Comments on: Fuck Yeah Mobile Web

By: Rick Batistich

Rick Batistich — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 16:48:57 +0000

And bookmarked! I’ll definitely come back to your site more often from now on.

By: P.Bucheron

P.Bucheron — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:56:25 +0000

Great article. All this compatibility stuff is a real nightmare :)

By: Brian Danowski

Brian Danowski — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:31:55 +0000

Don’t forget about the netbook version too.

By: Baliniz

Baliniz — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 09:11:39 +0000

wow… inspiring!
nowdays make website is not enough for desktop, it is need to make a mobile version too ^^,

By: Jacob Ward

Jacob Ward — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:06:26 +0000

You have a great website!
Thanks for the informative post. Really got me thinking about mobile.

By: Ben Smithett

Ben Smithett — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:41:38 +0000

Great post Dave! And belated kudos on the new design, looks great.

I was listening to that John Resig podcast yesterday and when that realisation about the mobile browser landscape hits, it hits hard. It’s definitely a must-listen.

By: Steve Best

Steve Best — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 02:07:37 +0000

Great article. I too wish the “standard” was Webkit.

By: davatron5000

davatron5000 — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:34:12 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Auré!

It’s definitely a challenge and I think you’re right, I probably should have stressed graceful degradation more. Keeping It Simple is super important as well.

WML was pretty cool, but ultimately shortsighted and now totally deprecated by the iPhone.

Again, thanks for stopping by and your insight as a mobile guy.

By: davatron5000

davatron5000 — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:25:56 +0000

Good luck on Mobile First. I’m pretty curious if it really is the pathway to awesome.

I think at the moment I’m just checking in Mobile at an early stage, just like I would for IE.

Can’t wait to see the final product.

By: Auré

Auré — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:17:21 +0000

Great article !
You said : “This is so much worse than the IE6 problem, it’s like having 15 IEs.”
I would have said “…500 IEs” as we must deal with the old mobiles… and almost each brand and models is different in term of rendering and interpretation of the code.
In my work I have to make some mobile XHTML websites (I don’t speak about OML, WML, just XHTML that’s what I do) and it’s a real nightmare… Design and front-end dev for mobile device is really difficult…
I think that the most important thing to understand is : we can’t have the same rendering on each mobile ! We have to deal with and try to learn that fact to our clients… not easy.
In Web design & front-end dev for mobile I think that the graceful degradation is really important… it’s one of the most important thing to consider and verify… and of course… test, test and re-test again.

It was a pleasure to read your post, thanks :)