#mobile (304 links)
- Mosh: the mobile shell mosh.mit.edu
"Remote terminal application that allows roaming, supports intermittent connectivity, and provides intelligent local echo and line editing of user keystrokes." As recommended by Matthew Somerville.
We can no longer presume that the content accessed through mobile devices will also be viewed on them. With AirPlay, mobile device experiences can just as easily become 10 foot lean-back experiences, negating all your assumptions about display size and bandwidth. Responsive meda strategies will need to get more sophisticated to take this into account.
- HTML5 Touch Interfaces: SXSW extended version. slideshare.net
- Responsive Navigation Patterns | Brad Frost Web bradfrostweb.com
- Responsive News - Cutting the mustard blog.responsivenews.co.uk
A useful summary.
- Web First, Hybrid Second, Native Third peteroshaughnessy.com
- LukeW | Touch Gesture Reference Guide lukew.com
Contains: 1) an overview of the core gestures used for most touch commands 2) how to utilize these gestures to support major user actions 3) visual representations of each gesture to use in design documentation and deliverables 4) an outline of how popular software platforms support core touch gestures.
Presuming the bank means around just under a grand.
- Mobile Performance Manifesto | David Calhoun's Developer Blog davidbcalhoun.com
- mobile web - Disable pinch/zoom in Android 2.1 browser on HTC devices - Stack Overflow stackoverflow.com
"I have contacted HTC about this issue and they have informed me that they don't have support for the viewport meta tag at all and there is no other way to disable zoom." Thanks, HTC!
- 320 and up stuffandnonsense.co.uk
The ‘tiny screen first’ boilerplate extension.
- the understatement: Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support theunderstatement.com
The Android landscape looks a bit screwed.
- Mobile UI Patterns | UI that I Heart mobile-patterns.com
- Ripple Emulator Community ripple.tinyhippos.com
A multi-platform mobile environment emulator that runs in a web browser and is custom-tailored to HTML5 mobile application testing.
- blog · I Don’t Want to Do This Any More camendesign.com
- mschrag/speedlimit - GitHub github.com
SpeedLimit is a Leopard preference pane for limiting your network bandwidth to one of a couple different speeds — 768k DSL, Edge, 3G, and Dialup.
- LukeW | Data Monday: eReaders & eBooks lukew.com
- Hacker News | Mobile development with HTML5 news.ycombinator.com
The linked article is fairly useless but the comments on it are good; real-world dev stories.
- Sencha.io | Products | Sencha sencha.com
With Sencha.io Src don’t worry about scaling your image assets for the variety of mobile screens. Put a single high resolution image on your server, point your IMG tag to Src and let the cloud take care of the rest.
- A List Apart: Articles: Smartphone Browser Landscape alistapart.com
Good basis for a testing platform.
A small collection of CSS & JS files that can help you rapidly develop sites that look beautiful at any size
- 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.
- 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
- You Win, RIM! (An Open Letter To RIM's Developer Relations) blog.jamiemurai.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
- 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.