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Mobile Firefox is Coming!
Minimo for Windows Mobile sucked.
Now Mozilla announced Firefox for mobile devices (and death to Minimo). Yay!!! Big yay from me. They have been hiring mobile engineers so I kinda expected.
Although they haven’t announced the supported devices/platforms yet, for the obvious reason, I assume Firefox won’t be available for iPhone and probably be available for Nokia phones since Mozilla is already on N800.
I am hoping to have some good extensions like Fire Bug for mobile web dev!
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Usability Guidelines for Mobile Web
WebCredible has this great article about usability on mobile web, 7 usability guidelines for websites on mobile devices. With actual examples and screenshots, pros and cons of each are explained nicely and clearly.
The seven guidelines are:
- Meet user’s needs quickly
- Don’t repeat the navigation on the every page
- Clearly distinguish selected items
- Make user input as easy as possible
- Only show essential information
- Place basic browsing control
- Design mobile-friendly layouts
Do they seem to be common-sense to you?
Yeah, but trust me, creating mobile web pages following the guidelines is not as easy as it appears to be. Mobile web is not just a dumb-down version of its desktop web sites, as some of you may think. Mobile web has whole new purposes!
By the way, I am glad to see Yahoo!’s oneSearch is used as an example for the “meet users’ needs”. We’re working really hard to provide the best mobile experiences to you!!!
