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  • Domains - Posted by James Pearce 4 weeks ago
  • A Very Modern Mobile Switching Algorithm - Part II
  • This article follows on from last month's Part I, where we discussed some of the principles of handling mobile users and switching their experiences. If you haven't read it yet please do so before we dive into some of the technical ideas and implementation details.
  • Best Practices - Posted by ronan 4 weeks ago
  • Transcoding: what are the Viagra, Cialis and "Dear Winner" of HTML tag soup?
  • Over the last 6 months or so part of the tech team in dotMobi has been working on Instant Mobilizer, a site mobilizer service to help small businesses dip their toes in the waters of the mobile web. One of the big problems with content transcoding is deciding when it should be applied: if there is little hope of it working well another alternative should be offered. 
  • Best Practices - Posted by ruadhan 5 weeks ago
  • The Best and Worst of the Mobile Web
  • Our sister-site mobiThinking.com has just published an eBook on "The Best and Worst of the Mobile Web". In it there are examples of winners and sinners, those who do it right, and those not quite right, and why! So now might be a good time to fire up your mobile browser and let us know if you agree.
  • Best Practices - Posted by Ronan_Mandel 9 weeks ago
  • It's Open if We Tell You It Is
  • I'd like to come back to a topic that I touched on a few months ago: open. In case you weren't paying attention to CTIA in San Francisco last month (and I won't fault you if you weren't), you may have missed the clarification that the major operators in the States provided to the definition of an 'open' network. Sitting together on a stage the bigwigs from Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile each found ways to describe why an 'open' network is not really what the end user wants. Given some of what was said, it's a wonder that any of us are ever able to get apps out there at all.
  • Best Practices - Posted by Ronan_Mandel 12 weeks ago
  • The Google Phone Cometh (so what)?
  • Last week saw the announcement of the first Android based device, the HTC Dream better known now as the T-Mobile G1. Despite the fact that this phone is based on on Open Source platform, the details as they have been released, make it feel very much like any other smartphone that Joe Consumer can go purchase from his operator. It's locked to T-Mobile USA at launch and will find its way into the UK in November before it conquers the world in 2009. Now the real question: So what?
  • Domains - Posted by James Pearce 13 weeks ago
  • A Very Modern Mobile Switching Algorithm - Part I
  • An important question that most web developers ask when developing their first mobile web site is "how do I distinguish between mobile users and desktop users?". Although this seems like a simple enough question at first, of course there's more to it than meets the eye. In fact, what do we even mean by 'distinguish'? How we distinguish their requirements? Their desires? The services they expect? The browsers they happen to be using?
  • Best Practices - Posted by Cyril 32 weeks ago
  • The worst practices of the mobile web, part II
  • A few months ago, I blogged about the worst mistakes I saw on mobile sites. Since this time I have visited and analysed plenty more mobile sites (so that my search crawler can process them better), and I have a few more offenders whose practices can make mobile browsing a nightmare...
  • Best Practices - Posted by ronan 1 year ago
  • Web Developer's Guide released
  • I am proud to announce we recently posted the dotMobi Mobile Web Developer's Guide on mobiForge. This is quite a comprehensive guide to mobile web developement. It layers on the advice from the W3C's Mobile Web Initiative Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 document, but takes it further.
  • Best Practices - Posted by Jo Rabin 2 years ago
  • mobileOK Basic - it has teeth!
  • The W3C announced today the second public draft of the mobileOK test document (the first of mobileOK Basic as it is now known). The document is has changed a lot since the version of the 12th July and I thought I'd take some time to look at some of the ways in which it has changed and to give some personal thoughts about its significance to the development of the Mobile Web.
  • Best Practices - Posted by Jo Rabin 2 years ago
  • Best Practices becomes Proposed Recommendation
  • The W3C announced yesterday that the Mobile Web Best Practices had become a Proposed Recommendation. This means it has passed a number of important milestones of review by members of the Working Group that created it, members of the W3C and the public. There's one more step to go before it becomes a full recommendation.