#mobile (321 links)
- ignore the code: Prototypes ignorethecode.net
- wahwah.fm | the music around you wahwah.fm
An upcoming music service, based on your smartphone. With wahwah.fm, you listen to your music and broadcast it at the same time.
Via tomtaylor.
- LukeW | Mobile Context Revisited lukew.com
Mobile context has been overblown. It is device capabilities and constraints plus the fact that mobile devices are with you anywhere and everywhere. But those factors are important enough that they force us to rethink Web design.
In his High Performance Mobile presentation at Mobilism in Amsterdam, Netherlands Steve Souders discussed the importance of performance on the Web, why it is even more important on mobile, and a set of emerging best practices for faster mobile Web site.
rmurphey: great summary of web vs native mobile apps and where @phonegap fits in http://t.co/vhaTVWu /via @touramobile
- HTML5 Rocks - "Mobifying" Your HTML5 Site html5rocks.com
- Using Media Queries in the Real World » Broken Links broken-links.com
Well, this bodes well for the PlayBook app ecosystem. NB: it doesn't.
"Global shipments of smartphones and tablets surpassed shipments of desktop PCs and notebooks in Q42010. This gap is expected to increase over the next few years." Blimey.
- Mobile Emulators and Simulators - The ultimate guide to mobile developers | Mobile Web Programming mobilexweb.com
Be nice if everyone could agree on a standard for doing device emulation, wouldn't it.
Notes on BlackBerry's Webkit-based PlayBook browser called, er, "Browser".
Built on WebPagetest, provides "HTTP waterfall chart, a Page Speed report, connection info, and screenshots" for iOS and Android devices.
- Media Queries mediaqueri.es
A collection of responsive web designs
Via thegingerbloke.
- The monetisation fetish - QuirksBlog quirksmode.org
"This monetisation argument is the fetish of the current age. Unfortunately it is utter and complete rubbish. The fundamental problem, as I calculated months ago, is that there’s just not enough money in the app store economy to support a meaningful number of independent developers." Calculations feel rather back-of-envelope but voices of dissent are useful.
- Adactio: Journal—One web adactio.com
This is why I’m saying that most of the time, creating a separate mobile website is simply a cop-out. It’s a tacit acknowledgement that the regular “desktop” site is beyond help. The cop-out is creating an optimised experience for one subset of users while abandoning others to their bloated fate.
- Desert discs: how mobile phones are at the root of Saharan music | Music | guardian.co.uk guardian.co.uk
However eclectic your music collection, it would still need to go some way to match the sheer range of tracks shared by villagers swapping songs via Bluetooth and Sim card in the Sahara. Bollywood classics, Algerian Rai, Kuduro, French ballads – this is just a sample grab of the kind of sounds doing the rounds there, many of which can be found on Music from Saharan Cellphones, a mixtape put together by Portland-based blogger Christopher Kirkley.
An App for debugging web apps on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices.
Via paul.irish.
- Hardboiled CSS3 Media Queries | For A Beautiful Web forabeautifulweb.com
These hardboiled CSS3 Media Queries are empty placeholders for targeting the devices and attributes I’m interesting in making responsive designs for right now.
- Combining meta viewport and media queries - QuirksBlog quirksmode.org
"If you want to make your websites ready for mobile, it’s best to combine <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width"> with width media queries. That will give your site the optimal width (as determined by the device vendor, who really ought to know), and your site will look the better for it."
- The slow death of Dopplr | Technology | guardian.co.uk guardian.co.uk
Boo. True. Sad. Can't blame people for selling, mind.
- Adactio: Journal—A responsive mind adactio.com
The choice is not between using media queries and creating a dedicated mobile site; the choice is between using media queries and doing nothing at all.
- Mobile Graded Browser Support | jQuery Mobile jquerymobile.com
Riffing on the excellent Yahoo GBS.
- Combining media queries and JavaScript - QuirksBlog quirksmode.org
A riposte from PPK. Sounds like it's feasible but bloody hard work.
- Nick Lansley's Technology for Tesco.com Blog: Who are Ribot, and why did we make them our mobile partner? techfortesco.blogspot.com
Well done, Ribot.
A mobile web app that connects music to places. Point your mobile browser to m.spotisquare.com. You can just use Spotisquare to check-in on Foursquare, but it also connects Foursquare venues with Spotify playlists. When you find a venue that has a Spotify playlist, you can listen to it in Spotify, and also add your own songs to it.
Via chrisdodo.
- Technical Note TN2262: Preparing Your Web Content for iPad developer.apple.com
Platform-specific considerations for web content in Safari on iPhone OS devices, with specific information for iPad.
- KrazyDad » Blog Archive » Mayor of the North Pole krazydad.com
Last Sunday, while checking into the Hill Street Cafe in Burbank using the foursquare iPhone app, I idly wondered, “Can I become the mayor of the North Pole?” So I tried checking into a nearby 7-Eleven. It worked. I tried the Griffith Observatory about 5 miles away. It worked. I tried Disneyland, which is about an hour away. It didn’t work, but I now had an afternoon hacking project.
- QuirksBlog: The iPhone obsession quirksmode.org
"The iPhone has become an obsession. If we don’t pay attention, we’ll have a mobile web that only works on the iPhone. And then we’ll have the real mobile web that wasn’t made by us and doesn’t give a shit about web standards and best practices." Overstating things somewhat but still a useful reminder.
- Fixing 3 Mobile Broadband E168G on Snow Leopard » James Whittaker jameswhittaker.com
- Test Mobile Applications on Real Devices - Perfecto Mobile perfectomobile.com
- QuirksBlog: Apple is not evil. iPhone developers are stupid. quirksmode.org
"Apple is not evil. iPhone developers are stupid. Their problems with the App Store approval process are entirely their own fault and they deserve no commiseration." Rather extreme viewpoint from PPK (with some merit, though).
- Correct way to handle mobile browsers | Surfing in Kansas ericholscher.com
This has lead to a problem that a lot of internet sites face, and I haven't found a good solution to the problem: how do I redirect users to a mobile site?
- QuirksBlog: There is no WebKit on Mobile quirksmode.org
"All 10 mobile WebKits I’ve identified so far are subtly or wildly different." Bugger.
- Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript building-iphone-apps.labs.oreilly.com
- Google and Best Buy Partner on Mobile Applications readwriteweb.com
- High Performance Web Sites :: Mobile Gmail and async script loading stevesouders.com
With mobile on my mind, I was blown away by the awesome performance tips in this blog post: Gmail for Mobile HTML5 Series: Reducing Startup Latency. This post hits on the main point of my recent book - the impact of loading JavaScript. This is the #1 performance issue for today’s web apps.
"How about you make something that would take away that hassle, but still let us send postcards to the people we love - printed objects that would arrive through the letterbox and make those people smile? Hmm?" Please do this, Royal Mail. Or someone else?
Via headlessness.