Why HTML5 is killing Flash: it’s the devices, people!
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Price barrier to a good mobile web experience is falling
November 20, 2007, by ronan
This weekend while idly browsing around some phone stores in Dublin, I noticed that you can now get a Nokia 6120 for about €170 from a couple of different Irish operators with a prepaid contract. This is the lowest price I've seen for a new S60 phone without a contract. It's not short on features either: HSDPA, 2 cameras (1 of which is 2 mega pixel), video calling, nice screen etc... Read More
forumWeb.mobi: Sei pronto?
November 15, 2007, by VanceMan
forumWeb.mobi: Sei pronto? One of the things that's always interesting -- in a good way! -- for us at dotMobi is when we're able to bring together our investors to work on specific projects And as you might guess from the headline of this post, one project that I've got at the top of my mind right now involves our good friends from Italy, TIM. The project is forumWeb.mobi: a special, one-day event we're hosting with TIM and with Ericsson to help tech pros and marketing pros become better acquainted with the mobile web in general ... and .mobi specifically... Read More
DotMobi Virtual Developer Lab
November 8, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Dotmobi has teamed up with MobileComplete to bring you the DotMobi Virtual Developer Lab. Now you can test on REAL devices, including the iPhone, for free!The Virtual Developer Lab, powered by DeviceAnywhere provides remote access to 100s of REAL devices, on live networks from around the world, without the financial burden of owning real devices or signing up to operator contracts... Read More
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
Should government web sites be required to have mobile-friendly versions?
November 2, 2007, by ronan
Last week we put together a site that advised on the current status of the fires burning in California (calfire.mobi, read more about it here). We did this partially because we thought it might be useful to people, but also because we think it can serve as an example for other public advisory sites in general. This got me thinking about the broader issue of making information available to the public: should all government / semi-state bodies be required to create mobile-friendly versions of their web sites?... Read More
Calfire.mobi
Calfire.mobi is an idea for a mobile friendly site which helps get status updates to people on the ground in California. We've pulled data from inciweb.org, weather.com and CBS2.com as well as providing some useful phone numbers as suggested to us by those in the San Diego area... 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
Progresses of the W3C DDWG Core Vocabulary
October 24, 2007, by atrasatti
I'm pleased to say that the work we're doing in the W3C to agree on a Core Vocabulary has made substantial progress and we're seeing the end of the tunnel for an initial release. The Vocabulary has followed a lightweight process that involved mainly 3 steps, the submission via a web form, the discussion by the group about every submitted property and eventually the inclusion in the vocabulary document... Read More
