- Authoring - Posted by cameronmoll 1 year ago
A Beginner's Guide to Mobile Web Development- While accessing the web on a mobile device is nothing new, a renewed interest in developing mobile web content has been ignited by the increased availability of WAP 2.0 devices, an abundance of skilled XHTML developers, and notable efforts by groups such as dotmobi and the W3C’s Mobile Web Initiative.
- 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?
- Authoring - Posted by Ronan_Mandel 18 weeks ago
- An Operator Decides to be Polite…
- Say what you will about the network operators with whom we have to play in the mobile space, but every now and again they do think of the developer community before implementing changes that may impact us all. Case in point, our friends over at AT&T devCentral recently sent out an announcement to the developer community about changes that will be coming as a result of some modifications to their gateway.
- Authoring - Posted by Ronan_Mandel 21 weeks ago
- FlashLite Version Detection update
- So if you’re an active FlashLite or Flash developer who keeps an eye on the mobile space, you may have noticed something that happened last month with one of the web’s largest Flash delivery site: YouTube. The change was around the mechanism they used for version detection, and draws attention back to a topic close to the heart of every mobile developer (flash or otherwise): user-agent detection.
- Authoring - Posted by jonarne 24 weeks ago
The underestimated object element- One of the more powerful elements in XHTML MP (actually a part of XHTML, but extremely powerful and flexible in our mobile world) is the <object> element. Still, it is not used very often. So, I thought I would do some promotion!
- 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...
- Usability - Posted by Ronan_Mandel 33 weeks ago
- WebKit by any other name… or How I found a use for JavaScript
- I’ve been doing a great deal of thinking lately about JavaScript/ECMAScript and the mobile web. What I’ve been struggling with is the need or value for it when it comes to sites which are organically created for mobile. Sure there’s a need to support JavaScript as fully as possible for providing a ‘full web’ experience and managing existing content, but when it comes to designing for the mobile context, is there really value for it?
- Authoring - Posted by Ronan_Mandel 36 weeks ago
- Open Sesame
- There’s lots of chatter about ‘openness’ in the mobile space recently. If you’re listening to the media, you’re hearing it both on the handset and the network side. We’ve got the 700MHz spectrum auction that’s just wrapped up in which Google so cleverly forced the ‘openness’ provision to kick in. Verizon, the largest operator in the US (and the big winner in the C block that’s now required to be ‘open’), making statements that they’re going to allow ‘any device’ on their network.
- Authoring - Posted by Ronan_Mandel 40 weeks ago
- Welcome to my Soap Box...
- Hello, and thanks for stopping by. I’m very pleased to be here on the mobiForge blog after taking a short break from having a platform from which to speak about mobile web issues, concerns and answers for developers. After having spent over 8 years behind the helm of the developer program at Openwave (a.k.a Phone.com a.k.a. Unwired Planet), I find my self engaging in new challenges.
- Authoring - Posted by ruadhan 40 weeks ago
We're jammin'- mobiForge is sponsoring the Mobile Jam Session in Las Vegas next Monday 31 March (the day before CTIA). Following hot on the heels of a successful kick-off jam session in Barcelona during MWC last month, it promises to be a day to inspire new ideas and innovate solutions within the mobile ecosystem. Jam on!
