Increase Mobile Web Discovery with Link Relationships
In HTML, there is a very simple way to advertise a relationship between a desktop web page (or site) and the equivalent page (or site) on the mobile web. Very few desktop web sites implement this...
View ArticleMobile MIME Types
Mobile MIME types identify the format of mobile web content: textual mobile markup documents, binary viewable and playable content like ringtones, wallpaper and videos and binary executable mobile...
View ArticleMobile META Tags
Mobile META tags can be used in XHTML-MP and HTML markup to tag the document as optimized for mobile devices. Mobile search engines, mobile browsers and even desktop web browsers look for mobile META...
View ArticleHow to Send SMS via Email
It’s easy to use email to send SMS messages to a mobile phone. SMS via email is a useful way to send alerts to yourself. (I use it to notify myself of e-commerce orders.) This method of sending SMS...
View ArticleFall Term Classes at PCC
My two Fall 2009 classes at Portland Community College in Portland, OR are available for registration. Mobile Web Development Mobile Web Development is an introductory class for web developers and...
View ArticleSeeking a Technical Reviewer for Mobile Web Development Book
I found a talented technical reviewer for my forthcoming Mobile Web Development book schedule for release in December 2009. Thanks for your interest!
View ArticleInterviewing Real-World Mobile Web Developers, Know Anyone?
I am seeking interviews with real-world Mobile Web developers for a series of articles about what it really takes to build and deploy a high-traffic, content adaptive and standards-compliant Mobile Web...
View ArticleBeginning Smartphone Web Development is at press!
Beginning Smartphone Web Development, my first Mobile Web development book, is completed, at press and expected in bookstores by December 31, 2009. The book is published by Apress as a part of their...
View ArticleHTML, XHTML or XHTML-MP for Smartphone Web Sites?
A reader from Minnesota recently emailed me to ask which markup language is best used for a Mobile Web site targeting smartphones: My company is building an academic iPhone application (showing...
View ArticleHow to View HTTP Request Headers sent by a Mobile Browser
Capturing HTTP request headers from Web browsers on mobile devices gives you the information required to simulate the device in Firefox or a mobile device or browser emulator. Here is a handy tool that...
View ArticleStreaming Windows Media Audio to Mobile Devices
A reader recently wrote in from the UK, remarking on the lack of support for streaming Windows Media audio formats in mobile devices, especially smartphones. He attributed the poor support levels to...
View ArticleTargeting smartphone apps for mass-market users @ FierceDeveloper.com
I am newly a mobile development contributor to Fierce Wireless. An excerpt from my first article, Targeting Smartphone Apps for Mass-Market Users, published today, is below. Check out the full article...
View ArticleIntroducing Vinny and Gemma
We welcomed our twins Vincenzo (Vinny) and Gemma into the world on March 11, 2010! I am taking a short maternity leave from the blog to get to know our new little ones. I am still responding to email...
View ArticleSummer Mobile Web Development Class at PCC
My Mobile Web Development course returns to Portland Community College. this summer. Students learn how to build web sites for browsers on all kinds of mobile phones. We focus on standards-based mobile...
View ArticleSpeaking at Portland Code Camp 2010 – Tomorrow!
I am speaking at Portland Code Camp 2010 tomorrow. I’ll be discussing Standards-Based Mobile Web Development with a focus on smartphone browsers and the latest mobile web technologies (i.e. HTML5). My...
View ArticleBack from Maternity Leave – What’s Next?
Learn the Mobile Web is back in action! I’m officially finished with maternity leave. I have planned plenty of shiny new goodness for the blog, including: A backlog of mobile web development articles...
View ArticleHTML5 and the Mobile Web
HTML5 is the next major revision of HTML. It’s a really big deal, especially for mobile browsers and on-the-go Web users. If the main features of the latest HTML5 draft specification are present in the...
View ArticleHow to Customize the MeeGo Tablet UX – Session from MeeGo Conference 2011
With my Intel product planner hat on, I spoke at MeeGo Conference 2011 in San Francisco, CA this week to discuss how to customize the open-source MeeGo Tablet UX. I covered three new APIs in the tablet...
View ArticleThe Evolving Mobile Ecosystem and MeeGo – talk at Portland MeeGo Network
I spent this evening with colleagues at Portland MeeGo Network at Kells in downtown Portland, OR, where I gave a brief introduction to the mobile software and hardware ecosystem and especially, how...
View ArticleOSCON 2012: Design and Debug HTML5 Apps for Devices with RIB and Web...
I gave Intel‘s sponsored session at OSCON 2012 today. OSCON happens right here at home in Portland, OR, enabling the Intel folks to bounce around the sessions and the ever-important hallway track. My...
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