Tag Archives: Mobile Design
An “essential” document for mobile web designers
June 24, 2008, by James Pearce
We've often maintained that 2008 will be the official "Year of the Mobile Web". But I've always thought that it's also the year when it comes out of the technical shadows - and web designers start to take it seriously.Mature mobile web design has been a long time coming, of course held back by usual gripes like browser capabilities, device diversity and network speeds. But life moves on, and now it's time to make the mobile web look amazing... Read More
240×320, the new standard screen resolution
June 5, 2008, by Cyril
I've had this theory for the last few months, and so I've decided to put it to the test. Today, most of the new phones you can buy have a screen resolution of at least 240x320 and are fully web xHTML (WAP 2.0) capable. When I see all the new models constantly coming to market, it's clear that the common screen width is definitely shifting to 240x320 pixels... Read More
iPhone web design patterns
February 8, 2008, by ronan
We've been putting some more features into find.mobi recently. One of these features is a new skin designed specially for the iPhone. It may seem strange to have an interface that has a version tailored to one particular device but when you think about it makes sense. Our find.mobi interface already had 3 different versions, for high, medium and low resolution phones... Read More
More Mobile Web Design
December 11, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
We have just published another extract from Cameron Moll's excellent book, Mobile Web Design. (Thanks Cameron!) In this next installment from the chapter "Beyond Simple XHTML Pages", topics covered include SVG, Flash Lite, and Location Awareness. Feels like a bit of an SVG-fest here lately, but as Ronan points out, maybe quite a few of us could be paying more attention to this technology... Read More
SVG and the Mobile Web
December 5, 2007, by ronan
It has always surprised me that the mobile industry has not made better use of SVG. SVG is very well suited to publishing rich content on mobile devices for a number of reasons: compact, lightweight, open standard, reasonably good device support. We've just published an article on mobiForge that summarises the capabilities of SVG and how best to take advantage of it for mobile web applications.Link... Read More
