Category Archives: Mobile Web Development

Mobile 2.0 – Apps vs. Browser Based Web Services

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There is tremendous buzz currently around native apps and app stores thanks to the iPhone App phenomenon. This was especially noticeable  during a panel at Mobile 2.0 titled “Developers, Mobile Ecosystem Development & Third Party Services & Applications” The panelists, from Qualcomm, GetJar, O2, Sun and the Symbian Foundation, were all involved with their respective company’s App Store efforts.  While one can hardly blame players in the App store space for touting their vision, I  think it got a little … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web 174

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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 1825 mobile sites. Technology Smooth-On. smoothon.mobify.me Smooth-On makes a sells a wide variety of materials and tools for many types of mold making and casting. The firm’s web and mobile sites offer an array of FAQs, tutorials and videos of interest to both … Continue reading →

MFWS – Big Collection of Mobile Webmaster Tools

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MFWS.ro “My Favorite Web Site” is the largest collection of mobile friendly web, SEO and mobile utilities I’ve found to date. I don’t know about that blue on black color scheme though, it can be hard to read on some phones. There are some tools here that are hard to find on th mobile web including link checkers, ping, whois, traceroute, a page rank viewer, SEO keyword suggester, favicon maker, image re-sizer, video downloaders, a web based FTP client, MP3 … Continue reading →

How to Use the Bing API to Search the Mobile Web

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When Microsoft released the Bing API I speculated that it should be possible to use it to build a real Mobile Web search engine.  By “real” I mean one that would search exclusively for mobile optimized Websites.  I finally got around to trying it today, it was pretty easy, thanks to some some sample code I found on the Bing Developer Website, and it  works surprisingly well. I wrote my search engine in PHP5.  It uses Bing’s JSON API.  I … Continue reading →

Detect Mobile Vistors to Your Site With This Free Script

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Over at OSNews, Eugenia Loli-Queru has just updated the OSNews Mobile Detection Kit, a simple PHP script that analyzes visiting browser’s User-Agent headers and redirects them to the mobile or full version of your site. Scripts like this are a light weight/high performance alternative to more elaborate device detection packages like WURFL or Device Atlas. For blogs and news sites that have a mostly-text, “one size fits all” mobile site this script is all you need to send mobile visitors … Continue reading →

Mobify – The Designer’s Choice

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Handi Mobility‘s mobile design and hosting platform, Mobify.me has scored some significant wins lately. A number of web and product designers are using it to create mobile versions of their own sites. Here are a few of the design sites using Mobify.me Jeffrey Zeldman’s A List Apart, one of the top web design sites in traffic and influence. Web designer and Creative Director at Twitter, Douglas Bowman’s personal site, Stopdesign. Graphic and Web designer Veerle Pieter‘s blog. John Boardley’s I … Continue reading →

Watch Out For This Openwave Redirection Bug

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Back in the bad old days of WML,  redirection bugs with mobile browsers and WAP gateways were pretty common. Mobile web developers were urged to avoid using redirection.  If you think that’s no longer the case, think again.  I found what I believe is a nasty redirection bug with Sprint/Nextel’s iDen network. In spite of being really old technology and having a data rate of only 19.2 kbit/s, iDen is interesting to mobile web developers, at least in the U.S., … Continue reading →

DotMobi’s New WordPress Mobile Plugin

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Images courtesy of dotMobi dotMobi just released WordPress Mobile Pack, a plugin that creates a mobile version of your WordPress Blog.  There are at least a half a dozen plugins that claim to do the same thing so you might ask if we really need yet another.  I’ve been playing with a pre-release version of Mobile Pack  for the last week and believe that is the most complete, standards compiant and extensible yet.  It’s also very easy to install and … Continue reading →