IPhone
Mobile Website design & development guidelines
Nov 3rd
Like it or hate it, the Apple iPhone has ushered in the age of the “Smartphone” which in turn has delivered mobile web-browsing to the masses. The mobile browser, whilst now broadly quite capable (at least on leading platforms), has introduced a slightly different set of requirements in terms of design and development of Websites.
Many, many designers, developers and others have written articles on how to design and/or develop for the mobile browser. I am aiming to summarise what I have learnt from several sources alongside my experience an opinion in a (hopefully) relatively quick and simple way
Email client rendering engines – useful information for testing HTML email layouts
Jun 21st
As every web-developer knows, testing your Web pages on the myriad of popular Web browsers can often be a horrible experience…and if there’s one thing which is even worse than testing web pages in different browsers, it surely has to be testing HTML Email layout in multiple Email clients!
A simple example of navigator.geolocation.watchPosition()
Apr 27th
As I mentioned in my previous post about the new/upcoming navigator.geolocation standard, I have been experimenting with Geo location on my IPhone so I thought I’d share some of that with you in case it helps anyone out. My example is very simple and is intended to show how you can use the JavaScript navigator.geolocation.watchPosition() More >
How to get an accurate Geo location from Apple IPhone using navigator.geolocation.watchPosition
Apr 27th
Anyone who’s tried using navigator.geolocation on a fixed-line (i.e. not mobile) device will know that it’s not too useful, usually at home my location is given as New York, USA when in fact I am in Oxfordshire in the UK! So, I turned to my IPhone and had a bit of a hard time at first trying to get an accurate position reading from navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(). My findings here refer to using JavaScript in Safari on Apple IPhone (IPhone 3G with OS 3.1.3 on O2′s GSM network in the UK).