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The video for the Code4Lib 2010 talk, "Mobile Web App Design: Getting Started" is available (*big* hat tip to Kevin Clarke) from the Code4Lib 2010 schedule page: http://code4lib.org/conference/2010/schedule Or a direct link is: http://ia360701.us.archive.org/20/items/MobileWebAppDesignGettingStarted-MichaelDoran/mobileweb.mov -- Michael > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > Jonathan Rochkind > Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 5:04 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] mobile web design: resources? > > And Michael Doran's own Code4Lib conference presentation is also worth a > glance, if you like (or are neutral towards) videos instead of texts. > > Oops, except it looks like maybe video isn't available yet? What ever > happened to the video from the last conf? Or is it available but not linked > to from the presentation page? Well, anyway, here's powerpoints. > > http://code4lib.org/conference/2010/doran > ________________________________________ > From: Code for Libraries [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Doran, > Michael D [[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 4:46 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] mobile web design: resources? > > Hi Ken, > > > Does anyone else have a favorite book or three for this kind of work? > > If you're looking for web page and web app development vs. native app > development, you might want to consider these books: > > Mobile Design and Development: Practical concepts and techniques for > creating mobile sites and web apps > By Brian Fling > Publisher: O'Reilly Media > Released: August 2009 > http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596155452 > > Programming the Mobile Web > By Maximiliano Firtman > Publisher: O'Reilly Media > Released: July 2010 > http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596807795 > > I just bought copies of both, but won't get to read them until I return from > vacation in September, so can't provide any reviews yet... > > You'll also probably want to investigate some of the freely-available mobile > web development frameworks like iUI, iWebKit, and jQTouch. Note that some of > the documentation on the iPhone developers website focuses on *web* > development and is excellent. > > Also be aware that for cross-platform mobile testing and development, the > various mobile device SDKs (e.g. for iPhone, Android, Palm OS) come with > simulators. > > -- Michael > > # Michael Doran, Systems Librarian > # University of Texas at Arlington > # 817-272-5326 office > # 817-688-1926 mobile > # [log in to unmask] > # http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/ > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ken > > Irwin > > Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 11:55 AM > > To: [log in to unmask] > > Subject: [CODE4LIB] mobile web design: resources? > > > > Hi all, > > > > Forking off from the mobile-detection thread: > > > > Does anyone have any favorite books, articles, websites, etc. for the real > > "how to" business of building mobile-friendly websites. I have been > astonished > > at the apparent dearth of such books, and was delighted earlier this year to > > discover Jonathan Stark's Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and > JavaScript > > from O'Reilly (2010); he has an Android-oriented version of the book coming > > out soon too. Although the book contains a lot about designing web pages, > the > > app-building orientation of the book means that it gives short shrift to > > cross-platform compatibility. What I really want to find is a good guide to > > "building simple websites that will work on any smartphone, yea, verily, > even > > BlackBerry." (I don't know about anyone else, but I have found BB to not > > support a lot of things that work well on Droids and iThings.) > > > > For a shorter introduction, I belatedly discovered this article: > > Mobile Websites With Minimum Effort. > > Authors: Wisniewski, Jeff > > Source: Online; Jan/Feb2010, Vol. 34 Issue 1, p54-57, 4p > > > > The number-one thing that I learned from Stark's book is something that I > had > > struggled for the longest time with: why does my iThing make all web pages > > look tiny? The answer: iThings assume that all web pages are 980px wide, and > > you've got to disabuse them of that notion by the simple expedient of > defining > > a viewport in the page header: > > <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width"> > > (there are several variations of this, and knowing the key word helps to > find > > the rest.) > > > > Does anyone else have a favorite book or three for this kind of work? > > > > Ken