Mobile Web: Taiwan, Opera and WebOS
An eye-opening insight into web usage on mobile devices in Asia from Paul Rouget.
Link archive: September 11th, 2011
Mark Boulton on layouts and grid systems | Interview | .net magazine
In this interview Mark discusses the “content out” rather than “canvas in” thinking that informs his new canon.
LukeW | Why Separate Mobile & Desktop Web Pages?
Luke enumerates the reasons why Bag Check has a separate desktop website rather than one responsive URL for desktop and mobile. They’re good reasons but I think they could all be addressed with some clever conditional loading, especially seeing as the site was, of course, built mobile first.
Of Sites and Apps « James Pearce
James attempts to tackle the thorny question of what makes something a web “app” (rather than a web “site”). It reminds of the infamous definition of obscenity:
I know it when I see it.
In short, the answer to the question “what is a web app?” is “fuck knows.”