Carnival of the Mobilists No 260

Another week, and another Carnival of the Mobilists has been published. This week’s edition has been published at Blog.AntoineRJWright and features a healthy serving of contributions from various points in and around the world of mobile [blogging]. Here’s a snippet of the selections:

Belen Pena’s entry for this week’s carnvial focuses on the schemas and contexts for usability testing for mobile software:

The moral to this story is that handset usability affects test results. A wonderfully designed website will feel difficult and cumbersome when used with a phone plagued by usability issues. Not that feature phones are badly designed (some are, some aren’t), but they are probably not optimised for web browsing or application usage. Similarly, not all touch-screen phones are built equal, and some of them will perform better than others.

David Olsen gives us a review of the book Head First, Mobile Web:

…The book includes hands-on lessons with each chapter (including code you can download) and useful “case studies” to make it clear how each technique should be used. By covering the latest trends like Responsive Web Design and HTML5 APIs and some old school techniques like device detection and CSS-MP “Head First Mobile Web” makes a great resource for anyone looking to get into mobile web development or, like myself, looking to brush up on their skills…

Read the read of the 260th Carnival of the Mobilists at Blog.AntoineRJWright.

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