Mobile Web, Page 9

Almost every month we have great topics and speakers at Mobile Portland, but every so often a meeting comes along that I personally cannot wait to see. This coming Monday, November 12th, we have…

Developing on the mobile (or pan-device) web is hard. Maybe too hard. Yeah, kind of too hard sometimes. My days are spent chasing down the vital new frameworks (maybe not so vital, really, in retrospect),…

I’ve recently had the great fortune to preview both Sara Wachter-Boettcher and Karen McGrane’s upcoming books on Content Strategy—Content Everywhere and Content Strategy for Mobile respectively. They’ve reminded me of something…

Since Facebook announced their “fully native” app, some speculation has centered on the idea that Apple may have made a native app a precondition for the upcoming integration of Facebook with iOS…

I recently did some research into the HTML that Facebook was using in the old version of its iOS app. More on that in a future post. In the meantime, I thought I’d share…

As long as I’m posting puzzles, riddle me this: what happens to the browser’s lookahead pre-parser if we find the holy grail of responsive images—an image format that works for all resolutions? What is…

For a few months now, I’ve been puzzling over the question of how to pick responsive images breakpoints. It has become a koan to me—no more answerable than the sound of one hand clapping. And…

30 Jan 2013 — This is not a stable specification. It will likely change. Do not use it in a production environment. See Peter’s comment below. 30 Jan 2013 — Per Nicholas Shanks’s suggestion,…

John Gruber mused today on why there is a disparity between the marketshare of Android and its share of web traffic. He theorized that “an awful lot of Android smartphones don’t really get used…