Tag Archives: Best Practices
The mobile glass is half full
May 20, 2008, by mobiThinking
The people who develop mobile applications and websites used to only think about the limitations of the mobile device. Small screen. No proper keyboard. No mouse. Today, mobile developers and marketers have woken up to the idea that the mobile handset is not a disabled device, it’s a differently-abled device... 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
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
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
