Pattern Group M

Pattern Group M: The Mobile Web

M1 MOBILE SCREEN SIZING

McLaughlin, B. (2005, November 22) Retrofit Your Web Pages for Wireless Compatibility: Create More Flexible Web Pages with XHTML and CSS (www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/wireless/library/wi-css/?ca=dgr-lnxw01WirelessPages).
This Web resource provides some concrete examples of how to use XHTML and style sheets to create Web pages that can be more easily viewed by mobile devices.

Smith, M. (2005) You’re a Fool to Design Only for the non-mobile Web (www.onlamp.com/pub/wlg/8817).
This Web page provides some simple steps you can take to make your Web pages more friendly for mobile users, including (1) adding jump-links so that mobile users can jump to each of the major parts of the page, (2) adjusting the physical layout of your Web page so that the most important parts are at the top and will be loaded first, (3) testing your Web page first with desktop computers, and (4) splitting up your Web pages into smaller, more digestible chunks.

W3C. (2002) CSS Mobile Profile 1.0 (www.w3.org/TR/css-mobile).
CSS Mobile is a recommended standard that provides a way for site designers to design once for desktops and CSS-based Mobile Web devices.

W3C. (2005) WICD Mobile 1.0 (www.w3.org/TR/WICDMobile).
This is a working draft of a standard that provides a way for site designers to design a site once and then publish to desktops, XHTML (WAP), and other Mobile Web devices using CSS and SVG.

M2 MOBILE INPUT CONTROLS
See the references listed under MOBILE SCREEN SIZING (M1).

M3 LOCATION-BASED SERVICES

Pfeiffer, E. W. (2003, September) WhereWare. Technology Review (www.cs.cmu.edu/%7Ejasonh/courses/ubicomp-f2004/papers/05-whereware.pdf).
This article gives a nice overview of some ways of determining one’s location, as well as some emerging applications and players in this field.

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