Design & Development
Flash Lite and Video Streaming
November 6, 2007, by Giorgio Natili
The aim of this article is to provide the basic knowledge needed to start with Flash Lite and its compelling multimedia capabilities. We start with a basic introduction to Flash Lite, describing its history and capabilities. This is followed by a description of the tools necessary to develop Flash Lite applications. Towards the end we outline a simple application for streaming video with Flash Lite... Read More
Mobile Web Design – Beyond Simple XHTML Pages I
November 2, 2007, by cameronmoll
When developing content for mobile devices, it's important to look beyond simple XHTML/CSS pages and even beyond the browser. The interplay between web content and mobile user can occur in a variety of ways, some of which are often more efficient, affordable, or universal than browser-based interaction--even some of which are not delivered through the web but through other content delivery channels. This chapter exposes a few approaches for developing a well-rounded mobile strategy... Read More
DotMobi Switch On! Guides (Style Guides)
October 25, 2007, by admin
The dotMobi Switch On! Guides are a set of guides governing certain technical protocols and services in the .mobi domain. These style guides are a combination of mandatory rules and optional best practices that, when applied to content and services associated with the domain, ensure a good user experience for users interacting with the domain and its services via a mobile device... Read More
Screencast: Beginning Mobile Web Development
October 25, 2007, by admin
In order to help web developers who are already familiar with authoring for the PC-internet adapt their skills to mobile, mTLD provides a short online course that help explains the different techniques that are required for creating a mobile site. This course is completely free of charge and streamed directly to your browser... Read More
Device simulators with PHP
October 19, 2007, by H2f
When a new mobile application is launched, it often is an issue how it is to be presented to the targeted users on the web. Linking directly to the application URL often results in a poor browsing experience on standard web browsers. Likewise, relying on one of the known online device emulators may result in compatibility problems, performance issues and dependencies on third party web servers... Read More
