Input image submit buttons

If you’ve ever tried to design a nice submit button for your mobile site, you’ll know what a pain it is. One option is to design it with CSS – add a border here, a background there, and you’ll get something that looks a little bit like a button. Take advantage of some CSS3 features [...]

Wapple’s Dynamic Activation and Suppression Rules

Ever since Wapple Canvas was created, there have been rules. Rules to check if videos are supported, rules to check for active campaigns, rules to check for specific screen sizes. Of course we have hundreds of others, but something missing from all of them was the ability to have customizable rules to specify your own [...]

Wapple Canvas Video Link Chunk

If you have a video uploaded to any of the likes of YouTube or Vimeo, we’ve written a new chunk for Wapple Canvas that will allow you to show it to the whole mobile world. It’s called the Video Link chunk – login in Canvas and add one to a page to see it in [...]

Graphic Chunk – new feature

We’re always looking for ways to improve our existing functionality inside of Wapple Canvas. We develop plenty of new stuff, but it’s always good to upgrade older features to keep them up to date. Inside of Canvas, the graphic chunk functionality used to rely on the fact that you’d uploaded a graphic before telling our [...]

How HowToMakeMyBlog.com was mobilized

Just before Christmas, we mobilized HowToMakeMyBlog.com by installing and configuring the Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for WordPress. I’ve written a much more in-depth article over there about how we did it, but here’s a bite-sized version that you can cut out and put in your wallet:

REST assured – you don’t need SOAP

Overcoming the barriers of mobile web design and development – it’s the tagline of our blog and something that we strive towards each and every day. We’ve given the development community some amazing tools that allow you to create some fantastic mobile sites and we’ve created plugins, components and classes that help you at every [...]

Code, Don’t Transcode for Mobile Web

Transcoding web pages into mobile web pages does not work. There’s an ongoing debate on the subject of mobile web transcoding, so here’s our take. Let’s be clear on our language here though. Transcoding videos for mobiles is essential and very good, but doing it to your web output is bad. Really bad. A reliance [...]

The iPhone Debate Gets Even Hotter!

Konny Zsigo of the MDA recently posted an insightful article into the ‘to iPhone or not to iPhone debate. It seems to have attracted a lot of flames. Blimey! Time for Mobile Web Junkie to dive in… Read the  article. It’s great. If you’re trying to make money, dump your iPhone strategy Then the comments [...]

Jakob Nielsen Catches the Mobile Web Wave

Thanks to Jakob Neilson, the world is suddenly waking up to the idea that to make the web useable on mobiles you have to make the web for mobiles. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/mobile-usability.html We’ve been saying this for years and I wonder what took Jakob so long to discover the mobile web anyway? Maybe he was on a [...]

Google Android – back to the days before CSS

Stop Press: The Google Android phone doesn’t support CSS. Or so the UAProf supplied by HTC for the G1 would have you believe. We’ve got one in the office and have recently updated its browser software. Only the new user agent profile (an XML file detailing the phone capabilities) now says that it doesn’t support [...]