News & Comment
You’ve been throttled, but don’t stop browsing!
December 19, 2014, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
With the roll-out of LTE networks across the world over the past few years, and all the associated excitement about super high-speed mobile connections, it can be easy to forget that slow-to-grindingly-slow is the normal connection speed across large parts of the world. In Asia Pacific, for example—the world’s fastest growing mobile market—65% of all connections were 2G only in 2013... Read More
Free service to identify device type, browser and OS
December 10, 2014, by Martin Clancy
If you are looking for an easy and reliable way to identify device type (mobile, tablet, desktop, TV etc), OS and browser in your web applications, then you may want to check out a new free tool for that express purpose released by DeviceAtlas... Read More
HTML5 best practice Web apps: Quartz
November 3, 2014, by mobiThinking
David Jensen is the head of development at popular UK free newspaper Metro. He has overseen the migration of metro.co.uk to become a responsively-designed web app. With his first-hand experience of HTML5 and web apps, mobiThinking asked Jensen about his favourite web app (other than Metro)... Read More
Android forks: Why Google can rest easy. For now
October 9, 2014, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
With worldwide sales of phones based on Android forks on the up, and with big cloud competitor Amazon consolidating its move into the Android-based OS space race with the release of the Fire Phone, it’s time to look at Android forks. What is a fork? When is a fork not really a fork? And what do they mean for users and developers? What is an Android fork?... Read More
Roundup: Smashing Conference 2014
September 29, 2014, by paddy2k
Every year the team behind Smashing Magazine invites web professionals from all over the globe to join them in their home town of Freiburg, Germany for two days of talks and discussion about the web, hosted by Jeremy Keith. The Gothic surrounds of the Historical Merchants' Hall stood in juxtaposition with the cutting edge technologies under discussion by the attending web designers and JavaScript developers... Read More
