Category Archives: MobileWeb

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 to it that you can find in the blogosphere, Ander's response is here, and … Continue reading →

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 Offline, now Google Gears, next Mobile… The future of the (mobile) web applications will … Continue reading →

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 development issues Site layout design Media formats Progressive enhancement – the future … Continue reading →

The Mobility Resources Mobile Web FAQ has been updated… (I'll announce “updates to the FAQ”, when major or considerable changes are done). ceo

The Dojo offline toolkit allows for web applications to work offline. It consists of a JavaScript library (bundled within the web page) and a ~300K download with the logic to cache a web application's user-interface for offline use. How is … Continue reading →

Russ Beattie has introduced Mowser web content translation technology for mobile web. Neat… there is so much to be done in this space of “proper web content translation for mobile web”… I tackled this problem many years ago, on a … Continue reading →

I started putting together a Mobile Web FAQ with focus on design, development and resources, including answers to questions such as what is the Mobile Web, Widgets and Mobile Widgets, future and other. This FAQ should in theory complement Ajit's … Continue reading →

The dotMobi Mobile Web Developers Guide, written by Brian Fling of Blue Flavor, is now available.

Brian did a wonderful job with his presentation on Mobile Web development at SXSW Interactive which was titled “Everything you always wanted to know about the mobile web… but were afraid to ask”. Both content and how he presented were … Continue reading →

Jason at Paxmodept has created a (basic at the moment) test suite to help investigate Javascript and DOM support/capabilities in mobile browsers. See his announcement. ceo

From the W3C web site: …The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0. This document defines the tests that provide the basis for making a claim to be … Continue reading →

Are you aware of the W3C Web Integration Compound Document (WICD), and its mobile version, the WICD Mobile 1.0? The WICD Mobile 1.0 specification is going to be a very important piece moving forward for Mobile Web and mobile browsing, … Continue reading →

I haven't expressed much about how I feel about .mobi – months ago I wrote a piece about it, but never finished editing it… Today Carlo wrote a very good piece on .mobi, which I am going to piggyback… .mobi … Continue reading →

[Via W3C] The W3C Mobile Web Initiative Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0. “The draft describes how to produce Web content and Web sites intended for delivery to mobile and small-screen … Continue reading →