May 21, 2007, by admin

Part I of our web guide is now fully hosted as a web document on mobiForge, and each section can be edited and commented on separately:First Page (use the navigation block on the right hand side to help navigate through it) Printable VersionTo get us started on Part II of the guide we thought we'd start with a proposed outline... Read More

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May 16, 2007, by admin

Over the next few months we are going to try an experiment in online authoring. Those who follow our blog will know that we released a mobile web developers guide in electronic format in March (Mobile Web Developer’s Guide Part I). At that time we promised that we would follow up with Part II of this guide.This time we are going to do things a little differently... Read More

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May 7, 2007, by James Pearce

Hopefully you've all spotted the new mobiForge design. Just a few days later, we've dusted off a new mobile version too. Better a little late than never. Previously we used to redirect the user off to a whole different server for the mobile UI. This was a bad practice. What we've now done is create a module for our own CMS engine (we use Drupal) which recognises a mobile device's request on every page and sends a different theme accordingly... Read More

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May 1, 2007, by James Pearce

If you're reading this, you should have noticed that the dev.mobi site looks a little different! We've given the theme a little bit of a lick of paint and restructured a few things. To be honest, we thought the old site was getting a little hard to navigate around, and the fixed-width theme didn't work so well for certain types of content... Read More

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May 1, 2007, by

From June Vodafone UK have decided to introduce a new pricing system that has been designed with VoIP and P2P in mind. By 'in mind', I of course mean that it has it in mind to stop the use of VoIP and P2P... Read More

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April 19, 2007, by svo9712

When developing any mobile content portal we generally think about the accessibility of that portal through the mobile browsers (like Nokia, Openwave, i-mode browsers, AvantGo in PDA etc) which generally uses markup languages like WML, HDML, cHTML, XHTML etc. But how about if a general markup language can serve all the necessity even the VoiceXML output also. HAWHAW is such a toolkit to create universal mobile portals which can be accessible through the Web, mobile as well as through the voice browsers... Read More

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April 13, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue

Pop-up windows are not supported on many mobile devices, and using them can have unpredicatable results. This test checks that you are not using pop up windows in your markup... Read More

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April 13, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue

Just a quick ready.mobi feature update. We’ve had a few problems in the past with the "weight" of the results page of ready.mobi. In particular the Java emulators and Flash charts can slow down your browser considerably (particularly Internet Explorer). As a result we’ve had a number of requests to add an option to disable the charts and emulators. And that's what we've done... Read More

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April 10, 2007, by James Pearce

The Ericsson Mobile JSF Kit provides a JSF library called "MobileFaces", which implements a reference solution for mobile-device-specific rendering for Java EE applications. MobileFaces can render different page content for different end devices based on just one JSF page. This highly reduces the amount of time needed for mobile application development... Read More

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April 5, 2007, by James Pearce

Over at Read/WriteWeb there's an article on "The 85 Piece Mobile Search Tool Kit". We're pleased to see that a variety of dotMobi tools (including this site, http://ready.mobi, and our developer guide) have made it into the box! But there are also plenty of other resource in this list that you might find useful on your mobile development adventures. Enjoy!... Read More

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