Questions tagged [mobile-website]

Mobile Website refers to the design and implementation of web content aimed at clients using mobile devices such as phones or tablets.

Mobile websites allow us to consume information that has been formatted to better fit the browser on our mobile devices.

When consuming content from a phone or tablet, websites that were not designed for these devices can often be difficult to navigate or interpret. Mobile websites bridge this gap by offering content designed specifically for mobile consumption.

Some solutions include redirecting users to a separate mobile web sites or using media queries or some other browser detection to serve alternate styling or HTML.

Another consideration of mobile websites is that of page weight. Because many mobile browsers use mobile carrier networks to connect to the internet, it is a good practice to conserve the amount of data your page requires. These practices may include compressed scripts or resources, smaller images suited specifically for mobile consumptions, or otherwise reducing page size by breaking up the content into more manageable areas/pages.

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HTML and CSS lock screen for mobile web application

I'm building a single page, offline html5 web application using jquery mobile, backbone, underscore and tbd templating engine. I'd like to create a lockscreen that looks similar to the native iPhone lockscreen. Before I go reinvent the wheel has…
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Deep Link Doesn't Work on Instragram Story Swipe Up

I have a deep link to our Android app. The link is working correct when I click it on from Slack, Whatsapp, or something like these apps. But, It doesn't work on Instagram Story Swipe Up feature. It opens their browser when I swipe up and I see the…
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How to invoke YouTube Application from My WebApp

I am coding a web application (a mobile website) which will be accessed by various smartphones, like Androids, iPhones and BlackBerry. One of my page is going to have a link to a youtube video. I am not sure how to put a link to it in such a way…
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An exception of type 'System.NullReferenceException' occurred in myproject.DLL but was not handled in user code

What does this error mean?, I keep getting this error, it use to work fine and it just started throwing this error.... any help? img1.ImageUrl = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("Url").Replace("###", randomString) +…
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How can I test websites for Mobile Devices

What can I use to test websites I developed using HTML/CSS to see how it looks in mobile devices like iPhone/iPad/Android? Emulators/Simulators on Windows? I could installthe Android SDK and use its emulator? for Apple's devices, I need to pay for…
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How to customize SharePoint 2010 mobile view

I am stuck on developing a mobile view for my SP2010 publishing portal. It is Internet-facing with custom pages / web parts (e.g. http://server/Pages/customPage.aspx with custom webparts on it). The site has a custom master page. I am having the…
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Android: How to create a launcher

I've never developed for Android before, so please consider me 100% dumb when you answer :) I would like to create an application launcher that will open the default web browser to a given url. In other words, I want to make an icon with my website…
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GZip with Mobile Browsers

I'm targetting a couple of web projects at mobile users, and noticed that some of the standard tools (JS libraries, json transfers, xml etc) are quite heavy for mobile data plans. I'd like to be able to implement gzip'd resources, and probably…
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Is it possible to add Sharing button for Snapchat?

I am creating a mobile version of website. I have added many of the social sharing buttons (links) on my website like - Facebook, Linked In, Twitter. Specially for mobile I have added button to share on WhatsApp. Now I am thinking to enable similer…
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What is the design best practice for setting the page width for mobile web pages?

Different browsers on different phones have different screen resolution. Is there a best practice in the community to set the width to a standard size, so that it works on most moderns phones and browsers?
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Play html5 audio sound when Phone screen is off

I am building a mobile optimized website and would like to play a sound after a counter is over. Usually, after 2 or more minutes. The problem is that once the phone's screen is off, the phone disables my js, and prevents the audio from…
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What parts of .NET aren't available in Monotouch for IPhone dev?

What are some key bindings that aren't included?
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CSS media queries that capture high-resolution phones, but not lower resolution tablets

I've been using min-width: 600px as my breakpoint in my CSS media queries. My rationale was that at 600px and above I'd capture tablet devices (Kindle Fire, iPad, etc) and below 600px would capture all of phone devices. It turns out that while the…
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Best Wiki for Mobile Users

Most wiki software I've presents lots of "features" on their pages. This is fine for desktop users, but is annoying when using an iPhone or other mobile device. I'd prefer pages that just had the content, along with maybe an Edit button and a…
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Is there an acceptable cross-platform method for displaying a numeric keypad in standard web forms on a touch-based device?

The goal: To find a cross-platform solution for displaying numeric keyboards on mobile touch-based devices, with a minimum of hacks. The problem: I have a regular web application using data input forms, containing primarily numeric data. When a…
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