[CODE4LIB] mobile web design: resources?
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
[CODE4LIB] Position Announcement: Electronic Resources Librarian
St Olaf College in Northfield, MN is seeking a full-time Electronic Resources Librarian to provide leadership to the Libraries in the rapidly developing realm of electronic collections and to manage the Libraries' electronic resources. This is a new position and the successful candidate will be involved in developing policies and procedures for electronic collections and will participate in the review and creation of e-resources workflows. Essential education and experience include an ALA-accredited master's degree in library or information science (or equivalent) and experience working with and managing electronic resources. Experience using a link resolver/link server, ERM, and knowledge of COUNTER/SUSHI is also desirable. The salary range will be in the 40's depending on qualifications, and the start date is flexible, though preferably in the next 2 months. Review of applications will begin immediately. For more details, a complete job description, or to apply, please visit: https://jobs.stolaf.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=51240 -- Sarah Beth Weeks Head Librarian of Technical Services and Systems St Olaf College Rolvaag Memorial Library 1510 St. Olaf Avenue Northfield, MN 55057 507-786-3453 (office)
[CODE4LIB] Announcing HydraCamp 2010 (Oct 04, 2010 - Oct 08, 2010)
Hi all, = Announcing HydraCamp 2010 MediaShelf is hosting the first HydraCamp October 4-8 in Minneapolis. Following from the recent Beta release of the Hydra framework and substantial interest in the Blacklight workshop at Code4Lib 2010, we've put together a training event that promises to knock your socks off. To find more information and register, visit http://hydracamp2010.eventbrite.com/. If you would like an official invitation to circulate within your organization, let us know and we will email one to you directly. (It seemed inappropriate to send the formal promo materials to this list.) == Here's the Skinny This week-long training event will focus on team-oriented development. Together with the creators of Hydra and some of the top Blacklight developers you will have the opportunity to build a Hydra head that is a complete solution for modeling, searching through and managing your unique content. This is also an opportunity for your development team to spend time together focusing solely on making Hydra and Blacklight work at your institution. Registration will give you advance access to training materials and screencasts so that you can hit the ground running and make the most of face time with the Hydra committers. Those who attend all five days will receive a certificate indicating that they have completed the course. === Hydra: Days 1-3 The first three days of the event will focus on Hydra and will include substantial coverage of collaborative development techniques, learning Ruby on Rails, understanding ActiveFedora, and creating Hydra heads based on the Hydrangea demo application. === Blacklight Solr: Days 4 5 The final two days of the event will focus on Blacklight. People who attend only these two days will learn how to install and customize Blacklight. For those attending all of HydraCamp, these two days will provide information on customizing the Blacklight-powered Search Discovery features in your Hydra heads. == Register Now Space is limited. Register at http://hydracamp2010.eventbrite.com/. Hope to see you there. Matt Zumwalt MediaShelf, LLC http://www.yourmediashelf.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] mobile web design: resources?
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
Re: [CODE4LIB] mobile web design: resources?
Hi Ken, Does anyone else have a favorite book or three for this kind of work? If you're looking for web page and web app development vs. native app development, you might want to consider these books: Mobile Design and Development: Practical concepts and techniques for creating mobile sites and web apps By Brian Fling Publisher: O'Reilly Media Released: August 2009 http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596155452 Programming the Mobile Web By Maximiliano Firtman Publisher: O'Reilly Media Released: July 2010 http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596807795 I just bought copies of both, but won't get to read them until I return from vacation in September, so can't provide any reviews yet... You'll also probably want to investigate some of the freely-available mobile web development frameworks like iUI, iWebKit, and jQTouch. Note that some of the documentation on the iPhone developers website focuses on *web* development and is excellent. Also be aware that for cross-platform mobile testing and development, the various mobile device SDKs (e.g. for iPhone, Android, Palm OS) come with simulators. -- Michael # Michael Doran, Systems Librarian # University of Texas at Arlington # 817-272-5326 office # 817-688-1926 mobile # do...@uta.edu # http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/ -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Ken Irwin Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 11:55 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] mobile web design: resources? 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
[CODE4LIB] C4L 2011 Info and Keynote Nominations
Hi Everyone, Just wanted to send out a note about the upcoming C4L 2011 in Bloomington, IN. We have locked in our dates for Feb 7-10, 2011 for the conference to be held at the Indiana Memorial Union. Feb 7 will be the date for the pre-conference sessions and the conference will run Feb 8-10. We will have more on registration and hotel details out by Dec 1, 2010. Ongoing right now is the keynote nomination process - we currently have nine nominees (http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2011_nominations_list) so keep those coming in as the cutoff is September 1, 2010. We are also looking for volunteers for the various committees that make C4L happen. We have started a list for volunteers on the wiki (http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2011_committees_sign-up_page) for the committees - please sign up and also subscribe to the google groups code4libcon (http://groups.google.com/group/code4libcon) if you are interested in the programming or other committees for C4L 2011. Thanks and we look forward to seeing everyone in Bloomington. Best, Robert The C4L 2011 Local Organizing Committee Chanitra Bishop Gary Charbonneau Diane Dallis Jon Dunn Mike Durbin Julie Hardesty Robert H. McDonald Mary Popp Vern Wilkins
Re: [CODE4LIB] mobile web design: resources?
And Michael Doran's own Code4Lib conference presentation is also worth a glance, if you like (or are neutral towards) videos instead of texts. Oops, except it looks like maybe video isn't available yet? What ever happened to the video from the last conf? Or is it available but not linked to from the presentation page? Well, anyway, here's powerpoints. http://code4lib.org/conference/2010/doran From: Code for Libraries [code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Doran, Michael D [do...@uta.edu] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 4:46 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] mobile web design: resources? Hi Ken, Does anyone else have a favorite book or three for this kind of work? If you're looking for web page and web app development vs. native app development, you might want to consider these books: Mobile Design and Development: Practical concepts and techniques for creating mobile sites and web apps By Brian Fling Publisher: O'Reilly Media Released: August 2009 http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596155452 Programming the Mobile Web By Maximiliano Firtman Publisher: O'Reilly Media Released: July 2010 http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596807795 I just bought copies of both, but won't get to read them until I return from vacation in September, so can't provide any reviews yet... You'll also probably want to investigate some of the freely-available mobile web development frameworks like iUI, iWebKit, and jQTouch. Note that some of the documentation on the iPhone developers website focuses on *web* development and is excellent. Also be aware that for cross-platform mobile testing and development, the various mobile device SDKs (e.g. for iPhone, Android, Palm OS) come with simulators. -- Michael # Michael Doran, Systems Librarian # University of Texas at Arlington # 817-272-5326 office # 817-688-1926 mobile # do...@uta.edu # http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/ -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Ken Irwin Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 11:55 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] mobile web design: resources? 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
Re: [CODE4LIB] mobile web design: resources?
The video for the Code4Lib 2010 talk, Mobile Web App Design: Getting Started is available (*big* hat tip to Kevin Clarke) from the Code4Lib 2010 schedule page: http://code4lib.org/conference/2010/schedule Or a direct link is: http://ia360701.us.archive.org/20/items/MobileWebAppDesignGettingStarted-MichaelDoran/mobileweb.mov -- Michael -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Jonathan Rochkind Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 5:04 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] mobile web design: resources? And Michael Doran's own Code4Lib conference presentation is also worth a glance, if you like (or are neutral towards) videos instead of texts. Oops, except it looks like maybe video isn't available yet? What ever happened to the video from the last conf? Or is it available but not linked to from the presentation page? Well, anyway, here's powerpoints. http://code4lib.org/conference/2010/doran From: Code for Libraries [code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Doran, Michael D [do...@uta.edu] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 4:46 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] mobile web design: resources? Hi Ken, Does anyone else have a favorite book or three for this kind of work? If you're looking for web page and web app development vs. native app development, you might want to consider these books: Mobile Design and Development: Practical concepts and techniques for creating mobile sites and web apps By Brian Fling Publisher: O'Reilly Media Released: August 2009 http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596155452 Programming the Mobile Web By Maximiliano Firtman Publisher: O'Reilly Media Released: July 2010 http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596807795 I just bought copies of both, but won't get to read them until I return from vacation in September, so can't provide any reviews yet... You'll also probably want to investigate some of the freely-available mobile web development frameworks like iUI, iWebKit, and jQTouch. Note that some of the documentation on the iPhone developers website focuses on *web* development and is excellent. Also be aware that for cross-platform mobile testing and development, the various mobile device SDKs (e.g. for iPhone, Android, Palm OS) come with simulators. -- Michael # Michael Doran, Systems Librarian # University of Texas at Arlington # 817-272-5326 office # 817-688-1926 mobile # do...@uta.edu # http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/ -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Ken Irwin Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 11:55 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] mobile web design: resources? 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
Re: [CODE4LIB] mobile web design: resources?
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/return-of-the-mobile-stylesheet Also this is the finest review of significant mobile device capabilities I've seen since 2003. Do take into account that we're back to the future with rampant nit-picky differences between browser engines: http://www.quirksmode.org/m/table.html -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Ken Irwin Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 9:55 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] mobile web design: resources? 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
