mobile-web

What fonts to use when designing xhtml pages via CSS for mobile phones ?

Firstly I plan to CSS to style pages (with fluid layouts) which are targetted towards mobile browsers. <style type="text/css"> body { background-color: #000; color: #fff; font: normal 95%/130% "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0; padding: 20px 0; } </style> Wha...

How to force Iphone's safari to use "media=handheld"?

Is there a way to force to Iphone's safari to use "media=handheld" in place of media="screen"? ...

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What em can do which can't be done by %? ...

What are cross-browser, cross platefom web safe fonts?

How to make cross browser, cross platform and all devices compatible css font stack? ...

Is it still true, to make cross broswer layouts for desktop browsers using table+css is easier then div+css?

My one of web designer friend still making sites with table but he use css very nicely and I also use css nicely but with <div> and i face cross browser problem in layout more than my friend. and i given some reason to my friend about cons of <table>. read my whole discussion with friend? I - you site will be problematic with screen r...

Change Yahoo Blueprint application look&feel

Is it possible to modify the "bluish style" of a mobile application developed with Yahoo Blueprint ? I would like to use at least my own colors. ...

Which javascript framework should i choose if I'm making one site for both medium Desktop PC and mobile phone?

Which javascript framework is most compatible with mobile phones and desktop both? javascript disabled user of desktop are very low but mobile phone users are high and i heard not all javascript functions work in mobile phones. ...

Mobile Device Browser File vs. WURFL for ASP.NET

I am working on a commercial web application that has a separate mobile browser version intended for the more capable devices (BlackBerry, iPhone, Android, etc). I don't want to do simple User Agent contains style logic and was looking at the various detection libraries. It seems like WURFL and Mobile Device Browser File are my best op...

Mobile facebook app login enters infinite loop after a single incorrect username/password

I have developed a facebook application for the web, iPhone, and Blackberry. For the web, I direct users to http:// facebook.com/login.php?api_key=eb5e547ac5534ffc3862bc74017d344d&v=1.0&next=webLogin.php, where they can sign in without issue. That is, if they enter a wrong password and then enter the correct password, they are forwarde...

Google Gears shifts site down in Chrome.

So added gears functionality into my Mobi Engine, but there is a wierd behavior when viewing the site in Chrome. The HTML gets shifted down by about 15px. All other browsers tested so far does not show the same problem. Also doesn't seem to affect any mobile browsers. Check here for the symptom. http://cibr8.itell.mobi I only need gear...

What is the EASIEST way to add form data to a URL?

I have created a simple checkout form for use with a mobile website: <form action="" method="GET"> First Name:<br /> <input type="text" name="firstname" /> <br /><hr /> Last Name:<br /> <input type="text" name="lastname" /> <br /><hr /> Phone Number:<br /> <input type="text...

Facebook Mobile Authorization

I am trying to make a Facebook Connect web app more "mobile friendly". I am currently able to allow iPhone users to log into the site using the normal Facebook Connect PHP libraries. Here is the issue: Using my iPhone I am able to log in successfully. However this leaves 2 Mobile Safari tabs open: the site and the cross domain helper fi...

how to organize code for different "mobile device interfaces" and "desktop interfaces"

I am planning for a web application. I am using the PHP framework Kohana with Smarty. My web application will also have mobile device interface. Now, there will be lot of common and lot of separate code for the two interfaces. How should I organize the the code so that: There is no duplication of code. Unnecessary code does not get lo...

[iPhone] Mobile Safari "hover" (x positon of finger matches x position of image)

I'm working on a web app where I don't really have web hooks for hovers (think touch device). I can get x coords of exactly where the mouse is at all times. I need to check to see if the x coords of the mouse is over top of an image, and then grab that image I'm over top of. What I'm doing I'm using jQuery right now, and what I do i...

In Mobile Browser, Can i use javascript to get the user input key's value?

Hi I want to get the user's input key value, if user click "confirm" key , I will direct the page to some othe page, now i don't know how to confir user click the "confirm" key. ...

What things we should avoid in small screen, low bandwidth supported devices compare to big screen , high bandwidth supported devices?

Mobile has low speed , internet subscription plans of mobile companies are "data upload/download based" so bandwidth is the key in mobile site. So what things we should avoid if me are making different css for mobiles or making different site for mobile. some things i know to make mobile version of site quick to browse Flash silverl...

One page web apps and inline javascript and CSS

We've built what is called a one page web app(a single html page + ajax) In the pursuit of shaving as much http calls as possible, we bundled the JS and CSS in 2 files. Meanwhile we took a look at the way Google Buzz for mobile is built and there are some interesting points: inline SCRIPT and STYLE no external JS and CSS data:images ...

Can i develop medical software for Cell Phone ?

Hello Every One! I am programmer of ASP .NET using C#, recently working on .Net Framework 3.5 I am wondering for medical softwares for cell phone. As I visited list of softwares for medical science: http://cellsindex.com/mobile-softwares-for-Medical-c11 Can anybody help me how can i start development in cell phone applications? ...

Mobile web on nokia devices not displaying centain elements

So i have a site which is rendered with our in-house portal engine. It resizes images and adjusts style-sheets automatically in real-time. Issue is that some html elements are inexplicably disappearing due to what only can be described as HTML compatibility. But the problem is not consistent. And only seems to be an issue on some nokia...

Car rental System

I'm developing a mobile web site that support the rent a cars process and handles possible problems that can occurs. I was wondering if there are algorithms that could help me to (there are just examples): relaxing constraint: if 2 reservations are overlapping, change start_booking/end_booking use in an efficient way the cars instead ...