A Review of Mobile Web Sites
mobiThinking put together a panel of mobile marketers to review some of today’s top mobile sites. Their reviews and quotes provide a lot of good insight for anyone building a mobile presence. Best and...
View ArticleSelecting a Mobile Web Site Domain: Choose Wisely
I recently did some research on the web addresses (or, host names) that companies use for their mobile web sites. Turns out, there are quite a few varieties. That isn’t helping anyone who is trying...
View ArticleMobile Connect: Call for Speakers
TechWeb announced their Mobile Connect conference, which I’m playing a very small part in helping to organize. The call for speakers is currently open through Jan 31 if you’re interested in being a...
View ArticleWhy Android is Important
I was in a conversation the other day about mobile platforms and the topic of Android, Google’s mobile OS, came up. The general outlook was: new, interesting, but too few devices to be concerned...
View ArticleHow to Improve JavaScript Latency in Mobile Browsers
Mobile browsers are really coming along. Mobile Safari is built on top of WebKit and has just as much capability as the desktop version. Same with Android’s browser. Blackberry’s browser, I...
View ArticleLeaner iPhone Interfaces with CSS Gradients
I started playing around with Safari’s CSS gradients yesterday to see whether they would be usable on One tsp.’s mobile interface. Looks like there has been support in WebKit for about a year now, but...
View ArticleBrowser Testing for Mobile Web Applications
Developers working on mobile web apps need to be able to test their apps or sites in all of the major mobile platforms. Unfortunately, there are not a lot of good resources online for how to go about...
View ArticleMobile Sites Outpace Native Apps… But What About Web Apps?
I was excited to read this article about mobile web sites growing faster than native apps, a trend I believe will continue in the future. Taptu estimates that there are 326,000 Mobile Touch Web sites...
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Reaction to PPK’s “The iPhone obsession”
PPK wrote a thought provoking post drawing a parallel between iPhone-specific mobile development and IE6-specific development we saw begin a decade ago and is still, somewhat surprisingly, biting us in...
View ArticleMobile Sites Proliferate by Category
An article on RWW about mobile apps and browser-based sites highlights the different concentrations in categories between native apps and mobile sites. Native apps are heavily weighted toward games...
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