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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