A web page in 2030 will weigh almost 320 Mb. The average mobile bandwidth globally will be 93 Mbps. Of course, this is not very likely to be true (well, who knows really…). Just for fun, I calculated the growth rate of an average web site from HTTP Archive (May 2012 to May 2013) and Ciscos […]
I had the pleasure of doing a talk on web performance on mobile devices at the Dutch Mobile Conference in Amsterdam last week. 45 minutes is way to little to dive into it all, but feedback says it was a good intro, and I am happy for that. I posted my slides at Slideshare.net. I […]
Just recently wrote about the difference between Device Detection, User-Agent sniffing and Feature detection. A bad example of UA sniffing is the new New York Times mobile site. See some sample code below. Not very elegant, scalable, future friendly or maintainable. Even if the newspaper is a “simple” site, with few bells and whistles, this […]
Along with the discussion around RWD, Adaptive Design, m-dot sites and so on, comes the discussion of identifying “stuff” in the users “thing”. I say “stuff” and “thing” because the terminology we use to discuss this is not very clear. Now, I’ll try to document how I see this. In general there are three terms, […]
I have a question: Google is kind of recommending RWD for mobile sites. Their crawlers are looking for stuff like this: @media only screen and (max-width: 640px) {…} in the css files. Fair enough…. But this media query uses pixels … While the ideal unit for RWD for mobile is ems. Question: Anyone know if Google […]
Mashable.com recently launched a new design. All “responsive”. While the definition of “Responsive Web Design” is to use media queries, flexible images and fluid grids, Mashable, on others, are now using the term for any site which can adapt it self to different viewport sizes, but also devices, browser capabilities and other “contextual properties”. Wrong? […]
I keep returning to the comments on the page where BBC’s announced its new mobile and tablet site developed using Responsive Web Design (RWD). Comments provide great insight! Recommended reading! Want to emphasize this one which describes a quite ironic issue not specific to BBC: Picture referred to is this:
Responsive Web Design (RWD) is getting a lot of traction as an easier way for content owners to get their stuff accessible from mobile devices. Being a mobile-old-timer, nothing pleases me more! Most online growth happens on mobile devices these days. We are really talking world domination. Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve had […]
From the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony. Reminding everyone that the web is for everyone (and also every device).
I have been reading the excellent article by @brad_frost a couple of times and reflecting… Even if I may represent the “mobile old timers” who still know how to write WML, I am 100% in on RWD, html5 and all that buzz (unlike some others). It is bound to happen and it is good for mobile. However, […]