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A Skeptic’s View On Google’s Intent To Deprecate And Freeze The User-Agent Header
LBS in Opera Mini?
February 22, 2008, by ronan
Random thought: if Google can manage to make cell ID-based location information work in its J2ME map applications, couldn't Opera do the same with Opera Mini?... Read More
New features in find.mobi
February 21, 2008, by ronan
Now that MWC has passed and we're temporarily freed of the metabolism it imposes on us (and the entire industry), it's time to report on what we've been up to. We've been adding some new features to find.mobi. The biggest new feaure is one that is not immediately apparent to the eye: a much bigger index of mobile web content. We did this with a delicate blend of brute force and subtlety:... Read More
PAMP: Personal Apache MySQL PHP
February 16, 2008, by svo9712
Those of us familiar with dynamic web programming have most likely heard the term LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP). LAMP refers to a stack of software used to run a website or server. In LAMP, Apache is the web server, MySQL is the database and PHP is the programming language. Good news is that, as the outcome of the open source research of Nokia PAMP, the AMP stack for Series60 mobile devices is now available... Read More
TeliaSonera launching Novarra transcoder (updated)
February 14, 2008, by jonarne
(update at the bottom) We all remember the riot regarding Vodafone UK and their introduction of the Novarra transcoding engine. TeliaSonera in Sweden has actually just lauched a Novarra service of their own called SurfOpen (does not have anything todo with neither surf nor open in my opinion)... Read More
Mobile Web Design – Beyond Simple XHTML Pages III
February 14, 2008, by admin
In recent years, widgets have been widely popularized due to the success of Yahoo! Widgets (http://widgets.yahoo.com) and Mac OS X Dashboard (http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/dashboard). Widget, a term that traditionally refers to operating system GUI components such as dialog boxes or pop-up windows, is also used to describe small, lightweight applications that run within a local client. These “micro” applications are very compact in both physical size and file size and usually perform only one or two simple functions... Read More
DeviceAtlas is now officially accessible
February 12, 2008, by atrasatti
Today we are announcing DeviceAtlas which is the result of many months of work here at dotMobi. It all officially started in June 2007, but the plan within the company had already started quite a few months earlier. It has been a real team work, Jo Rabin and I worked actively in the W3C DDWG to make sure there would be a Core Vocabulary and a Simple API... Read More
iPhone web design patterns
February 8, 2008, by ronan
We've been putting some more features into find.mobi recently. One of these features is a new skin designed specially for the iPhone. It may seem strange to have an interface that has a version tailored to one particular device but when you think about it makes sense. Our find.mobi interface already had 3 different versions, for high, medium and low resolution phones... Read More
Fixit – Image Resizing
February 7, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Images such as bitmaps have an intrinsic pixel size. Telling the browser in advance what the size is avoids it having to re-flow the page when it receives it. Resizing images at the server reduces the amount of data transferred and the amount of processing the client has to carry out to scale the image... Read More
Making your .mobi domain compliant
February 7, 2008, by ronan
The .mobi domain is unlike all other domains in that it has a set of rules that web site owners must follow -- most other domains such as .com, .net, and .org do not have any technical requirements about the content hosted in the domain. The .mobi rules often cause confusion amongst site developers and domain holders so we thought we'd try to help people get their domains to pass muster... Read More
Lightweight Device-Detection in ASP
February 6, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Device detection is the first step in performing content adaptation. Here we cover lightweight device detection using classic ASP (VBScript). This is based on the PHP version found here. It is a simple script which will detect most mobile browsers. However, if you need more information about the properties of the device such as screen width and height, image format support etc. so that you can tailor your content to specific devices, then you need something more than this. In this case you should consider using a full device properties database such as DeviceAtlas... Read More
