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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.
  • dotMobi Compliance - Posted by ronan 1 year ago
  • dotMobi Mobile Web Developer's Guide
  • This is quite a comprehensive guide to mobile web development. It layers on the advice from the W3C's Mobile Web Initiative Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 document, but takes it further. We feel that it is very important to take the base of these best practices and make it more accessible. With this in mind, our developer guide starts by describing the mobile landscape in detail, and the importance of the mobile context.
  • 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...
  • dotMobi Compliance - Posted by ruadhan 47 weeks ago
  • Fixit - Image Resizing
  • Problem: Your page fails the ready.mobi Image resizing test What it means 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.
  • dotMobi Compliance - Posted by ruadhan 48 weeks ago
  • Fixit - Measures
  • Problem: Your page fails the ready.mobi Measures test What it means 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
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