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Developing mobile sites - Webmaster Tools Help
Developing mobile sites
We believe the mobile web is becoming increasingly important, but it’s not always easy to know where to start. So, we’ve put together this page of tools available for developers of mobile content, to help ease the way.
Mobile markup
Mobile web pages come in several markup dialects, including WML, XHTML Basic, XHTML MP and cHTML. WML is an older standard that is supported by many browsers, and still widely used in some markets. cHTML is used primarily in Japan, but also some parts of Europe. XHTML Basic and XHTML MP are almost identical subsets of HTML, used globally, but particularly in North America and Europe. XHTML dialects are the newest and most expressive of markups, and are gaining usage. XHTML Basic 1.1 and XHTML MP 1.2 are a good choice for new development, but your choice will vary according to your target market.
Validation
Valid pages are likely to render correctly on more mobile devices.
Published mobile markup standards include:
Validators include the following:
- Mobile-friendly XHTML Validator (W3C)
- Mobile-readiness checker (.mobi)
- mobileOK Basic Checker (TAW)
- WuRML (shadowplay.net)
Emulation
You may be confident that your page is valid XHTML or valid WML, but are you certain that it’s going to look right on a real phone screen? Use an emulator to test your page, and avoid the hassle of buying them all.
- Phone Simulator (Openwave)
- Mobile emulator (.mobi)
- i-mode emulator (DoCoMo)
- User-Agent Switcher (Firefox plug-in)
- wmlbrowser (Firefox plug-in)
- XHTML Mobile Profile (Firefox plug-in)
Google resources
Other resources
Follower Wonk: Cool stuff with Twitter bios, stats, and such
Twitter bio search
Twitter user comparison
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Follower Wonk: Cool stuff with Twitter bios, stats, and such
Twitter bio search
Twitter user comparison
via Follower Wonk: Cool stuff with Twitter bios, stats, and such.
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WordPress › Picbox « WordPress Plugins
Posted by admin in Wordpress Plugins on January 24th, 2010
Picbox is a javascript image viewer that tries to be a bit nicer than all the other lightbox clones, and is designed so it handles larger images with ease. It will automatically scale down images to the browser’s screen size, which can then be zoomed into and moved around.
Hackvertor Encoding tool
Hackvertor Encoding tool
via Hackvertor.
IxEdit - DOM-scripting without coding
IxEdit is a JavaScript-based interaction design tool for the web. With IxEdit, designers can practice DOM-scripting without coding to change, add, move, or transform elements dynamically on your web pages. Especially, IxEdit must be useful to try various interactions rapidly in the prototyping phase of your web application.
What is Interaction?
Interactions are visual changes of the screen which occur when users act on user interface elements. In other words, interactions are the behaviors of the user interface. For instance, when a user click a button, an image switches to another, or when a user drags an edge, the viewport expands. Those are interactions. Users are doing their jobs with a computer through various interactions generally.
IxEdit solves the problem
To implement interactions on a web page, programming with JavaScript is needed. However, it is hard to manage JavaScript for many designers. Therefore, making well-designed web interactions is difficult in general. IxEdit solves this problem. If you have basic knowledge about HTML and CSS, you can create interactions as you like. JavaScript coding is no longer needed.
via IxEdit.
Yahoo! Search BOSS - YDN
Posted by admin in Affiliates on January 11th, 2010
BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is Yahoo!’s open search web services platform. The goal of BOSS is simple: to foster innovation in the search industry. Developers, start-ups, and large Internet companies can use BOSS to build and launch web-scale search products that utilize the entire Yahoo! Search index. BOSS gives you access to Yahoo!’s investments in crawling and indexing, ranking and relevancy algorithms, and powerful infrastructure. By combining your unique assets and ideas with our search technology assets, BOSS is a platform for the next generation of search innovation, serving hundreds of millions of users across the Web.
How Do I Get Started?
- Check out BOSS specs and mash-up examples below
- Review the documentation and technical spec sheet (PDF)
- Get a BOSS Application ID
Using the API or Web Service
Overview
Search APIs are nothing new, but typically they’ve included rate limits, strict terms of service regarding the re-ordering and presentation of results, and provided little or no opportunity for monetization. These constraints have limited the innovation and commercial viability of new search solutions.
BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is different; it’s a truly open API with as few rules and limitations as possible. With BOSS, developers and start-ups now have the technology and infrastructure to build next generation search solutions that can compete head-to-head with the principals in the search industry. BOSS will grow and evolve with a focus on providing additional functionality, tools, and data for developers.
Twitter Applications / Downloads
Posted by admin in Social media on December 10th, 2009
Twitter Applications
Twitter lets you find out what your friends are doing in whatever way makes the most sense for you. Check out these applications for other ways to send and receive Twitter Updates.
| Google Desktop | iPhone & iPod touch | iPhone & iPod touch |
|---|---|---|
| Twitter Gadget by Google | Twitterrific by IconFactory | PocketTweets by PocketTweets |
| Widgets | Twhirl | Twitteriffic |
|---|---|---|
| Widgets by Twitter | Twhirl by Seesmic | Twitterrific by IconFactory |
| Spaz | Blogo | Digsby |
|---|---|---|
| Spaz by Ed Finkler | Blogo by Brainjuice | Digsby by dotSyntax |
