developing for the mobile web

As more and more people start browsing on their mobiles, ensuring our sites work ok on small screens is going to become more important. Here are a few emulators you can use to test your websites look and work ok. http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/emulator.html http://www.opera.com/mini/demo/ https://www.blackberry.com/Downloads/entry.do?code=060AD92489947D410D897474079C1477 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsmobile/default.aspx http://developer.palm.com/

Firefox 4 Beta has landed

I mentioned last week on Twitter that I had been using the Fx4.0 alpha at home in preparation for the Fx4.0 Test Day (last Friday) and how impressed I was with it. Apart from the extra space saved from removing the title/menu bar the browser felt obviously faster and more stable than previous alpha and […]

Google open a fresh pot

Google last night announced they have completed their migration to their new web indexing system known as ‘Caffeine’. This new system basically allows them to push anything Googlebot finds into the main index in seconds rather than weeks. Previously Googlebot would crawl the web, find a site, then submit its content to another system for […]