I was experimenting for writing webpages for mobile sites. I was looking for some guideline and resources.I will try to document what I found.
First what found is for mobile doctype should be used for mobile site.
Two options found
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.0//EN”
“http://www.openmobilealliance.org/tech/DTD/xhtml-mobile10.dtd”>
or
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.2//EN”
“http://www.openmobilealliance.org/tech/DTD/xhtml-mobile10.dtd”>
No they are almost similar except [...]
Archives for July 2009
Coding for Mobile
WTF is a Browser !!!
Google recently interviews bunch of people Times Square NY asking a bunch of questions like:
What a browser is ?
What is the difference between browser and Search Engine?
Which browser you use?
Do you know about Google Chrome?
Guess what came out …
Less than 8% who were interviewed on this day knew what a browser was
So it’s final !!! XHTML 2 will fade away
When I started working for next generation front-end engineering initiative, a year back for my company, I was in a dilemma wheather to go for XHTML 2 or HTML 5.
Given at that point of time both were in a very pre matured state and very less suport in browsers, I decided to follow both of [...]
CUE Training
As a part of awareness building across the company we arranged for a 3 day seminar and workshop session.First two session were mainly lecture session where we talked about design, user experience, usability, best practices, front-end engineering and accessibility. Final session was on aesthetics and design principles.
We conducted an workshop at the last session, and [...]
Pagination or Lazy Loading or Interactive Lazy loading
I have been thinking this for quite some time.
We had (have) pagination for showing large data set …
Then we have lazy Loading which we can successfully use in certain situation like Google Reader.
I haven’t seen interactive Lazy Loading anywhere yet but am sure will be available some where implemented.
What I mean by Interactive Lazy Loading [...]
Long Form Usability
I usually come across forms in banking application specially which has very long forms.When I say long form, I am talking about forms containing more than 50 fields. During user studies I noticed people get actually irritated filling such long forms. To give an extreme example one Indian Bank has 200 filed long form to [...]
Hello world!
At last I have my own blog. The name is awkword I know
I actually registered this domain for some other stuff, it didn’t happen…thought why waste money. I wanted a blog ..let’s have it here itself … so here I am.
Happy beginning
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