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TADA – Alive and kicking, and DA 2.0 (preview)
August 27, 2008, by daniel.hunt
The DeviceAtlas 2.0 Preview was released on Monday, and with it, access to our TA-DA test suite was opened up to the unwashed masses. A total of 5 new test have been added to the list, which is due grow further with the full 2.0 release due in the coming weeks... Read More
DeviceAtlas 2.0 PREVIEW
August 25, 2008, by atrasatti
Back in June we announced the launch of TA-DA, our own test suite for mobile devices. We followed up with a little tutorial. Despite the summer, the sun and everything else (ok, alright, there is not much sun in Ireland, but we DO go on vacation sometimes) we worked hard in the last couple of months and in fact we are ready to release yet another improvement to DeviceAtlas... Read More
The Growing Mobile Web
August 22, 2008, by Cyril
Since the beginning of the find.mobi project, I've been charged with building its index, and so I've been crawling a lot of web sites. This has given me a good vantage point from which to view the growth of the mobile web, and to notice general trends. The overall impression I have today is of a continuous growth in content and new sites, but no tidal wave just yet... Read More
Mobile Web Design – Working with Color
This article discusses the role of color in mobile web design. Color used effectively allows for visually communicating information about a page without having to take up additional space within the page. As everyone learns, whether a mobile web user, or a mobile web designer or developer, screen real estate is at a premium in the mobile web environment... Read More
Sharing the Love: Introducing the ilovemobileweb Awards
August 15, 2008, by VanceMan
A while back, you may remember us talking about the ilovemobileweb initiative. As the next step of proving how much we love mobile web, we're giving awards to the best of the best .mobi sites as part of the Informa Telecoms & Media / dotMobi Advisory Group's Mobile Web Europe 2008 event... Read More
A Three Step Guide to Usability on the Mobile Web
August 15, 2008, by mobiThinking
Designing mobile sites is a different kind of web design. Much like your first experience of designing for the desktop web, it can be both exhilarating and daunting in equal measures. So many possibilities, yet so many usability restrictions... Read More
JWT turns mobile marketing on its head
August 8, 2008, by mobiThinking
You’d think one of the world’s largest ‘traditional’ advertising agencies would take a traditional approach to mobile marketing. You’d be wrong. JWT is the largest advertising agency by revenue in the United States and the fourth largest agency network worldwide but its approach to mobile is anything but cautious. In this thought-provoking interview, we talk to Jeff Stier, Senior Partner Director of Business Growth North America at JWT and President of JWT’s innovation lab and incubator, Sector 64... Read More
FlashLite Version Detection update
August 8, 2008, by Ronan_Mandel
So if you’re an active FlashLite or Flash developer who keeps an eye on the mobile space, you may have noticed something that happened last month with one of the web’s largest Flash delivery site: YouTube. The change was around the mechanism they used for version detection, and draws attention back to a topic close to the heart of every mobile developer (flash or otherwise): user-agent detection... Read More
News from W3C: Best Practices, mobileOK and Content Transformation Guidelines Progress
August 7, 2008, by Jo Rabin
Last week, W3C announced the final step of approval of the Mobile Web Best Practices as a W3C Recommendation. It's taken quite a while for it to progress to this point, mainly because it had a dependency on HTML Basic 1.1 the version of XHTML that unifies OMA XHTML-MP and W3C work... Read More
X-Device-User-Agent header appearing in requests
August 7, 2008, by atrasatti
One good thing about open standards is that anyone can pick them up and implement them. This means that everyone will benefit from this as the standardization will open new opportunities for everything. If there is one thing that we need in the mobile space, that is standardization... Read More
