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Testing on Physical Devices Made Easy
You're going to need to test your site or app on real devices at some point. This article looks at how this might be practical
- Quality Assurance - Posted by mokil 1 year 31 weeks ago
Testing on Physical Devices Made Easy- In past articles, we've discussed testing mobile Web sites using browsers, and testing using emulators. Using this combination, along with a solid test plan, should bring you to a point where your mobile site is stable and appears to be working correctly on a number of devices. Ah, but wait; what do I mean by appears to be?
- Best Practices - Posted by ronan 1 year 34 weeks ago
Measuring the Effects of Operator Transcoders- The issue of mobile-operator transcoders on the mobile web has been hugely controversial. For many iPhone and Android phone owners the negative effects of the transcoders are no longer visible and the issue has dropped off the radar, but they remain a serious problem for those using lower-end devices.
- Device Database - Posted by daniel.hunt 1 year 39 weeks ago
DeviceAtlas & HTML5- HTML5 is the brand new version of HTML, which contains a number of differences to it's predecessor.
- Browsers - Posted by mokil 2 years 18 weeks ago
A Guide to Mobile Emulators- In a previous article, I put forward a three-point plan for testing mobile Web sites. One of the points involved the use of emulators for first-pass device testing. This article concentrates on configuring emulators for mobile site testing (it also highlights emulators that can be used to test mobile applications too). It outlines the different types of emulator available, the best ones to use, and the various ways in which they can be used. For the uninitiated, an emulator is a software program that aims to replicate the functions of a specific piece of hardware or software.
- Best Practices - Posted by ruadhan 2 years 25 weeks ago
Post Markup Directly to mobiReady.com- If you missed our newsletter yesterday you are probably not aware of a small announcement we made in it. We've pushed out a few updates to mobiReady.com, our mobile-readiness page testing tool. The most significant change is that you can now post markup directly to the service, instead of posting a URL for the service to visit and test.
- Browsers - Posted by mokil 2 years 27 weeks ago
Testing Mobile Web Sites Using Firefox- Before you ever begin testing your mobile site to determine how it looks on handsets, you should make sure the functionality of the site is working as you expect. This is not always straightforward, as you want to approximate the mobile environment as closely as possible. Fortunately, Mozilla Firefox supports some great extensions that can make testing your mobile sites a piece of cake. This article explains how to set Firefox up to act as a first pass test environment for your site.
- Browsers - Posted by atrasatti 2 years 33 weeks ago
User-Agent Switcher for Safari 4- The User Agent Switcher plug-in for Firefox has been a GREAT add-on and we all love it. 1 year and 27 weeks ago Ronan wrote a really simple, but useful configuration file for it that is available here on mobiForge (if you use Firefox it's a MUST: User Agent Switcher config file).
- Browsers - Posted by jonarne 2 years 37 weeks ago
Location, Location, Location- Location based services (LBS) has been a buzz word and a hype since birth of mobile services. I'm not saying that it is a failure!
- Browsers - Posted by ruadhan 2 years 39 weeks ago
- Fennec Delivers!
- We've all been eagerly anticipating the entry of the Fennec (Firefox Mobile to the uninitiated) into the mobile browser space. A couple of days ago we were given our first taste of the future with Fennec when a new alpha version was released for Windows Mobile devices. So how does it stand up? Well, initial testing seems to indicate that Fennec will certainly be a contender. The Fennec team have packed in support for a wide array of technologies.
- Tools - Posted by ruadhan 2 years 39 weeks ago
- AutoTrader.mobi is 1Mth page tested by mobiReady
- We're happy to announce a great milestone today: autotrader.mobi was the 1 millionth page that was tested by our mobiReady testing tool! We're super happy about this, and we're delighted to see some well known brands such as AutoTrader making use of our free testing tool. Check out their results here.
