Additionally, those tablet users fill in gaps left by other browsers. While general trends prepare companies for what's on the horizon, mobile content strategy should be based off of current user patterns.
Craver mentioned Chromeless browsers under the Mobile App Experience above, and likely the two most popular related platforms to use are: PhoneGap and Appcelerator. Mobile Web vs. Here are some significant differences you need to know about when it...
The time it takes for browsers to render a downloaded page and its elements. Data was represented in aggregate, but also by country, desktop vs.mobile and other factors. Also the speed and processing power of mobile devices like smart phones and...
Set a far-future Expires header, which allows browsers to cache content and assets. Specify a character set, so browsers can begin parsing/executing faster. Have an m.subdomain for mobile content that is competing against desktop content.
Outside the U.S.and in many other countries mobile is the dominant way to access Internet – often not even via smartphones ("features phones" with limited browsers are popular in India). Sometimes apps are the best choice (i.e.the Google Now app...
People use multiple devices and browsers to surf the web. Insights into the performance of your mobile apps. The new Measurement Protocol allows web developers to send raw uesr interaction data directly to Google Analytics servers using HTTP requests.
Cookies on a mobile device are the equivalent of their counterparts in desktop browsers, though they are more limited by default mobile device security settings. Apple's Unique Device Identifier (UDID) was the standard mechanism for tracking...
The small screen size of mobile browsers demands a different approach to desktop website design. Clearly it's not always enough to have a single website that can be accessed from mobile and desktop browsers alike.
It's accessible via Google's web application, so iDevice owners can simply point their web browsers to maps.google.com. Although this massive Street View update comes amidst Apple's iOS 6 mapping dramas, even those who upgraded to Apple's latest...
During Hurricane Irene, Google published a threat evacuation layer onto Google maps on the WNYC radio website to reach both browsers and listeners. During hurricane Isaac, Google worked with NOLA.com radio station to do the same thing, but also...
Opera said that it has extended the deal, though it called this a new agreement, to use Google as the default search engine in both its mobile and desktop web browsers until August 1, 2014. According to figures from analysis outfit Netmarketshare...
Handwrite is experimental, and works better in some browsers than others—on Android devices, it works best in Chrome. A new mobile browser beta feature called Handwrite allows mobile and tablet users to “write” their search query into the browser...
The minimum font-size should ideally be about 16 pixels, the 100% default for browsers. How much of your web traffic is mobile? Consolidate or eliminate scripts, resize and save mobile-optimized images, leverage image sprites to enable caching one...
For example, a media query with a max-width of 450px would be intended for mobile only browsers.link href="css/phone.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="only screen and (max-width: 450px)"> By encouraging developers to create one cogent...
They used three different browsers and searched 350,000 of the most commonly searched terms in China to recreate the issue. For example a search for the single character [江] (Jiāng, a common surname that also means “river”) causes a problem on its...
Axis is available as an app for Apple's iOS-powered smartphones and tablets or as an extension for browsers including Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer and Firefox. Batraski said that changing user behavior, such as the widespread adoption of...
URLs as Bing, but given Google treats smartphones as desktop browsers (even with the new smartphone crawler) and your content rankings are not gaining any benefit from your shared m.links and.and.well again, why would you want two domain URLs?
By allowing only IE to perform the advanced functions of a modern Web browser, third-party browsers are effectively excluded from the platform. Mozilla has accused Microsoft of failing in its commitment to give Windows users a choice in browsers, a...
The case is also similar for add-to-cart rates, and one of the reasons is most non-mobile friendly websites still load very slowly on mobile phones and do a poor job of helping hurried, distracted mobile shoppers to filter through all the search...
Google has the lead with Google Chrome and Amazon Silk browsers, with Firefox set to join in two weeks. Google responded that users care about encryptions on mobile devices and with current tech and new tech it's feasible to have encryption on all...
