Re: [CODE4LIB] mobile web design: resources?

2010-08-26 Thread Karlsen, Jeffrey 
Another O'Reilly book, this one free:
http://building-iphone-apps.labs.oreilly.com/ (it says "iPhone Apps" but it's 
actually about websites optimized for iPhone)


Jeff Karlsen
Off-Campus Librarian
Sacramento City College
(916) 558-2583
http://www.scc.losrios.edu/jeff-karlsen.xml



|-Original Message-
|From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of
|Doran, Michael D
|Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 1:47 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:
|> 
|> (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?

2010-08-25 Thread Sam Kome 
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:

(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?

2010-08-25 Thread Doran, Michael D 
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:
> > 
> > (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?

2010-08-25 Thread Jonathan Rochkind 
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:
> 
> (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?

2010-08-25 Thread Doran, Michael D 
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:
> 
> (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?

2010-08-25 Thread Jonathan Rochkind 

This Code4Lib Journal article might be helpful:

http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/2055

Issue 8, 2009-11-23 


 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:

(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] mobile web design: resources?

2010-08-25 Thread Ken Irwin 
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:

(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