News & Comment
DeviceAtlas implementation of the W3C Simple API Recommendation
April 22, 2008, by atrasatti
It is almost midnight in Dublin, almost 1am in Italy and we are still busy preparing what we think is a very exciting release. We have worked hard in the W3C in the last year together with some of the greatest players of this industry (Fundacion CTIC, MobileAware, Volantis, Telefonica, to name a few) and the results are eventually coming... Read More
Viewports on mobile browsers
April 16, 2008, by ronan
Is it any wonder that users of low-end phones don't browse the web that much? Take a look at this photo of a Nokia 6131 in the default web browser. By my very crude calculations, the percentage of the overall screen area actually used by the browser to display useful content is a mere 65%. Why the gaping void between the bottom of the viewport and the menu? Why throw away so many pixels for the scrollbar? By the way, the browser was configured to use "Full" screen size... Read More
Ready.mobi Roadmap – we want your feedback!
April 15, 2008, by johnl
Thousands of you have used ready.mobi to test your sites, so we are interested to capture any feedback you may have, and particularly any new capabilities you would like to see. The roadmap for the remainder of the year is being completed, so this is an opportunity to influence the content - let us know what you think... Read More
10 things about dev.mobi, RSS Feeds, Subscriptions and Tracking
April 14, 2008, by daniel.hunt
I've put together a list of the 10 best things I can list about dev.mobi. Its hardly exhaustive, and there are plenty more that I could add in, but I didn't like the title "42 things you should know about dev.mobi". It just doesn't have the same 'ring' about it... Read More
Score one for the Developers!
April 4, 2008, by Ronan_Mandel
In case you missed it Openwave announced an update to its OpenWeb Adaptation Solution which will do a better job of respecting mobile specific content and the intent of the content onwer/author. It turns out that the Openwave contribution to the see of transforming proxies to bring the 'full web' down to mobile browsers will now at least make an attempt at allowing developers who take the time, effort and energy to build mobile specific interfaces actually deliver them to end users... Read More
