Comments on: Mobile Sites Are Supposed To Be Slow, But Not This Slow

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:01:33 +0000

Shopping on a mobile is just as silly as trying to watch video on one, the new gadget fascination brought on by witless people. And people wonder why the world is so messed up. Greed, not so smart people, the list goes on and on…

By: Wayne Brown

Wayne Brown — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:42:40 +0000

These retailers need a mobile-centric knowledgeable vendor that only develops mobile side solutions. What happened at these retailers, is that full-screen, non-mobile-centric developers were used. The best mobile apps do not come from the minds of full-screen, PC/Server, type programmers. I’ll bet that the retailers criteria matrix didn’t even include performance benchmarking. Why, because they are thinking like PC/Server developers…….

By: mobile sites

mobile sites — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:50:21 +0000

I agree. Stick with XHTML MP or something light-weight. Most anyway mobile browsers can’t process fancy stuff like flash.

By: Fabien Tiburce

Fabien Tiburce — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:08:58 +0000

When Google rose to prominence, the leading “portals” at the time were racing to see who could bloat their homepage more with ever shrinking fonts. It seems this lesson has been forgotten with some mobile apps. Here is a shocker: by and large, users don’t care how your mobile page looks. Really. Users want to be able to find what they are looking for quickly. You need to optimize your templates and navigation for mobility. Putting your webpage on the mobile is a recipe for disaster. How do you do that? Stop listening to designers and web developers with little or no mobile experience. Talk to a usability expert and an experienced mobile developer. One mobile application I happen to know intimately has no flash, no javascript and, other than content, only one image (the logo). It flies and is completely portable. Users want to use it; there is no secret.