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A dozen or so slides to illustrate my "problems with the mobile web" presentation at Perth Bar Camp 2007, just visual cues

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Problems with the mobile web Nick Cowie nickcowie.com 30 June 2007 released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 licence
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Minimo Wapaka NetFront Novarra nWeb Bluelark Nokia S60 Openwave Obigo Doris Opera Mobile Picsel Palm Blazer SAS Pocket Internet Explorer Safari Palm™ Web Browser Pro PlayStation Portable Pixo Opera Mini NicheView Nokia Series 40 MobileLeap RocketBrowser JOCA Skweezer Thunderhawk Wapaka PocketWeb Webby Mobile WebViewer jB5 Novarra nWeb
Same browser different view
It feels like 999 again
So should you build separate sites for mobile browsers?
A few links W3C Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/ XHTML-MP specifications http://www.openmobilealliance.org/release_program/docs/browsing/v2_2-20061020-a/oma-wap-xhtmlmp-v1_1-20061020-a.pdf Wireless CSS specifications http://www.openmobilealliance.org/release_program/docs/browsing/v2_2-20061020-a/oma-wap-wcss-v1_1-20061020-a.pdf DotMobi Mobile Web Developer's Guide http://dotmobi.typepad.com/dotmobi/2007/03/dotmobi_mobile_.html Blue Flavor http://www.blueflavor.com/ Andy Moore - php to detect mobile phones http://www.andymoore.info/php-to-detect-mobile-phones/ Dev Mobi Community http://www.dev.mobi/

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Problems with the Mobile web Barcamp Perth 2007

  • 1.
  • 2. Problems with the mobile web Nick Cowie nickcowie.com 30 June 2007 released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 licence
  • 5.
  • 6.
  • 7.
  • 8.
  • 9. Minimo Wapaka NetFront Novarra nWeb Bluelark Nokia S60 Openwave Obigo Doris Opera Mobile Picsel Palm Blazer SAS Pocket Internet Explorer Safari Palm™ Web Browser Pro PlayStation Portable Pixo Opera Mini NicheView Nokia Series 40 MobileLeap RocketBrowser JOCA Skweezer Thunderhawk Wapaka PocketWeb Webby Mobile WebViewer jB5 Novarra nWeb
  • 11.
  • 12. It feels like 999 again
  • 13. So should you build separate sites for mobile browsers?
  • 14.
  • 15. A few links W3C Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/ XHTML-MP specifications http://www.openmobilealliance.org/release_program/docs/browsing/v2_2-20061020-a/oma-wap-xhtmlmp-v1_1-20061020-a.pdf Wireless CSS specifications http://www.openmobilealliance.org/release_program/docs/browsing/v2_2-20061020-a/oma-wap-wcss-v1_1-20061020-a.pdf DotMobi Mobile Web Developer's Guide http://dotmobi.typepad.com/dotmobi/2007/03/dotmobi_mobile_.html Blue Flavor http://www.blueflavor.com/ Andy Moore - php to detect mobile phones http://www.andymoore.info/php-to-detect-mobile-phones/ Dev Mobi Community http://www.dev.mobi/