Mobile Web Strategies Blog

HTML5 MISCONCEPTION Nowadays any new browser capability or web application technique found across the web is labeled as HTML5 and that is not true. Michael Mahemoff said that HTML5 has become a brand that represents a new type of web application rather than the specification itself. In order to learn HTML5 is very important to understand what really HTML5 is. It is common nowadays hear CSS transitions, web sockets, geolocation, SVG, CSS @font-face all mentioned under the HTML5 banner and label all under HTML5 "brand".  In the specification none of those mentioned are found for the simple reason that they either belong to the CSS3 specification or other API specification within the WWW Consortium. Websites are and will be built with a combination of HTML5, next-generation APIs, JavaScript and CSS3, which means that as a designer or developer the difference between those technologies must be clear and how they fit together should be understood. What is really HTML5? ...

REAL USABILITY MATTERS - Usability is one of the single most important thing you can do to ensure success and money. Any design should have the user in mind, however when we talk about small screens this is a must. The Google presentations  What is a mobile site and why do you need one?  try to give business people and even developers the awareness that mobile sites nowadays is a must - but if they are build without the user in mind there is not use to have it. Their case studies are interesting. Mobile-friendly web apps help businesses: To connect with their customers Increase Revenues Reduce Costs because when sites are optimised and user-friendly you give your customers means to get what they want instead of wonder around, get tired and go to your competitor. The catch is that the only way to accomplish that is to invest in Usability. IT IS ALL ABOUT USABILITY. Improved usability makes you INCREASE YOUR MARKET SHARE - the like effect...

This is a Slideshow RETHINKING THE MOBILE WEB by by Yiibu Author: Bryan Rieger (September 10, 2010)

There are many different ways to deploy content to devices for developers. The main distinctions between content that runs inside the device’s web browser, just like any website, and the content that runs as an application on the device. Mobile applications give you a lot of benefits. MOBILE WEB APP 1. Give access to device features and sensors that are not normally available to websites. These are things like camera, offline, storage, and information on the device like what is in the phone’s contact list. 2. All the major platforms tend to have very different ways to build mobile applications. They each require their own tools and languages to deploy applications and create content form them. A good example is Xcode and Objective-C for building iOS applications, and Eclipse and Java for building Android applications.