JavaScript server-side rendering with device detection
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dev.mobi Over The Air
April 2, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Over the Air, the 48 hour mobile un-conference and code-fest is happening in London this coming Friday & Saturday. We're sponsoring the event and Ronan, Jo and Andrea will be attending. There will be a hands-on all you need to know about DeviceAtlas in one hour session, presented by Andrea, and Ronan will be presenting the SVG masterclass... Read More
DeviceAtlas 1.1 now with Argogroup data
April 1, 2008, by atrasatti
A new major DeviceAtlas release is now ready for usage. Version 1.1 includes data from Argogroup adding information to more than 650 devices and more than 100 new devices. Despite the date, this is not a joke, we have just released a new update for DeviceAtlas and for our JSON file, of course. Today's update includes improvements to the web site, but most of all makes available information from our partners at Argogroup adding great value and trust to our database... Read More
Welcome to my Soap Box…
March 31, 2008, by Ronan_Mandel
Hello, and thanks for stopping by. I’m very pleased to be here on the mobiForge blog after taking a short break from having a platform from which to speak about mobile web issues, concerns and answers for developers. After having spent over 8 years behind the helm of the developer program at Openwave (a.k.a Phone.com a.k.a. Unwired Planet), I find my self engaging in new challenges... Read More
Image Adaptation with DeviceAtlas
March 31, 2008, by svo9712
In this article we look at image adaptation using the DeviceAtlas API. For the mobile web it is often important to provide device specific images with correct format and size. Here we describe an Image Adaptation API, developed by Muntasir Mamun Joarder which makes use of the DeviceAtlas PHP API to to convert images on-the-fly into a format and size appropriate for the requesting device... Read More
The DeviceAtlas API in PHP – Part II (Beyond the API)
Update 10/02/2009 We have just released version 2.3 of our API as a Beta with a whole host of new features that make integrating it into any PHP website much much easier. The new API also does all the hard work described in this tutorial for you, so stop reading and check it out. The download comes with extensive samples and documentation to help you get started too. Find out more... (Part II in a two part series. See Part I )"DeviceAtlas is the world's most comprehensive database of mobile device information." [deviceatlas.com]. The database comes with an API that developers can use to determine the capabilities of devices browsing their website and in so doing adapt their content to make it suitable for the user’s context. Part II of this tutorial will point out some of the challenges that developers may encounter in implementing DeviceAtlas such as user agent "sniffing" and data caching for increased performance. It will also provide possible methods to address these challenges and a few examples of these... Read More
Mobile devices – What makes you tick?
March 27, 2008, by daniel.hunt
Take a moment to think about this... How many gadgets or devices do you have, disregarding their portability? Of these devices, how many do use on a daily basis? And finally, of these devices, how many to you have on or with you right now?... Read More
We’re jammin’
March 26, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
mobiForge is sponsoring the Mobile Jam Session in Las Vegas next Monday 31 March (the day before CTIA). Following hot on the heels of a successful kick-off jam session in Barcelona during MWC last month, it promises to be a day to inspire new ideas and innovate solutions within the mobile ecosystem. Jam on!... Read More
Content Transformation and “The Manifesto”
March 26, 2008, by Jo Rabin
There has been a lot of discussion in recent days on Luca's Manifesto. I just wanted to note that the W3C Content Transformation Task Force is working with industry players to find a resolution to this difficult problem. The goal is to reconcile the objectives of those various players particularly "to help provide users with an acceptable experience of the Web on Mobile". I represent dotMobi on the Task Force and in fact am the editor of the Guidelines that the Task Force is producing... Read More
Responsible Reformatting
March 25, 2008, by jonarne
We have recently seen that several mobile network operators have implemented what's become known as "content transcoders" or "transcoding proxies". Vodafone and TeliaSonera are among them. The idea is to make the desktop web available on mobile devices. One of the side effects we have seen is that, put simply, already mobile optimized portals are also reformatted, destroying a carefully designed mobile user experience. Luca Passani has taken the initiative to clarify the impact of transcoders and suggest some basic rules for transcoding proxies to follow in this developer manifesto... Read More
6 mobile stats you might not know
March 21, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
A quick glance at some Irish & European data just published by Comreg, Ireland's Communications Regulator, in its latest report: 140% - the level of mobile penetration in Italy & Greece (EU high), compared with 88% in France (EU low), and EU average of 108%... Read More
