Posts tagged wurfl

the down-low on mobile device detection

Feb 19th

Posted by dewaldbotha in apache

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so – you say you want to detect which mobile devices hit your site? – in the past, this has been a bit of an issue, but lately – with really nice projects available out there such as WURFL or DeviceAtlas, you are able to concentrate harder on other issues, instead of having to write a complete library of your own.

so for this, i’ve decided on DeviceAtlas.  just head on over to DeviceAtlas and open a developers account – you will get a one year developer’s license to play around to see how cool it is.

after registering – click on the downloads link More >

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centering mobile web

Jan 26th

Posted by dewaldbotha in mobile

with all the focus being on the mobile web these days, one must have a basic understanding of how the pieces fit together before even writing a line of code.

there is a great online community which supports mobile development called mobiforge which could be utilised to answer all of your mobile related questions.

but as a start i will point out some important steps/considerations to take/make:

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