Many thanks to Chris Leonard for leading the discussion on mobile platform development in this combo meeting with WebDev.
Notes & links from the meeting follow:
Test web sites through various devices in Firefox.
- Download extension at http://chrispederick.com/work/user-agent-switcher/
- Download and install latest device list at http://techpatterns.com/forums/about304.html
Detect mobile browsers tool. Creates code for detection in Apache, IIS, js, php and more – http://detectmobilebrowsers.com/
Online tools for testing your site as different resolutions
PhoneGap – http://phonegap.com/about
iPhone/iPad Touch icon generator
http://www.mpowerinternet.com/IPhoneIcon/Upload
Stephanie Rieger: Rethinking the Mobile Web http://yiibu.com/about/site/
BrowserHawk & BrowserHawk-to-Go – http://www.cyscape.com/
jQuery Mobile – http://jquerymobile.com/
Modernizr – http://www.modernizr.com/
WordPress Add-on to format sites for mobile automagically:
- WPTouch – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wptouch/
- WP Touch Pro version – http://www.bravenewcode.com/store/plugins/wptouch-pro/
Mobilizer – preview tool for mobile development – http://www.springbox.com/mobilizer/
Making Sites Mobile Friendly (slideshare) – http://www.slideshare.net/dead_arm/making-sites-mobilefriendly
Tutorial: “Flexible Mobile Layouts with CSS3″ – http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/flexible-mobile-first-layouts-with-css3/
Article: Mobile Browser Cache Limits – http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/06/28/mobile-browser-cache-limits/
Article: How Mobile Browser Cache Affects Browsing - http://www.tested.com/news/how-mobile-browser-cache-affects-browsing-on-ios-android-and-more/521/
