From a discussion with my cousin a few weeks ago (just after Google experienced a very rare breakdown) What do you do when you want to test your internet connection ? Don't you try www.google.com ? is not Google the first website you try to reach ? It is for me and if I get the screen above i...

OK, to start with the pizza place down the street is closed on Monday. I forgot that and we (ok mainly me) were just dying for a pizza. Because they are cheap (mmmh!) we decided we would give a shot to Dominos,... and because I am a bit of a geek I wanted to order online. Bad bad bad trip. Ordering...

Let's say you need to develop a service for both the web and the mobile web. This website will have for every web page a mobile version with the same content than on the normal web but formated to be readable on mobile device. In my opinion you need to satisfy the following: 1. The lambda user sho...

A very interesting post from Andrea about MS Mobile User-Agent, it looks like once again MS goes its own path and that just sucks (once again). Looks they also introduced some funky meta tag. Read also Detecting Internet Explorer Mobile's User-Agent on the server on IEMobile Team Weblog (probably a...

Welcome to Kaywa too :-)...

Read it on MWBPWG blog But what if there were a simple way for any Web developer to gain access to basic information about the devices hitting their site. What if they could use this information in a straight forward way in their templates (JSPs, ASPs, PHP, etc...) or other server-side logic for th...

Russell Beattie: Handheld Stylesheets But the coolest part is every single page has an associated handheld media-type stylesheet associated with it to make browsing via mobiles that support it (i.e. Opera mobile) faster, easier, more pleasing and generally more efficient. No recoding markup, no ...

As mobile device gains in cpu and memory mobile browser gets more powerful and a normal web page viewable on mobile device. With some smart browsers or transcoding service a normal web page can even be somehow formatted to fit mobile device. Three times in a short time span I have been asked why do...

Nokia and Abaxias just launched Mobile Tag. The service let you generate a "tag" (other would call it a code, or 2D code) that contains your personal information: Firstname, lastname, phone number, email address: You can actually generate as much of those as you want. You can then connect to yo...

Opera Platform™: Enabling AJAX applications on mobile phones By storing an AJAX application on the mobile phone and allowing XML-communication with a Web-server, the traditional bandwidth constraints become less of an issue. This also enables transparent updating of information pushed to the ...