This Code4Lib Journal article might be helpful:
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/2055
Issue 8, 2009-11-23 <http://journal.code4lib.org/issues/issue8>
library/mobile: Tips on Designing and Developing Mobile Web Sites
Mobile applications can support learning by making library resources
more ubiquitous, by bringing new users to the library through increased
accessibility to the resources libraries offer, and by creating a new
way to enhance connections between patrons and libraries. This increased
use of mobile phones provides an untapped resource for delivering
library resources to patrons. The mobile Web is the next step for
libraries in providing universal access to resources and information.
This article will share Oregon State University (OSU) Libraries’
experience creating a mobile Web presence and will provide key design
and development strategies for building mobile Web sites.
by Kim Griggs, Laurie M. Bridges, Hannah Gascho Rempel
Ken Irwin wrote:
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
