Category Archives: MobileWeb

The Skyfire mobile browser is now available in public beta. If you haven’t tried it yet, you should; the browser is pretty neat, is fast, and works great. Currently, the Skyfire browser is only supported in the US on Windows … Continue reading →

If you work on mobile web technologies and/or applications, or are just interested on learning about them, you should consider attending Mobile Web Strategies 2008 event (September 9th 2008, San Francisco). The are lots of interesting topics being discussed, including … Continue reading →

The MobileWidget Camp Austin planning is under way. It is going to be a very cool event. We are having unstructured and structured sessions, labs, and a contest at the end of the day for the best Widget. We are … Continue reading →

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 we can announce some great news! dotMobi is acquiring the well-known Mowser service … Continue reading →

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 JavaScript: The tutorial describes how to create a translator widget, using a web service and … Continue reading →

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 the right idea on content adaptation, executed well on the technical side, but failed to … Continue reading →

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 a must, and I hope that everyone shows their support for it now, and … Continue reading →

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 should be a mobile portal of the same form as the early Yahoo directory when … Continue reading →

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 version of Techmeme Top 100. I am not sure though about the business model that … Continue reading →

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 community, here (at eZee) we are going through the pains related to this topic of … Continue reading →

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 writing about this, to show my support. I’m not going to regurgitate Luca’s point … Continue reading →

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 I enjoyed reading it. It is a design (high-level), well written, fun to read … Continue reading →

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 2007 (the Friday following the AjaxWorld West 2007 conference in Santa Clara) at the … Continue reading →

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 Elements and Attributes reference. From the XHTML Basic 1.1 spec: This revision, 1.1, supercedes … Continue reading →

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 May Be Too Ambitious, Let’s Call It Mobile 0.5 ceo