Tag Archives: HTML5

Samsung Bada’s Dolfin Browser

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Here’s a look at the capabilities of the Dolfin browser on the Samsung Wave Bada handset that I got at the Bada Developer Day in San Francisco on Tuesday. Dolfin is a WebKit based browser.  Webkit is used as the basis of the majority of smartphone browsers including those from Nokia, Palm, Android, Apple and soon RIM.  Although all these browsers are based on the open source Webkit core, as PPK points out, “There is no Webkit on Mobile”, instead … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #218

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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 2260 mobile sites. Shopping – Autos Volkswagen m.vw.com Volkswagen of America’s attractive mobile site has photos and specs of all VW models, a dealer locator and free ringtones and wallpapers. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory Content: Usability: Portals IWantInfo.mobi iwantinfo.mobi Mobile web portal with … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #214

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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 2246 mobile sites. City and Campus Guides nextstop www.nextstop.com/m2/ Nextstop describes itself as a “…community effort to build a catalog of all the best things to do, places to go, and experiences to try anywhere in the world” It’s a mobile webapp for … Continue reading →

Mobile Firefox Best On The W3C’s New Mobile Browser Test

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The W3C’s Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group has released their Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers Version 2.  It’s at www.w3.org/2010/01/wctmb2/. This is a forward looking test that is designed to test HTML 5 capabilities that will drive the next generation of mobile Webapps including XmlHttpRequest, <canvas>, <input type=’date’>, contenteditable, Appcache,  <video>, <audio>, Web Workers, localStorage, sessionStorage and @font-face. Most mobile browsers don’t support many of these capabilities yet. I tried the new test with all the mobile browsers … Continue reading →

Bookworm – O’Reilly’s Mobile Web eBook Reader

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Bookworm (bookworm.oreilly.com) is an open source project to create a  free online eBook reader. O’Reilly Publishing contributes support and hosting for Bookworm. The Bookworm desktop and mobile ( m.bookworm.oreilly.com) web sites let you read electronic books in the epub format, an open source specification for xml based electronic books. Epub is fast becoming the most popular standard for ebooks. The  Sony Reader and popular eReader apps like  Stanza for the iPhone, Windows and Mac and FBReader for Windows, Mac and … Continue reading →

Opera University Tours

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Yesterday I went to a talk on HTML5 that Opera Software presented at San Francisco State University as part of its University Tours program. There were about 30 other attendees, almost all of them students. Opera’s Anne van Kestern was the main speaker who spoke on HTML5 which is now a draft W3C standard and has partial support in all the major browsers except IE. HTML5 has a lot of cool stuff like the open standards video player built into … Continue reading →