- Content Adaptation - Posted by ronan 1 day ago
Build a Mobile and Desktop-Friendly Application in Django in 15 Minutes- This article quickly walks you through the process of setting up an absolutely minimal mobile- and desktop-friendly web application using the Django framework. This particular framework works very well with mobile thanks to the way its templates are structured and makes for a good choice for new web-based applications.
- 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.
- Design Patterns - Posted by jonarne 4 weeks ago
One web 2.0 - social edition- I bet I am not the only one wondering what Nokia was going to announce yesterday... In addition to the N97, Nokia Messaging was the big news. Put short, Nokia Messaging is enabling a bunch of IM-like services on the phone. In my mind this is an important change in the traditional mind pattern device manufacturers, and MNOs, have had until the iPhone.
- Content Adaptation - Posted by adrian.hopebailie 5 weeks ago
The DeviceAtlas API in ASP.NET- Part I (The Basics)- DeviceAtlas is the world's most comprehensive database of mobile device information. The database comes with an API that developers can use to determine the capabilities of devices browsing their website and in so doing adapt their content to make it suitable for the user’s context.Part I of this tutorial will assist ASP.NET developers in learning the basics of the API and how to use it.
- Content Adaptation - Posted by atrasatti 5 weeks ago
DeviceAtlas 2.1.1 online, also C++ API and video properties coming soon - As the number suggests, DeviceAtlas 2.1.1 is minor upgrade from version 2.1 that we released just 3 weeks ago.
- Browsers - Posted by James Pearce 9 weeks ago
Introducing the new DeviceAtlas Data Explorer- We teased you about this a few months ago and we've now finally finished! DeviceAtlas v2.1 offers analytics tools to explore the mobile device information in its database. In the video below, James and Andrea give you a teaser of how it works, and talk through some of the cool new tricks. We're going live next Monday, and we'll announce here when it's available. UPDATE: we've gone live.
- 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?
- Browsers - Posted by James Pearce 15 weeks ago
User Agent Widget Trace Facility- Sometimes you've got a user-agent on your clipboard and you just can't work out what it is. Enter our User Agent Widget Trace Facility (or UA-WTF for short). Scroll down a little and start entering a mobile browser user-agent into the box below. With a bit of cross-site scripting magic, we've hooked up this page to a live instance of our DeviceAtlas API. As you type (hopefully) you'll see what we know about it. DeviceAtlas Ts&Cs apply. Have fun!
- Tutorial - Posted by daniel.hunt 18 weeks ago
TADA Advanced Tests - A Tutorial- 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.
- Content Adaptation - Posted by Jo Rabin 21 weeks ago
News from W3C: Best Practices, mobileOK and Content Transformation Guidelines Progress - Last week, W3C announced the final step of approval of the Mobile Web Best Practices as a W3C Recommendation. It's taken quite a while for it to progress to this point, mainly because it had a dependency on HTML Basic 1.1 the version of XHTML that unifies OMA XHTML-MP and W3C work.
