're going to ignore the app store, the widgets, the battery life, the media player and instead focus on web browsing. ... Read More
Fennec Delivers!
May 21, 2009, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
We've all been eagerly anticipating the entry of the Fennec (Firefox Mobile to the uninitiated) into the mobile browser space. A couple of days ago we were given our first taste of the future with Fennec when a new alpha version was released for Windows Mobile devices. So how does it stand up? Well, initial testing seems to indicate that Fennec will certainly be a contender. The Fennec team have packed in support for a wide array of technologies... Read More
Widget Investigation leads to a ‘Worst Practice’ Discovery
May 18, 2009, by Ronan_Mandel
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... Read More
Accesskeys: Thinking about them in a QWERTY world
April 29, 2009, by Ronan_Mandel
Interestingly enough, in this time of excitement and interest in building apps for mobile phones, Google did a refresh on their [i]web[/i] 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!... Read More