My first article for 2011, meet the jQuery Mobile framework. This article provides an introduction to the jQuery Mobile framework. Learn the basics of the framework and how to write a functional mobile web application user interface with minimal or no JavaScript code…
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 Mobile (5 or…
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 Who is using…
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 having food and…
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 that provides content…
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 some Ajax techniques.…
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 execute on the…
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 through their evolution.…
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 it was still…
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 Russell is going…
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