- Domains - Posted by Cyril 13 weeks ago
The Growing Mobile Web- Since the beginning of the find.mobi project, I've been charged with building its index, and so I've been crawling a lot of web sites. This has given me a good vantage point from which to view the growth of the mobile web, and to notice general trends. The overall impression I have today is of a continuous growth in content and new sites, but no tidal wave just yet.
- Browsers - Posted by Cyril 24 weeks ago
- 240x320, the new standard screen resolution
- I've had this theory for the last few months, and so I've decided to put it to the test. Today, most of the new phones you can buy have a screen resolution of at least 240x320 and are fully web xHTML (WAP 2.0) capable. When I see all the new models constantly coming to market, it's clear that the common screen width is definitely shifting to 240x320 pixels.
- Best Practices - Posted by Cyril 26 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 Cyril 49 weeks ago
- Find favicons
- The favorites icon, that little icon displayed next to the URL bar in most PC browsers, can be quite useful for mobile. It allows identification of a site in only 16x16 pixels and just hundreds of bytes. Most favicons are unique, and despite being too small to accommodate text or a complex logo-type, users can identify a site more quickly by its favicon than by reading the URL.
- Network - Posted by Cyril 1 year ago
- Cooking the mobile web
- Ingredients: Handsets, Operators efforts, Content and Educated public. Instructions:Prepare your handsets until most of them are technically ready to display and browse mobile content.While this step is going in a good way, start the long process to shape mobile content, it must have a nice flavor of context relative.Last step you gently mix operators efforts to provide a cheap, fast and enthusiastic access. And don’t forget to pour some education on your public, so everybody will know that mobile web is cool, cheap and tasty!
- Mobile Design - Posted by Cyril 1 year ago
- The worst practices of the mobile web.
- It's more usual to give good examples and best practices, but since I'm visiting and analyzing .mobi websites, and I have seen so many bad things, I decided take the snake by the tail. Feel free to avoid these worst practices. At the head of the hall of shame, I claim ...
