Asymco: Android Economics
Horace Dediu is starting a blog post series worth following. We need to understand how Google uses Android to make money and whether it is succeeding and if it’s not, why not. — Android economics: An...
View Article320 and Up: The ‘tiny screen first’ responsive boilerplate
What’s in the new ‘320 and Up’? Five CSS3 Media Query increments: 480, 600, 768, 992 and 1382px Design ‘atmosphere’ (colour, texture and typography) separated from layout Bootstrap styles for buttons,...
View ArticleGridpak: The Responsive Grid Generator
See the video and if you like what you see go to Gridpak web.
View ArticleAsymmetric Competition
Clever man Horace Dediu and his presentation on Mobilism 2012. You are listening to his podcast Critical Path, aren’t you?
View ArticledevicePixelRatio
I did some research around the window.devicePixelRatio property that all WebKit browsers, as well as Opera, support, and for once the news is good. This property’s definition makes sense, and it is...
View ArticleNative App vs. Mobile Web App: A Quick Comparison
Great overview of the topic by JT Mudge for Six Revisions. Obviously, it’s hard to be objective in this sort of comparison, because some strengths could quickly turn into weaknesses for your given app...
View ArticleMastering the Application Cache Manifest for Offline Web Apps and Performance
The application cache manifest (ACM) offers developers a way to make their apps work offline, reduce bandwidth consumption, and load pages much faster. Local storage and WebSQL databases are also...
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Add to Home Screen
Mr. Matteo Spinelli created nice add-to-home-screen script that may be useful to you if you have a mobile web app and want to let your users know, they could add it to their home screens. That then...
View ArticleFluid UI
Online mobile interface prototyping tool. Even if you are not in it, just try it to see what an HTML5 web app could do.
View ArticleWhy You Should Lead with Mobile Web Apps (Not Native Apps)
Article worth reading by Rob Banagale. Positioning your HTML5 mobile web developer as the primary domestique (flanked by UX design and UI design) is the best way to cut through the “wind resistance” of...
View ArticleWireframing Templates For Mobile Projects
As we are all going to do mobile first soon, these printable free templates will come in handy.
View ArticleRatchet: Prototyping iPhone apps with HTML, CSS and JavaScript
Looks usefull. Via @robinraszka
View ArticleLive and unplugged
The Economist: “In The World in 2013, which is published today, we predict that the internet will become a mostly mobile medium. Who will be the winners and losers?”.
View ArticleRyan Singer on Native vs. Web Views
Native views and web views are good at different things. Native is good for high fidelity interaction, animations, responding to gestures. However the native APIs are bad for designing “documents” —...
View Articlemmenu
A jQuery plugin for creating slick, app look-alike sliding menus for you mobile website with only one line of javascript.
View ArticleMessaging: Mobile’s Killer App
Ben Thompson writing for stratēchery: Think about commerce in the same time periods and contexts I recounted above: in the time of addresses and telephones, most commerce involved driving to the store....
View Article“Mobile is dead.”
Mobile is dead.… Web & apps are both wrong. — Matias Duarte, Head of Design at Android I like Matias’ point of view.
View ArticleHybrid Sweet Spot
David writing on Signal v. Noise about building mobile version of Basecamp: We implemented the main progress screen in the iPhone app in first a fully native version, then again in an HTML-backed...
View ArticleSmartphone Truths and Samsung’s Inevitable Decline
Ben Thompson says it: Utimately, though, Samsung’s fundamental problem is that they have no software-based differentiation, which means in the long run all they can do is compete on price. Perhaps they...
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