Archive for the 'Mobile' Category
Posted March 30th, 2010 in Front-end code, Mobile.
I came across a situation recently where a JavaScript widget didn’t ‘work’ on the iPhone. It did technically work, but without knowing about two-fingered scrolling (and when you need to use it), it didn’t appear to work. So how do you differentiate the iPhone (and other touch based devices) from a regular browser?
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Posted November 1st, 2009 in Front-end code, Mobile, Operating Systems, Web APIs.
I’ve just gotten back from a great day at the Stackoverflow Dev Day, I didn’t take my usual copious notes, but I thought a flavour of proceedings would be good to get down. For those who don’t know me, I have to add the caveat that I’m not a…
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Posted September 10th, 2008 in Accessibility, Mobile.
The new iPod nanos (4th generation) now have speech-enabled menus, so you don’t have to be able to see the screen to operate it. This is obviously a boon for the visualy impaired, but with my old iPod I quite often used it from my pocket, or whilst driving. Could…
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Posted June 19th, 2007 in Front-end code, Mobile.
I’m not sure whether to put this down to an issue with my (mobile) ISP, or whether it should count against using XHTML sent as application/xhtml+xml? I’ve recently found that even a well authored site using valid XHTML can display as an XML error in browsers that support XML mime types.
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Posted December 31st, 2006 in Browsers, Mobile.
I’ve recently moved to using GMail as my primary interface, and I noticed a new mobile feature. The mobile access for GMail is much better than the one I installed on my hosting, which frankly was unusable on my phone despite an excellent mobile browser. Then I tried the Symbian GMail client.
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Posted October 21st, 2006 in Browsers, Mobile.
Mobile browsing has been, frankly, rubbish so far. But now there are two new mobile browsers that confound the generally dire opinion of mobile browsers.
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