Cruel World, eh? Yah can't always get what yah want (and no amount of blog rants and whining will change it).
bubba
· 3 years ago
"Is this important? Well, come to CES and look at my phone."
But Bobby, what does your phone have to do with this? The importance isn't determined by the handy, but rather by the usefulness of the info. Some of us have been able to get Internet on the mobile for the last 5 years or so (Nokia 9000 in Y2k). The availability of cutting edge handsets in the US is a joke and has been since the beginning of mobile phones. To the rest of the world the 2125 isn't that big a deal. (we had the older version earlier this year in Europe and reading pdfs and Office docs from the handset is a nice feature to have) Having mail on the handy is useful, but I'm not going to Jones if I can't get my feeds when I'm not near the PB. Besides minimal email and some rudimentary scheduling/calendar sync, how does connectivity to the network on the handy enhance productivity for modern business users?
scobleizer
· 3 years ago
bubba: I get all my emails on my phone so if something important happens I know it. Same for my top 20 RSS feeds. Same for my favorite 10 Web sites.
I'm a weirdo, though. I'm stuck in airports a lot and at Maryam's family's houses during dinners where they are all talking Farsi and I'm bored. So, a little look into the world through my phone is a real blessing.
Not to mention the occassional thing where I need a phone number, or an address, or need to do a search for movie tickets, or a look at Seattle's traffic.
Richard
· 3 years ago
Yahoo webmail also seems to be broken on an iPaq running Windows Mobile 2003. I think it is because they decided to start using nice little buttons which don't do anything under Mobile when you push them. This has happened for about the last month when they stopped having a screen which said it looks like you're using a version of mail for a later browser and would you like to download IE6 or switch back to an older version of the site.
Annoyingly my ISP (which is a branded version of Yahoo) still advertises the webmail as working with WAP.
The annoying thing about this? The reason I went for the iPaq and mobile solution rather than the Blackberry (which work also offered) was precisely because it offers a better internet experience.
Samir Shah
· 3 years ago
Another look at what Scoble is saying.
In India, even $400 PC are too costly. Most of India knows Mobiles more than PCs. I do not think that China is much different from India.
Hence, there will be more mobiles than PCs. Smartphones and browsing will come in time as Indians and Chinese upgrade their mobiles. Hence mobile browsing is important.
(Machine translation of sites is also important for India. AltaVista does Europe and China but leaves India alone)
Robert Sayre
· 3 years ago
Navigating over a bunch of navigation links is also a big problem for the screen readers used by the visually-impaired.
Guzzard
· 3 years ago
Hey looking at your new site (wordpress) on my Blackberry t-Mobile I get nothing but a blank screen. Perhaps you should look inward and discover what you can do to help!
Havagan
· 3 years ago
I'm with you. I surf a lot from my PSP (not a cell phone, but you get the idea) and there are sites that work really well (bloglines mobile, gmail, gada.be) others that work reasonably well (windows live mail beta) and others work horribly (digg -- oh, how shameful that digg can't be viewed well on my PSP).
Colin Walker
· 3 years ago
I'm increasingly using my SmartPhone for web based stuff from Exchange ActiveSync to the Windows Live Mobile beta (which is pretty damn good in my opinion)
I'm slowly working on a mobile version of my blog (a bit of an issue as it runs on SharePoint) so I know that it's a bit slow at present until I get ows.js out of the equation for that version of the page.
I can definitely see this year goign the way of the mini-mobile device.
Tom
· 3 years ago
If you read a lot of blogs or RSS enabled sites on your cell phone, then you might want to consider setting up planet (http://planetplanet.org/). It is a feed aggregator that spits out all of your feeds in one HTML page. It uses templates, so you could just design a template the looks good on your phone.
ceejayoz
· 3 years ago
Some site designs need to have the navigation on top. I've found the best way is to have a "skip navigation" link going to an anchor on the top of the content div.
Richard Brownell
· 3 years ago
Ignoring the problem that some people have like 400 links/blogroll/whatever in their navigation (largely a crime of the blog community, not most websites), I don't see having navigation first as a problem. The problem would be FAR larger with navigation underneath content, particularly on pages with a lot of content. Imagine you are going to a site specifically to go to an inner section, for instance if you are looking for tech support, a message board, links section, whatever. If navigation is not first, you get the pleasure of scrolling for quite a long time to get to that content.
Innocent Bystander
· 3 years ago
This would be a lot easier if the most used browser had decent CSS support. Fix that and maybe web developers will bother taking the time to design for multiple media.
Jon
· 3 years ago
Well, I live in Japan and have fast internet access on my cell phone (386kbps if I'm not mistaken), so I browse a lot on my cell phone. In fact, at work I made a site for cell phones that helps with trading of stocks (http://m.gchello.co.jp/demo) It was created to keep it as simple as possible. It's so nice to be able to do everything from my cell phone no matter where I am. I even created some custom scripts to administrate my servers from my cell phone.
Jon
nortypig
· 3 years ago
I think the fantastic potential of the mobile phone is simply the number of pockets they sit in and in all situations. Give mobiles a couple of 'killer apps' and we'll see some major movement for sure. And if I were a business getting a commercial website done now I'd be looking seriously at that platform as a matter of course. Maybe I'd consider dealing with the issues server side and providing mobiles with a cut down content or something specifically for the small screen. The next few years will be quite interesting to watch for sure.
Joe
· 3 years ago
I had j2me-enabled phone with a pathetic web browser. Now that Opera mini is already available, my web browsing has gone up 10x.
Most sites are still a problem, but using Google's XHTML reformatter (http://www.google.com/gwt/n) they become more readable. It takes the bloat out of problematic sites, and optionally you can turn off images. It even fixes a site with a navigation on top by 'collapsing' the navigation section when you browse a page. There is a button/link available to expand the navigation.
David Langford
· 3 years ago
I use Alex King's WordPress mobile edition plugin. Then to make it auto-discover when using a cell phone to type in my url I insert the following into my wordpress theme's header template:
Is it bad that I do this? It seemed really simple, but I'm no expert in WAP and microbrowser standards.
David Langford
· 3 years ago
Whoops, I forgot about the whole pre tag. Here is what my post should have looked like:
I use Alex King’s WordPress mobile edition plugin. Then to make it auto-discover when using a cell phone to type in my url I insert the following into my wordpress theme’s header template:
Is it bad that I do this? It seemed really simple, but I’m no expert in WAP and microbrowser standards.
David Langford
· 3 years ago
Let's try this again with the xmp tag.
I use Alex King’s WordPress mobile edition plugin. Then to make it auto-discover when using a cell phone to type in my url I insert the following into my wordpress theme’s header template:
Is it bad that I do this? It seemed really simple, but I’m no expert in WAP and microbrowser standards.
David Langford
· 3 years ago
Okay, now I'll try unicode. (Can someone delete the other 3 comments I made?)
I use Alex King’s WordPress mobile edition plugin. Then to make it auto-discover when using a cell phone to type in my url I insert the following into my wordpress theme’s header template:
Is it bad that I do this? It seemed really simple, but I’m no expert in WAP and microbrowser standards.
dan brown
· 3 years ago
Why does my new movie suck? Oh well I'm rich anyway
Masha
· 2 years ago
very nice blog
directtv
· 2 years ago
Blog of directtv
skylinemodels
· 1 year ago
We’ve released a Wordpress Mobile Plugin based on Andy Moore’s plugin which will extract images from post and pages and reszize them to a size which will be diplayed on mobile devices. You will find the plugin and some more informations here: http://www.escortmacher.com/wordpress-mobile-pl...
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But Bobby, what does your phone have to do with this? The importance isn't determined by the handy, but rather by the usefulness of the info. Some of us have been able to get Internet on the mobile for the last 5 years or so (Nokia 9000 in Y2k). The availability of cutting edge handsets in the US is a joke and has been since the beginning of mobile phones. To the rest of the world the 2125 isn't that big a deal. (we had the older version earlier this year in Europe and reading pdfs and Office docs from the handset is a nice feature to have) Having mail on the handy is useful, but I'm not going to Jones if I can't get my feeds when I'm not near the PB. Besides minimal email and some rudimentary scheduling/calendar sync, how does connectivity to the network on the handy enhance productivity for modern business users?
I'm a weirdo, though. I'm stuck in airports a lot and at Maryam's family's houses during dinners where they are all talking Farsi and I'm bored. So, a little look into the world through my phone is a real blessing.
Not to mention the occassional thing where I need a phone number, or an address, or need to do a search for movie tickets, or a look at Seattle's traffic.
Annoyingly my ISP (which is a branded version of Yahoo) still advertises the webmail as working with WAP.
The annoying thing about this? The reason I went for the iPaq and mobile solution rather than the Blackberry (which work also offered) was precisely because it offers a better internet experience.
In India, even $400 PC are too costly. Most of India knows Mobiles more than PCs. I do not think that China is much different from India.
Hence, there will be more mobiles than PCs. Smartphones and browsing will come in time as Indians and Chinese upgrade their mobiles. Hence mobile browsing is important.
(Machine translation of sites is also important for India. AltaVista does Europe and China but leaves India alone)
I'm slowly working on a mobile version of my blog (a bit of an issue as it runs on SharePoint) so I know that it's a bit slow at present until I get ows.js out of the equation for that version of the page.
I can definitely see this year goign the way of the mini-mobile device.
Jon
Most sites are still a problem, but using Google's XHTML reformatter (http://www.google.com/gwt/n) they become more readable. It takes the bloat out of problematic sites, and optionally you can turn off images. It even fixes a site with a navigation on top by 'collapsing' the navigation section when you browse a page. There is a button/link available to expand the navigation.
@import url( http://www.myurl.com/wp-mobile.php );
Is it bad that I do this? It seemed really simple, but I'm no expert in WAP and microbrowser standards.
I use Alex King’s WordPress mobile edition plugin. Then to make it auto-discover when using a cell phone to type in my url I insert the following into my wordpress theme’s header template:
@import url( http://www.optoblog.com/wp-mobile.php );
Is it bad that I do this? It seemed really simple, but I’m no expert in WAP and microbrowser standards.
I use Alex King’s WordPress mobile edition plugin. Then to make it auto-discover when using a cell phone to type in my url I insert the following into my wordpress theme’s header template:
@import url( http://www.optoblog.com/wp-mobile.php );
Is it bad that I do this? It seemed really simple, but I’m no expert in WAP and microbrowser standards.
I use Alex King’s WordPress mobile edition plugin. Then to make it auto-discover when using a cell phone to type in my url I insert the following into my wordpress theme’s header template:
<style type="text/css" media="handheld">
@import url( http://www.optoblog.com/wp-mobile.php );
</style>
Is it bad that I do this? It seemed really simple, but I’m no expert in WAP and microbrowser standards.
You will find the plugin and some more informations here:
http://www.escortmacher.com/wordpress-mobile-pl...