Chapter 5
Thinking Small, Smaller, Smallest
In This Chapter
Understanding the differences between designing for handheld verses desktop devices
Understanding the difference between smartphones and feature phones
Exploring mobile operating systems and mobile browsers
Introducing the user agent
Compensating for differences in mobile user interfaces
If you're into gadgetry, especially wireless mobile communications and entertainment gadgetry, this is an exciting time to be alive. Apple's recent release of the iPad, and the onslaught of ensuing competing products hitting the market, is rapidly changing the way we think about and use the mobile web. These new tablet devices — and their smaller siblings, the latest round of smartphones — are, in effect, minicomputers, especially when it comes to accessing and using the Internet. These two technologies — full-blown computers (desktops and notebooks) and wireless handheld devices (smartphones and tablets) — are on a fast track to a fusion ...
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