{"id":287,"date":"2007-06-30T23:29:18","date_gmt":"2007-06-30T15:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/30\/perth-barcamp-2007-problems-with-the-mobile-web-nick-cowie\/"},"modified":"2007-06-30T23:29:18","modified_gmt":"2007-06-30T15:29:18","slug":"perth-barcamp-2007-problems-with-the-mobile-web-nick-cowie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/30\/perth-barcamp-2007-problems-with-the-mobile-web-nick-cowie\/","title":{"rendered":"Perth barcamp 2007 &#8211; Problems with the mobile web &#8211; Nick Cowie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Presentation slides are here <a href=\"http:\/\/nickcowie.com\/presentation\/barcamp_mobileweb.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Problems with the mobile web<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More internet phones sold than laptops<\/li>\n<li>Limit 1 &#8211; small screen on mobile<\/li>\n<li>Limit 2 &#8211; Interface of phone. Mouse and keyboard equivalent are a numberpad<\/li>\n<li>There are many different mobile web browsers.<\/li>\n<li>You should you build a separate web site for a mobile browser.<\/li>\n<li>Mobile users don&#8217;t want a complex experience &#8211; they want a brief, quick user experience&#8230;don&#8217;t want fancy graphics, just want core info.<\/li>\n<li>Touch screen vs. small keyboard.<\/li>\n<li>iPhone uses a different protocol to what is in Australia (??)<\/li>\n<li>Mindset of website design = presume interface used is a desktop.<\/li>\n<li>Workflow, mundane tasks &#8211; mobile devices are best for this. Phone numbers, opening hours. Very directed info.<\/li>\n<li>So &#8211; don&#8217;t squish all the info from website into the mobile website version. Pare it down.<\/li>\n<li>Dec 2006 &#8211; $100 for 1 G of traffic, 3 months later $50&#8230;now if you have the right plan  with 3 then you can get $30 1G.<\/li>\n<li>Custom aps for mobile interfaces eg. google maps.<\/li>\n<li>Opera one of best mobile browsers for mobile &#8211; can conver java to links.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presentation slides are here Problems with the mobile web More internet phones sold than laptops Limit 1 &#8211; small screen on mobile Limit 2 &#8211; Interface of phone. Mouse and keyboard equivalent are a numberpad There are many different mobile web browsers. You should you build a separate web site for a mobile browser. Mobile&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,35,253],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barcamp","tag-barcampperth07","tag-mobile"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3BXdd-4D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}