Recently Packt Publishing has published a new book on Mobile Web Development written by Nirav Mehta. The book talks about MyMobileWeb as one of the open source tools that can be used in the development of sites that adapt to its Delivery Context.
Packt Publishing kindly sent me a copy of the book and here is the result of my review:
The book is very well written specially for beginners to Mobile Web Development. However, the experienced mobile web developer will also find very useful chapters on SMS, MMS sending and Paypal. The IVR chapter it is also a value added. The book covers all the fundamental useful tools needed to develop mobile web sites and applications. It is important to remark the excellent approach showing the limitations of LCD development and introducing the necessity of content adaptation. Also the example chosen is simple but at the same time enlightening. The author has demonstrated that he has done an excellent research on open source tools and standards for mobile web development. The chapter on Mobile AJAX has been also a very good choice, as Mobile AJAX is the future.
The only disadvantage I see is that Java development is not covered. Also an specific chapter on MyMobileWeb, including programming examples, could have been very positive
In a few words, if you are a serious mobile web developer that needs to have a good understanding of the tools and possibilities of this technology, you should definitely buy the book
The MyMobileWeb team is pleased to announce the availability of an early implementation of W3C’s DDR Simple API specification, which has been published yesterday as a Last Call Working Draft. This API is described as “Simple” in anticipation of a future more advanced API which will have a much wider scope.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-DDR-Simple-API-20080404/
From the Abstract:
“Web content delivered to mobile devices usually benefits from being tailored to take into account a range of factors such as screen size, markup language support and image format support. Such information is stored in “Device Description Repositories” (DDRs).This document describes a simple API for access to DDRs, in order to ease and promote the development of Web content that adapts to its Delivery Context.”
Our implementation is based on WURFL and UAProf data and supports the W3C’s Core Vocabulary and the MyMobileWeb’s vocabulary (the vocabulary used by MyMobileWeb to adapt content and applications). It is flexible enough to incorporate other data sources if available.
The implementation can be downloaded at
http://forge.morfeo-project.org/frs/download.php/314/DevInfo-Simple0.9.1.tar.gz
We are now working on integrating MyMobileWeb with the API implementation. We anticipate that our product will be one of the first open source adaptation tools that will use this new API.
Comments on the implementation are welcome. Please send comments to ddr-ri-develop@lists.morfeo-project.org
A workshop presenting the MyMobileWeb was held at Telefónica I+D’s Madrid offices on Monday, 14 November from 11:30 to 14:30.
MyMobileWeb platform, which Telefónica I+D is shortly to free within the MORFEO community, is a mobility channel platform. This platform enables multi-device access (mobile telephone, PDAs, etc.) to conventional Web gateways.
The agenda of the presentation is:
- TIDmobile architecture
- WURFL device manager architecture
- Developing an application’s presentation layer
- Defining event drivers
- Defining application operations
- Configuring and deploying applications
- Demos
The documentation and the video of the presentation.
