Let’s talk about mobile web development some more! The principle of progressive enhancement is a general principle of front-end web development with wide applicability. Because you have a wide range of capabilities in mobile browsers, the principle is very important in this space as well.
Category: Mobile Web
A couple days ago I blogged about the viewport meta tag. It is a handy little meta tag for your mobile sites, for sure. For installment 3 of 7,867,543 on mobile web development, the next natural step is to talk about media queries.
Yesterday I posted what is basically my intro to this series on mobile web development. For a bit we are going to talk about some things that affect mobile web development whether you are focusing on just making some content work on mobile or if you are building a mobile web app. The first thing to talk about is the viewport meta tag. To show what this does, we’re going to iterate through making a page mobile-friendly. First, the page without modifications:
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Prolegomena to Mobile Web Development
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The mobile web is on my brain constantly these days. This is partly because I work as a development lead for Match.com in their mobile group, and I happen to be working on a big mobile web project for them (yet-to-be-launched). This is partly because I have...um...other projects around mobile web going on. This is also because Match gave me an iPhone. My first smartphone was a Windows Phone 7 device. Given that I have in the past much indulged myself in the Microsoft Kool-Aid, I bought that thing the day it came out. In general the phone was very good but the browsing experience was very bad (it got better with “Mango”, but it remains less than thrilling). So owning that deviced did not at all excite me about mobile web development. But then I switched to the mobile group at Match and they gave me an iPhone. Suddenly, I had a device that had a great browser. Perhaps you are surprised, but that makes a huge difference. And I’m a web developer by trade anyway, so the world of mobile web development offers an interesting new avenue.