Category Archives: Mobile Web

Experiment: Browser Based Geolocation – HTML5 Points the Future of the Web

The adoption of HTML5 and its surrounding cast of powerful new features is going to be a huge boon to web users and points towards a very positive direction for the future of the web. From the smoother interfaces of canvas, local storage enabling offline modes for online email programs and the like seamlessly, [...]

A Hands on Post From and About Google’s Chrome OS

In order to get my feet wet with Google’s Chrome OS (in it’s current developer build state, Chromium OS properly) and test a real world workflow with this “web only” device I figured I’d put together a blog post with some photos courtesy my new DSLR never leaving the Chrome “browser” now grown up [...]

Installing Google Android for Mobile Browser Testing on Mac OS X

Browser testing is critical to any web developer, designer… really any web professional. You need to know how your users or customers are seeing your work through the multitude of browsers and devices available to them, new ones become available every day.
About a year ago I wrote a post walking you through installing the Google [...]

Embedding my first Google Wave into Wordpress!

This is a test!
Below I embedded my first Wave “Hello World… I mean Wave!”… The first of many likely… let’s see what it looks like out in public… I know many of you probably can’t see it… This is a test!
UPDATE: I believe and claimed this as the first Google Wave embed in a blog [...]

How To: Install and Browser Test Your Site With Google Android Right on Your PC

Update: Post on how to install Android 2.0 on Mac OSX is here.
This post is for Android SDK versions 1.1 and under.

Browser testing is critical to any web developer, designer… really any web professional. You need to know how your users or customers are seeing your work through the multitude of browsers and devices available [...]

Paving a Path to the Truly Mobile Web: Mozilla Fennec Alpha 1 Released

My back story: I recently got into a friendly argument with some Mobile experts on a RWW Live: Mobile App Development call, I threw on my rosy colored glasses and spoke of a time where the Mobile web browser has access to device features like GPS, Contacts, etc we could leverage what we learned on [...]

The Mobile Web may just may drive forward the web of tomorrow. – Thoughts from Mitchell Baker’s (Mozilla) Keynote

Photo: Duncan Davidson
I wanted to capture my thoughts intermixed with quotes from Mitchell Baker, Chairman, Mozilla Foundation at the recent Web 2.0 Expo keynote entitled Opening the Mobile Web, it was truly a great concept and conversation and eye opening for me to see there is real commitment to making the browser (which Mitchell would [...]