HTML5 video and audio tags are under the spotlights right now.
They are supposed to be THE solution to display medias on all devices without relying on third party plug-ins like Flash.
In this article, we will not discuss about the many issues to deal with video and audio containers and codecs. We just want to know if it is possible to use the video and audio tags out in the real world on mobile devices.
On most services (applications or web sites), there is a strong need regarding input dates.
The best way of achieving this is by displaying a calendar to the user. There are many ways of doing this using JavaScript but since the HTML5 team has created a specific tag to deal with that, we could use it, at least on devices that support it.
« The input element with a type attribute whose value is « date » represents a control for setting the element’s value to a string representing a date. »
A valid full-date as defined in RFC 3339, with the additional qualification that the year component is four or more digits representing a number greater than 0.
Example: 1996-12-19
In the HTML source, it looks like this : <input type=”date” name=”mydate”>
This tag is designed to input a date. We are expecting that a compliant browser would display a calendar without any use of JavaScript or at least it would display an optimized keyboard on touch screen devices.
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Since a couple of months, BkRender team has been working really hard on providing you with a more and more powerful tool to be able to reach your clients’ highest expectations.
Nowadays using geolocalization seems to have become a habit for Smartphones owners. Although it is natural to access this tool when using a native application, it would be a very valuable service to implement on your own Mobile Website.
Key usages for BkRender are also to provide advanced and basic devices with a downgraded equivalent solution – meaning matching the best handsets capabilities as well as the lowest.
Since BkRender V.4.2 release it is now possible to develop your own widgets to implement any sort of services suiting your particular needs. We’ve implemented a Template Rendering tool called Velovity which basically lets you inject casual HTML into your page along with a BKML version.
When starting a Mobile WebSite development, the most important thing you have to bear in mind is to preserve the User Experience. This is mandatory. Even though you would provide your visitors with the best features ever, the key thing is that your users have to find navigation easy and intuitive… Funny would be even better but before to get there let’s focus on the easy and intuitive ones.
In others words you even may have great ideas regarding features you wish to offer but beyond anything what’s important is that visitors use them! This is all good sense in a way but it is far too often forgotten by developers – talking about developers, the thing is before to start coding any line at all, you have to take some time to actually draw on a sheet of paper an advanced draft of what you wish to display. This is a key thing! Draw a couple of drafts and then finally try to imagine them on screen. Then wonder:
- Is it intuitive to browse from one category to the other?
- Do I find easy the reading?
- Am I being smashed by an outraging amount of information on only one screen?
- Do I really need to know everything I can see at a glance?
- Oh and actually, what do I see at a glance? If I take a quick look at my page – meaning less than 10 seconds – what do I remember seeing? You can always ask your colleagues to play that game which is a great lead to find out whether your layout does the trick and your colleagues see what you want them to see!
Beside your casual WebSite, you may want to develop a proper Mobile Service.
Whilst on one hand you first need to think what sort of usages you want your visitors to do with this dedicated service, on the other hand you have to bear in mind your content will be displayed through different technologies, WebBrowser etc.
Even though you’ll have developped something with an amazing look and great features, you will also soon experience some technical issues essentially due to the wideness of devices used to access your pages.
Mobiles currently in circulation (Backelite sources)
Then first question: Do you want your content to be accessible from any sort of devices one could be using? In other words, while you want your Mobile Website to look amazing over a new generation of devices such as an iPhone, how are you going to downgrade your Mobile Site for the older devices? What about next generation? How will you anticipate mobile phone industry innovations? On the left side is a figure which talks by itself… New generation mobile phones are much more used for browsing, however, many of cheaper handsets are still in circulation. As you can figure out here, there still are loads of different sorts of devices currently used. And for each familly you will have to think about the best solution to suit devices specifications and capabilities. Sounds like a huge work doesn’t it? you definitely want to provide former handsets which may have been the big sale at its time with information too. While developping a page per type of devices would be way too much work especially if you want it to stay up to date, BkRender, our solution we’re providing you with, consists of developping a single page in BKML and then: let BkRender optimize the rendering over up to 6.000 handsets so far! Else, you may want to consider learing dozens of technologies to be able to render your Mobile Site everywhere properly… With BkRender, there is nothing you’re going to need to learn furthermore than what you already know. Here are two examples of a pretty basic page as a first step and then a more complex page, with some examples of rendering for the 3 devices famillies.
Backelite propose BkRender, une solution de rendering permettant de développer son site mobile sur plus de 6000 terminaux. Autour du produit, Backelite propose différents outils afin de faciliter la création de votre site mobile. En effet, nous avons fait le choix du projet Contao – anciennement Typolight – (http://www.contao.org) comme solution de CMS (Content Management System) en PHP5 pour plusieurs de nos clients.
Suite à vos nombreuses sollicitations, nous venons de publier l’extension mobile en Open Source sur ce CMS qui permet de publier le contenu de votre site mobile pour BkRender.
Procédure d’installation :
Vous devriez avoir la nouvelle entrée “BKML” qui s’ajoute dans le menu de gauche.
Plus d’informations sur la page de l’extension Contao :
http://www.contao.org/extension-list/view/bkml.10000009.en.html
N’hésitez pas à nous contacter pour plus d’informations sur ce module sur notre outil de support : support-bkrender@backelite.com
Backelite et AT Internet ont le plaisir de vous présenter le deuxième numéro du Baromètre de l’internet mobile.
Bienvenue donc dans cette deuxième édition où comme chaque mois nous vous donnons des indicateurs consolidés sur un panel représentatif de sites mobiles afin de guider les réflexions et les choix stratégiques de chacun.
Un focus ce mois ci sur les wml et les i-mode : Terminé le WAP ! Bienvenue dans le mode de l’internet mobile !
« De plus en plus de mobiles utilisent comme base de navigateur la couche open-source Webkit permettant d’utiliser des fonctions évoluées de l’html5/CSS3. Par ailleurs les mobiles utilisant des standards obsolètes (wml, chtml) ont presque disparus. Les mobiles sont donc tous xhtml ou html mais avec une très grandes diversité dans leur compréhension de l’html, des CSS et du javascript. Cela combiné avec les adaptations nécessaires pour gérer les spécificités des mobiles (taille d’écran, interface tactile, connexion gps, gestion du off-line) fait que l’adaptation des pages en temps réel par des moteurs de rendu est plus que jamais nécessaire et permet d’optimiser l’expérience client par mobile. »
Ce Baromètre est le deuxième d’une longue série, il va continuer à se bonifier au fil du temps. Nous sommes certain que vous l’apprécierez et c’est dans cet esprit que nous l’avons travaillé.
Pourquoi un Baromètre ?
Nous étions nombreux à regretter de ne pas avoir de chiffres réguliers permettant de mesurer / qualifier et quantifier l’internet mobile. Nous avons décidé de palier à ce manque et avons mis une équipe d’experts sur le sujet. Nous les avons chargés de vous apporter les chiffres – pas ceux que vous connaissez déjà comme le nombre d’iPhone en France (estimé à 3,2 millions) ou le nombre de lignes mobiles (d’environ 59,5 millions) – mais des chiffres issus de nos systèmes croisés avec ceux des systèmes de AT Internet (que peut être certains connaissent encore sous le nom de XITI), et surtout de les commenter.
Le taux de pénétration de l’internet mobile atteindra en France les 41% en 2014, contre 11% aujourd’hui. Les analystes s’accordent à dire qu’en 2014 il y aura plus de connexions à l’internet via des objets nomades que via des ordinateurs fixes… cela vaut bien la peine de suivre l’évolution, de s’attarder sur les chiffres, de lire les conseils d’experts afin que chacun puisse se forger sa propre opinion et construire sa stratégie mobile.
Notre méthodologie est simple et pragmatique :
Nous analysons la répartition moyenne par marque et modèle de terminal, par système d’exploitation, des pages vues enregistrées pour un panel de sites mobiles. Ce panel est constitué par un ensemble de sites communs aux portefeuilles clients AT Internet/Backelite, respectant un ensemble de critères de sélection. Ces critères sont stricts, leur but est d’écarter les sites d’audience anecdotique, d’audience chaotique, ou dont les données collectées suspectent un dysfonctionnement dans la mesure. Les sites mobiles sont représentatifs des usages « mass market » de l’internet mobile : services pratiques, m-banking, sites d’informations, sites marchands.
Téléchargez le Baromètre en cliquant sur les miniatures. Nous vous souhaitons une très bonne lecture.
