Another O'Reilly book, this one free:
http://building-iphone-apps.labs.oreilly.com/ (it says "iPhone Apps" but it's actually about websites optimized for iPhone)


Jeff Karlsen
Off-Campus Librarian
Sacramento City College
(916) 558-2583
http://www.scc.losrios.edu/jeff-karlsen.xml



|-----Original Message-----
|From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
|Doran, Michael D
|Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 1:47 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
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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