Category Archives: mobile

Delivering web to mobile

Posted on May 17, 2012 by

Last week I gave a quick overview of the new TechWatch report from the JISC Observatory entitled Delivering Web to Mobile for a JISC webinar. As described in the introduction: This report is intended to help staff of UK education institutions, involved in … Continue reading →

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Enyo: a component-oriented JS framework

Posted on January 31, 2012 by

Enyo first made an appearance on the HP TouchPad and was the framework used for WebOS applications.  However, after HP killed the TouchPad and put WebOS development on hold, HP has spun off Enyo into a standalone open-source JS app … Continue reading →

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Digital wallets and mobile payments

Posted on December 2, 2011 by

I’m now spending part of my time working on the JISC Observatory, so I’ll be writing occasional tech trends posts here.  While it could be argued that for most people money went virtual a long time ago with the emergence of … Continue reading →

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The Future of Offline Web Applications

Posted on October 27, 2011 by

W3C has received 27 position papers for a workshop on November 5th on the Future of Offline Web Applications, which are all worth a read if you’re interested in Widgets, AppCache, and Web Apps in general. They are all quite … Continue reading →

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PhoneGap and Widgets

Posted on October 7, 2011 by

Its been a busy month for PhoneGap, what with being acquired by Adobe and submitting their code to the Apache Incubator. For those who don’t know already, PhoneGap provides a way for developers of mobile web applications to convert their … Continue reading →

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Mozilla Web API: Friend or foe?

Posted on August 25, 2011 by

Mozilla recently announced a new WebAPI for enabling mobile web applications to talk to device features. If that sounds familiar, then it should, as W3C and WAC have been developing similar APIs for a few years now. The scope of … Continue reading →

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Widgets and Mashups for Personal and Institutional Technologies

Posted on May 11, 2011 by

Yesterday I gave a lecture at KMI at the Open University on “widgets and mashups for personal and institutional technologies”. There was a broadcast of this, and in a short while this will be viewable from the KMI Podium website. … Continue reading →

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Adventures in progressive enhancement (pt 2)

Posted on March 21, 2011 by

I’ve had some more time to play with progressive enhancement (see my earlier post) and I’ve learned a little more about the kind of techniques needed. One of the interesting statements that Bryan made in his slides is “the absence … Continue reading →

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Adventures in progressive enhancement

Posted on March 16, 2011 by

Like many people I was very impressed last year with Bryan Rieger’s slide deck Rethinking the mobile web in which he set out the case for designing websites with mobile users as the first concern, and then progressively layering enhancements … Continue reading →

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W3C Standards for Web Applications on Mobile

Posted on February 24, 2011 by

Dominique Hazaël-Massieux has put together a really nice overview of the various W3C specifications that relate to all aspects of mobile web applications – from presentation and media handling to device APIs and app packaging. There are specs here I’d never … Continue reading →

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