Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Found On The Mobile Web #194

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Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly WAP Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com mobile portal and WapReview mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 2063 mobile sites. Technology Virus Removal Guides comprolive.com/rem/ Mobile friendly side listing common Windows PC virus with guides for their removal. Content: Usability: Technology/Mobile/OS/Brand Specific/Microsoft WM6Software.net www.wm6software.net/mobile.php Collection of free app and games downloads for Windows mobile devices. Lacks a search function but … Continue reading →

Opera Mobile 10 S60 Updated – Inline Editing Gets T9 and Symbol Modes

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(Above) Editing Options in Opera Mobile Beta 2 There’s  a new version of  Opera Mobile 10 available for S60 3rd and 5th edition phones.  This release, dubbed “Opera 10 Beta 2 Update” adds full native editing and entry modes to in-line editing in web pages and the Opera Mobile GUI. Previous Opera Mobile 10 releases had two edit modes; “in-line” (image, top left) where you could enter text directly into fields on the screen but were limited to using triple … Continue reading →

Does Your FaceBook Fan Page Work In Mobile Browsers?

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Do you use a  FaceBook Fan Page to promote your company, website or band? Have you tried visiting it with a mobile phone? There’s a bug in Facebook’s mobile browser detection and redirection logic that causes many Fan Pages to return a 404 “Not Found” error when visited with most mobile browsers. This bug doesn’t affect the iPhone, Android and WebOS browsers which are not redirected and get the desktop version of the fan page,  but S60 Webkit, Opera Mini, … Continue reading →

New MySpace “Middle Web” Site – Video Support Still Limited

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Earlier this month, MySpace started delivering a new version of their mobile web site, m.myspace.com, to Android, Palm WebOS and iPhone users (image, above).  The new site is a typical example of what used to be called an iPhone Web App.  It features a single column design, optimized for screens 320 px wide and up with JavaScript used for incremental page updates. Middle web page sizes can be quite large compared to mobile sites, which need to be less than … Continue reading →

Mobile Design: “Full Site” Links Need To Be Thematically Consistent Too!

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I was reading Twitter the other day using Mobile Tweete in Opera Mini 5 on my N95.  This was at the start of the “Google Phone” ruckus.  I saw a tweet by @ScottSeaborn linking to some of the first published photos of the Nexus One on Gizmodo.  Clicking the link took me to a mobile formatted page “powered by Quattro”. The photos on the mobile page were so tiny that I got no sense of what the phone actually looked … Continue reading →

Ars Technica Mobile Edition Launches

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Ars Technica which is Latin for “art of technology” is a big tech news site covering computing, science and gaming with breaking news items and in depth articles. The recently launched Ars Technica mobile edition includes most of the full site’s content including its dedicated Apple, Microsoft, Open Source, Gaming, Business and Tech Policy sections.  The only part of the site that isn’t mobilized is the forums which unfortunately is where the comments on articles are. The site’s modest 25 … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #193

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Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly WAP Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com mobile portal and WapReview mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 2057 mobile sites. Search/Local/City and Campus Guides Qype UK m.qype.co.uk/mobile Similar to Yelp but for the UK only, Qype UK offers a directory of user generated reviews for local businesses such as restaurants, stores and hotels. Again like Yelp, Qype is a community … Continue reading →

Problems With Bookmarklets in Opera Mini 5 Beta 2

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Update: These issues were fixed in Opera Mini 5 Final The latest beta of Opera Mini 5 is my new browser of choice. On my Nokia N95-3 it’s fast and stable and offers great rendering and a best in class feature set including tabbed browsing, bookmark synchronization and a choice of desktop or fit to width formatting. But I’m also a big user of bookmarklets, snippets of JavaScript stored in a browser bookmark.  Bookmarklets provide all sorts productivity enhancing features. … Continue reading →