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Fixit – Measures
February 4, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Avoiding pixel and absolute measures allows the browser to adapt content to fit the display, though there are exceptions to this rule (see below). This test checks for the use of absolulte and pixel measures where relative measures would be more appropriate... Read More
Won’t someone please think of the prepaid user?
February 3, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
A while back Ronan blogged about the stifling effect of data charges on the growth of the mobile Internet. Well since then, 3 launched their X-Series flat-rate data package, and people got excited. This was a great development and a possible catalyst for the widespread penetration of mobile Internet usage. Surely the other operators would have to follow suit with similar competitive data plans... Read More
Fixit – Tables
February 1, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
This test determines if your page uses tables. Tables do not work well on limited size screens and may result in the user having to scroll horizontally to read them. Putting navigational links into tables may result in the user having both to scroll horizontally and vertically to see possible navigational choices. ... Read More
Fixit – Tables for layout
January 31, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
This test attempts to determines if your page is using tables for layout purposes. Tables should be used to present tabular data, rather than to control the layout of a page. The problems associated with using tables for layout are well documented. In particular, they generally require more markup and take longer to render than acheiving the same with CSS... Read More
Vodafone plans for Bangladesh
January 31, 2008, by svo9712
Vodafone, the mobile giant from UK is interested to invest in Bangladesh. There was an ongoing talk about Vodafone’s movement from November last year. But the recent visit of Gavin Darby, the CEO of Vodafone Asia, Africa, China and India in Bangladesh made a lot of news about Vodafone’s footage in Bangladeshi market... Read More
Fixit – Nested Tables
January 24, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
This test determines if your page make use of nested tables. Mobile devices often cannot display nested tables correctly. When a mobile device is capable of displaying nested tables, the computations required to render the tables can consume lot of CPU and add to the display time for the page... Read More
Fixit – External Resources
January 23, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
This test determines how many externally linked resources your page relies on. Linked resources include images, stylesheets and other objects. Each externally linked resource requires a separate request across the network. This may add a significant amount to the page load time in the mobile context. ... Read More
Bangladesh: Some Unique Services from the Telcos
January 22, 2008, by svo9712
There are currently six(6) mobile operators in Bangladesh. Among them GrameenPhone, AKTEL, Banglalink, Warid and Teletalk are the GSM operator. Whereas CityCell is the only one CDMA operator in Bangladesh. So far GSM is more popular than CDMA here. I think this is because of characterstics of Bangladeshi people. We generally like to change handsets frequently. Or I may say that we like to have more handset options in which sector GSM technology is found great. Anyway today I will just try to focus on some of the Value Added Services (VAS) from different operators here which I think gave some sort of uniqueness to them... Read More
Mobile Sites with Joomla! CMS
As the number of mobile devices continues to outpace the number of desktop computers, the creation of mobile-accessible sites is becoming more and more important. This article addresses the issue of making a Joomla based site mobile-accessible.For other content management systems such as Typo3, Wordpress, and Drupal, the making of mobile-friendly versions of the sites has already been discussed on mobiForge (see Multi-client Websites with the Typo3 CMS and WURFL, Mobile-Friendly Blogging with WordPress, and Creating Mobile Sites in Drupal Using Multisites). This article is devoted to achieving a similar effect in Joomla using the 'PDA-mambot'... Read More
Fixit – No Frames
January 4, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Frames are not supported on many mobile devices, and using them may have unpredictable results. Frames are also considered as being generally problematic. This test checks that your page does not use frames... Read More
