Following on from my previous tutorial and the public release of TA-DA, I'd like to present a new tutorial based on 2 of our more complicated tests: Usable Display Height and Usable Display Width. [read more...]

This article discusses the role of color in mobile web pages. I believe that 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 developer, screen real estate is at a premium in the mobile web environment. Therefore, finding ways to leverage something like color to communicate such things as page structure and site context is a boon to the mobile web developer. [read more...]

The Test Application (or “test suite", as it is also known) for DeviceAtlas is a system that has been developed which provides you, the user, with the opportunity to input device specific data directly into our system.

This simple process is demonstrated below in a step-by-step introduction to “My First Test Session" , so read on to find out more. [read more...]

By now most people have heard of Google's App Engine (GAE). In case you haven't, GAE lets you run your own web applications on Google's extensive network of servers meaning that you can scale your application as traffic demands, with no hardware headaches, no machine provisioning, no LAMP stacks, no Apache configurations. So far the buzz has been very positive -- with some notable exceptions (Python only for now, no way to schedule tasks on the server) GAE has been well-received by desktop web developers.

But What About Mobile?

So what about the 1.3 billion mobile web devices? Can GAE be used for that also? The short answer is yes, of course, GAE can be made to emit mobile pages also. But to create a mobile web application that really delivers a good experience to end users you need to build in device detection. [read more...]

In the past, delivering content to mobile devices has been a very tricky subject. Developers who came into the mobile world were usually confronted with a new and unknown paradigm, where very little information could be found on how to determine devices' capabilities and to deliver content to them. It was something completely new, and it looked like this information was kept secretly as a precious treasure by those few who had been able to learn it. The aim of this article is to introduce practical examples on how to deliver content to Mobile Devices, making use of sample source code where possible. [read more...]