User-Agent Switcher for Safari 4
The User Agent Switcher plug-in for Firefox has been a GREAT add-on and we all love it. 1 year and 27 weeks ago Ronan wrote a really simple, but useful configuration file for it that is available here...
View ArticleMobile Web 2.0 "Dramatic Developments" from AT&T Really not all that...
Well, I'm sad to report that the folks over/up/down at AT&T wireless appear to not quite have their act together when it comes to what is the 'next big thing' in wireless. I had really been...
View ArticleVerizon Wireless opens up to the mobile developer community (for real)!
Late last month, Verizon Wireless held an open developer conference down here in San Jose. The conference was notable, important, and relevant to you for a number of reasons.read more
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Nexus One: Where is Android at?
With the announcement of the new GooglePhone, which promises to be the best Android device yet and by all early reports at least comparable with the iPhone 3GS, it seems appropriate to stop to take a...
View ArticleThe goMobi Challenge is on!
UPDATE:*** Given that it’s been a very hot summer this year, we decided everyone needed a few days to regroup for the goMobi Challenge. Since we want to see just how personalized you can make a goMobi...
View ArticleServer-side device detection used by 82% of Alexa top 100 sites
About 82% of the Alexa 100 top sites use some form of server-side device detection to serve content on their main website entry point. As you descend from the top 10 to the top 25 and top 100 sites the...
View ArticleFuture of the Mobile Web
Last week we hosted an event loftily entitled "The Future of the Mobile Web" at the Dublin Convention Centre.read more
View ArticleFuture of the Mobile Web Whitepaper
We're very happy to publish this paper arising from the The Future of the Mobile Web event held at the Dublin Convention Centre in January 2012. We covered a lot of ground and the paper is a serious...
View ArticleAnatomy of a mobile web experience: facebook.com
This is the second article in a series about how the major internet brands deliver their mobile web experience. The previous article is available here: Anatomy of a mobile web experience:...
View ArticleIntroducing Prism, a tool for testing device adaptation
Due to the multifarious nature of the mobile web, developers tend to spend a lot of time testing their work. If your site is designed to adapt to multiple different devices this effort is multiplied...
View ArticlePerformance is money, part 1: the end-user's wallet
Most web developers are familiar with the maxim that light is good: the idea that page performance matters to the end user experience is a truism at this point, backed up by a tremendous amount of...
View ArticleWhy Responsive Web Design is not always the best option for a mobile SEO...
There are a lot of misconceptions about what Google is saying about mobile SEO. First and foremost, Google doesn't mandate the use of Responsive Web Design (RWD) as best practice for SEO. Google...
View ArticleGlobal reach and dynamic page weight – is there a correlation?
Many reports on web page sizes issued in recent years point to the same conclusion: the web has a weight problem. The web seems to be gaining weight each year despite the fact that study after study...
View ArticleThe most common mistakes in smartphone sites according to Google
Google are paying ever more attention to the mobile market and so, developers pay attention when the Big G is making recommendations. Google recently published a document on the main mistakes people...
View ArticleUsability on the mobile Web: best practices and guidelines for designers and...
In this era of technology, we are continuously interacting with things so it is vital that these interactions form positive experiences for us. This is true not only for objects or products we can...
View ArticleA selection of easy-to-use tools to build a responsive site
There are various techniques for building mobile websites. Previously we wrote this article which covers some of these techniques, and which gives an overview to help developers to decide which...
View ArticleMobile and Web: restating our assumptions
Much like Max Cohen, the tortured mathematician-hero looking for order in chaos in the classic movie Pi, we all find ourselves constantly reevaluating our assumptions and thinking on the issues at the...
View ArticleFuture of the Mobile Web
Last week we hosted an event loftily entitled "The Future of the Mobile Web" at the Dublin Convention Centre.read more
View ArticleFIFA World Cup Mobile Site
As World Cup fever begins to take hold (even for those of us from countries that didn't qualify), I've inevitably found myself drawn into the competition, multi-screen style. Having access to an array...
View ArticleHTML5 support in mobile devices
Now that the HTML5 set of standards has reached Recommendation status (the W3C's way of saying it's now a published standard) we thought we'd take a look at how support for HTML5 has grown in shipping...
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