Archive for the 'MobileWeb' Category

dotMobi buys Mowser

Mowser lives; pretty awesome. Just read that dotMobi has acquired Mowser, and that Mike and Russ will join dotMobi... From dotMobi Loves Mowser (dotMobi): At long last ...

Developing Mobile Widgets: a comprehensible tutorial

Thomas Landspurg (CTO of Webwag) wrote in his blog about a tutorial they published on developing mobile widgets for the Webwag platform using XML and ...

On the end of Mowser, and the death of the mobile web

So Mowser is shutting down. That's too bad. Russell Beattie and Mike Rowehl, the two guys behind Mowser, truly understand mobility and mobile web, had ...

Rules for Ethical Reformatting: A Developer Manifesto

I'm glad to see Luca Passani et al. Rules for Ethical Reformatting: A Developer Manifesto. These rules (or guidelines) on ethical reformatting for mobile we are ...

Mobile Portals

From Mike Rowehl's blog: "(A list or directory of Mobile Portals) is something that was mentioned at Mobile 2.0 a few times as well: there ...

Mowser - mobilizing the Web

I think Mowser rocks. It is simple, seems to use the right approach to context adaptation, and man, it's fast -- just check the Mowser ...

Mobile Web and JSF (and transformation/adaptation)

Following the recent discussions on The iPhone, One Web, Content Transformation, Multi-touch, and fingers and Transcoding is a hot topic these days in the mobile ...

Vodafone Mobile Web (User-Agent) Debacle

Today I read on multiple weblogs (Mike Rowehl, Barbara Ballard, David Harper), about Luca Passani's rant on Vodafone's mishandling of the User-Agent HTTP header. I am ...

Cameron Moll’s Mobile Web Design Book

Cameron's book on mobile web design is now available for download (PDF) at his http://mobilewebbook.com website. I got the opportunity to review the book beforehand, and ...

Call for Participation - Workshop on Mobile Ajax

From the announcement: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the OpenAjax Alliance are co-sponsoring a Workshop on Mobile Ajax, to take place on 28 September ...

XHTML Basic 1.1 reference released by W3C

The W3C has released the XHTML Basic 1.1 as a Candidate Recommendation. With it, Dominique has published a useful cheat sheet -- the XHTML Basic 1.1 ...

We’re really at Mobile Web 0.5

Yes we are... but don't take my word for it... Sumit Agarwal, a product manager in Google’s mobile division, also believes so... See Mobile Web 2.0 ...

Mobile AJAX FAQ @ Horizon Channel

Earlier this week, Rocco Georgi, Bryan Rieger, and Ajit Jaokar published their Mobile AJAX FAQ at the Horizon Channel. There has been a number of reactions ...

The Future of Web Applications is "Local"

The disconnected Web... the future of web applications is "local". The line in between that separates "local" and "web-based" applications will continue to blur. First Dojo ...

Nokia Web Browser Design Guide

Nokia published a new Web Browser Design Guide (PDF). It covers: Overview of the (S60) Nokia Web Browser Content delivery, usability, and development and testing environments Basic Web ...