Developing for Mobile Browsers
May 28, 2010Mobile devices capable of browsing the Internet are exploding. Both in numbers and what is being made for them. Between apps like Foursquare and Gowalla and the hype that has surrounded them, we’re still in the infancy of this movement.
What is extremely significant for developers is how many different rendering engines they’ll have to test against. Even if a site or app isn’t mobile-centric, in most cases it still “has to work.” If you thought testing in IE6, 7 and 8, FireFox, Safari, Chrome and Opera was too much to test against, just think of all of the mobile versions of many of these browsers.
What got me thinking about this was trying to write a blog post in Opera Mini. I thought I would try it out on my Droid Incredible, but alas, there was some screwy CSS that meant I couldn’t even type in the textarea field. Thus, I’m writing from Android’s default browser. Sorry WordPress – just giving you one more thing to do.
Always more to test apparently.
