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-----
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> Jonathan Rochkind
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> 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
> ________________________________________
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> Michael D [[log in to unmask]]
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> 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
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> 
> > -----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