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Achievement unlocked: Mobilism 2012

Wow. Mobilism 2012 is done, and it was a lot more awesome than I thought. Not that I thought it would be a dud, but it’s always pleasant when your expectations are exceeded.We have worked with this pa...

Mobilism browser panel live-streamed

In about two hours, at 16:50 CET, Mobilism will live-stream the mobile browser panel.Moderated by Jeremy Keith, the panel features representatives of BlackBerry, Opera, Nokia, and Google. Just like la...

All aboard for Mobilism

In eight days the Mobilism workshops will take place, and in nine days the main conference will start. If you plan on coming, now would be a good time to buy your ticket.So far we have about 320 atten...

Mobilism shares loot: 40 devices for our attendees

Mobilism will be sponsored by BlackBerry,Nokia,Intel,Google,HP,Adobe PhoneGap,and Microsoft. Of these seven sponsors, four will give us ten devices each that we'll share out among our attendees: 10 Sa...

Breaking Development slides

My slides from Breaking Development Orlando, where I held my Mobile Platform World presentation, are up now.It was a fun conference, and if you’re interested in the mobile web and don’t want to travel...

MoBeers slides

Yesterday’s MoBeers slides are up.This is the second draft of my Viewports presentations, and it has evolved somewhat since my talk in San Francisco last Friday.I’ll still be in the US for a week and ...

US tour slides so far

Three legs of my US tour are now done and dusted. Here are links to my slides, and the rest of my schedule. At An Event Apart Seattle I talked about the touch events. The slides are on the AEA website...

Final Mobilism line-up notes

On 10th and 11th of May the second edition of Mobilism will take place in Amsterdam. Like last year, it will concentrate on all aspects of the mobile web.The Mobilism line-up is complete now. We have ...

Never ever do business with Samsung India Software Operations

Back in October 2010 I was very glad to receive a mail from the people behind the Samsung Dolfin browser, who turned out to work from Bangalore, India, asking for my cooperation in making it better an...

Brian Fling finalises Mobilism line-up

On 10th and 11th of May the second edition of Mobilism will take place in Amsterdam. Like last year, it will concentrate on all aspects of the mobile web.Today we finalise our line-up: no less than Br...

Mobilism announces Seb Lee-Delisle

On 10th and 11th of May the second edition of Mobilism will take place in Amsterdam. Like last year, it will concentrate on all aspects of the mobile web.Today one more reason not to buy a Mobilism ti...

The iPad 3 and Moore’s Law

At first sight the new iPad 3 seems to be a vindication of Moore’s Law. Apple wanted to significantly increase the pixel density of the screen, and had to wait until the components were cheap enough t...

Q4 2011 mobile browser stats for 12 countries 2/2

Today we’ll finish the report on the Q2 2011 mobile browser stats according to StatCounter by treating the six countries with the least mobile browsing market share.This post treats the second six cou...

Mobilism announces Fast Track, session descriptions

On 10th and 11th of May the second edition of Mobilism will take place in Amsterdam. Like last year, it will concentrate on all aspects of the mobile web.Currently our quest is to systematically destr...

Web developer relations management in the mobile world

In addition to the quality of their web environment, there’s another factor that will decide whether or not mobile web players are going to survive: the quality of their developer relations outreach. ...

Mobilism announces James Pearce

On 10th and 11th of May the second edition of Mobilism will take place in Amsterdam. Like last year, it will concentrate on all aspects of the mobile web.For this edition we’re happy to welcome James ...

window.outerWidth in mobile browsers

Yesterday I finally researched window.outerWidth/Height in the mobile browsers, and here are my conclusions.A few months back James Pearce published research that shows that the use of window.outerWid...

Q4 2011 mobile browser stats for 12 countries 1/2

It’s time for the quarterly mobile browser statistics from 12 selected countries according to StatCounter.This post treats the first six countries; the second six will appear next week. Your donation ...

Longish interview on 5by5

What I keep forgetting to mention: I’ve been interviewed by Jen Simmons of 5by5, and it was a quite nice talk.The interview is here, and I talk a lot about mobile, the mobile web, mobile vendors, the ...

Mobilism announces Heiko Behrens

On 10th and 11th of May the second edition of Mobilism will take place in Amsterdam. Like last year, it will concentrate on all aspects of the mobile web.For this edition we’re happy to welcome Heiko ...

Vendor prefix practicalities

I’ve been going through my CSS tests last week, and thought I’d jot down some notes on how the browser treat vendor prefixes. It’ll bring some much-needed practicality into the discussion.This does no...

CSS Compatibility Tables updated

Yesterday and today I worked on the CSS Compatibility Tables and retested everything in the latest crop of browsers. There is some improvement, but also a lot of stagnation.I tested in IE10 pr2 becaus...

Browser stats for January

It’s time for the browser stats for January; as always according to StatCounter.Your donation for keeping this series up and running would be much appreciated.Four classesHere are the aggregate number...

Mobilism announces workshops

On 10th and 11th of May the second edition of Mobilism will take place in Amsterdam. Like last year, it will concentrate on all aspects of the mobile web.On Wednesday 9th of May, the day before the co...

The iPhone monoculture

This is getting frustrating.The official CSS WG blog:Discussed problem of WebKit monopoly on mobile and the consequent pressure for other engines to implement -webkit- properties. Zeldman:Webkit monoc...

Mobilism announces Remy Sharp

On 10th and 11th of May the second edition of Mobilism will take place in Amsterdam. Like last year, it will concentrate on all aspects of the mobile web. For an idea what we’re going to do, see last ...

BlackBerry DevCon slides

Belatedly, and snowed under by other news, here are my BlackBerry DevCon slides of Wednesday. Once more the Future of the Mobile Web, but I think it was the best Future session I gave so far. And I us...

-alpha- and -beta-

My article yesterday about the vendor prefix mess garnered quite a few interesting comments, and today I’d like to respond to those that object against my proposal to replace the current system by a u...

The vendor prefix mess

This is one of those weeks where everything happens simultaneously. I think that the vendor prefix discussion is the most important topic, so that’s what will get my attention.Daniel Glazman, co-chair...

QuirksMode.org reader survey, part II

In December I held a QuirksMode reader survey on Urtak. It had 69 questions, and about 59,000 answers were given by about 1,100 respondents. A few weeks back I published part 1 of my survey. Here’s th...

AEA, Breaking Development, and my US tour

From 31st of March until 17th of April I’ll be once again touring the US. I’ll start and end with conferences, but I’m not quite sure yet what I’m going to do in between and I’m looking for suggestion...

Retesting the input types

I have retested the support for the new input types ( and such) in the desktop and mobile browsers.All in all support has increased slightly since the last time I tested them, although Safari desktop,...

Mobilism announces Lyza Danger Gardner

On 10th and 11th of May the second edition of Mobilism will take place in Amsterdam. Like last year, it will concentrate on all aspects of the mobile web. For an idea what we’re going to do, see last ...

QuirksMode.org reader survey, part I

In December I held a QuirksMode reader survey on Urtak. It had 69 questions, and about 55,000 answers were given by about 1,100 respondents. Here’s a partial summary of the findings.About one quarter ...

The four device classes

I’ve been thinking a lot about device classes recently, and decided on a provisional four-class scheme. I have no idea if the scheme is going to survive, but we have to at least try to order the bewil...

The Java ME nonsense story

Earlier this week Net Market Share released numbers that allegedly show the Java ME operating system is gaining ground to the expense of iOS and especially Android.Unfortunately the story isn’t true, ...

Browser stats for December, Q4, and 2011

It’s time for the browser stats for December; as always according to StatCounter. Since it’s the last month of the year, I can also give the aggregate stats for Q4 and for 2011 as a whole.Your donatio...

The post-Android market

It’s a new year, and we’re supposed to make some predictions. So I’ll try to order my thoughts about the post-Android market, although I should warn you I won’t make a true prediction but will be a bi...

Mobilism early bird ending

If you want to come to Mobilism 2012, 10th and 11th of May in Amsterdam, it’s best to buy your ticket before Saturday. Early bird prices, which knock off €100 of the ticket price, ends with the outgoi...

Reader poll continues

If you’re bored during the holidays I encourage you to take my poll; it’ll help me understand who my audience is. Please answer as many or few questions as you like; although I’d like to ask you to an...

Position: fixed revisited

Now that iOS, Android, and BlackBerry all have a new implementation of position: fixed let’s see what changed since the last time we looked.Because it’s fairly hard to describe what mobile and tablet ...

IE market share

Microsoft announced it is going to automatically upgrade IE starting in January. In order to track their progress (or lack of it) we have to establish a baseline.So here are the market shares of the v...

Mobilism early bird and call for papers ending

Heads up: the Mobilism 2012 early bird discount and call for papers are ending.Mobilism 2012 will take place on 10th and 11th of May in Amsterdam. See Brian Leroux’s video from last May to get an idea...

The resize event on mobile

Last week I did some research on the resize event on mobile and tablet browsers. Executive summary: it’s a mess. And the best browser, surprisingly, is Samsung’s Dolfin.My conclusions are, summarised:...

webOS open-sourced to death

So HP open-sources webOS. That may sound like good news, but I doubt it. This is HP’s last resort. Apparently no one was interested in buying or licensing webOS. No word as to whether the webOS UX, by...

Browser stats for November

It’s time for the browser stats for November; as always according to StatCounter. They’re not very exciting this month, although several long-term trends are confirmed.Your donation for keeping this s...

outerWidth and finding iOS’s orientation

Yesterday James Pearce published important research into the nature and measuring of the mobile browser viewports. One finding is so important that I write this quick entry even though I haven’t yet f...

Linkbait 29

Three weeks since the last one. It’s conference season.Your donation for keeping this series up and running would be much appreciated.If you’re a web developer, please take the A List Apart Survey 201...

Mobilism announces Scott Jenson

On 10th and 11th of May the second edition of Mobilism will take place in Amsterdam. Just like last year we’ll be informed about the current state of affairs on the mobile web from the world’s most re...

Browser stats for October

It’s time for the browser stats for October; as always according to StatCounter. I’m going to follow the desktop market too, for a while, since big changes are brewing.Your donation for keeping this s...

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