Tag archive for ‘Handsets’
Testing mobile web pages in Firefox
The worst part of developing for the mobile web is ensuring that you’re accounting for the quirks of each of your target devices’ browsers. I often compare this to developing for the fixed web circa 1998– no matter how great your site looked in one browser, you still had to hack it to pieces to [...]
GZIP content for mobile devices
One of the easiest, most obvious ways to lower the data transfer footprint of your mobile apps is to compress data. For some reason, I still see mobile web decks that output XHTML-MP in plain text instead of very-easy-to-implement GZIP compression. I’ve implemented GZIP output on multiple J2EE projects with the help of Jayson Falkner’s [...]