MobileWeb

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 mobile web and adaptation. Michael Yuan has been writing a series on JSF and mobile … Read more

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 here, and you should go read how Vodafone UK is abusing its position. I totally … Read more

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 book, that provides Cameron’s insights and general strategies on mobile web design, while also providing … Read more

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 Microsoft campus in Mountain View (following an OpenAjax Alliance face-to-face meeting to take place at … Read more

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 version 1.0. In this new revision, several new features have been incorporated into the language … Read more

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

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 Mike Rowehl's response is here, both who are mobility practitioners who emphasize that Mobile AJAX … Read more

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 to move toward local; same concepts, different mechanisms — for mobile web it will … Read more

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 Web design philosophy The Nokia Web Browser is industry standards compliant, with support for: HTML … Read more

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