dotMobi have a new "Web-based service that lets developers create mobile sites that appear correctly on all phones across all carriers".
To promote the service they are having a competition with the winners receiving 100 free goMobi accounts to create mobile sites for their clients and to get exposure through PR activities. You…
"…sign up at the […]

If you are creating mobile web sites (as many people increasing are) then you might like to take a look at Modernizr. It’s a Javascript library that allows you to easily detect if particular HTML5 feature exists or not.
If you wish to do the detection yourself you might also like to take a […]

If you develop for the mobile web then you should take a look at Tera-WURFL.
For those who don’t know, Wireless Universal Resource File (WURFL) is a database of phone capabilities. It can be used to do things like redirecting mobile visitors to the mobile version of your site, detecting the type of streaming video that […]

Taptu have just released the 2nd of their Mobile Touch Web Reports, this time for February 2010, concentrating on shopping and services. There are currently 83,300 mobile touch web sites for shopping and services and over 40% of these are related to business and real estate.

The report press release also provides some great recommendations for […]

The paper version of Computing, a UK publication, has an interesting article on deploying mobile business apps (I’ll add the link once it also becomes available online).
Nick Jones, VP of Gartner, is quoted as saying..
"Targeting your user base correctly may mean that a cheaply developed application that covers more of your customer base would be […]

There’s a thought provoking post at Little Springs Design on ‘Are you wasting your mobile advertising dollars?’ The gist of it is that too many mobile adverts end up pointing to content (sites) that don’t render well or have little to do with the original advert.
I thought about this a while ago when I was […]

Last month I posted on mobile browser differences. Today, Quirksmode have declared "There is no WebKit on Mobile". Furthermore, "All 10 mobile WebKits I’ve identified so far are subtly or wildly different."
This is disappointing. Together with the current diversification going on in Widget runtimes, this means we haven’t learnt the lessons of native mobile development. […]

If you are a mobile web developer you might be interested in quirksmode’s mobile browser compatibility tables. There’s a great table of browser features vs compatibility with Opera, Opera Mini, S60 Webkit, Netfront, BlackBerry, Internet Explorer mobile and Skyfire.
My initial thoughts are that this table doesn’t cover everything yet there are still significant differences. Also, […]