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PhoneGap is an HTML5 app platform that allows you to author native applications with web technologies and get access to APIs and app stores. PhoneGap leverages web technologies developers already know best... HTML and JavaScript.
Ce débat n'est pas tout neuf (cf. Vous êtes plutôt application mobile ou site web optimisé pour les smartphones ?), mais la fragmentation des systèmes d'exploitation mobiles augmente mécaniquement le coût de développement / d'évolution des applications natives, et du coup rend l'utilisation d'HTML5 bien plus attrayante.
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For the past few years, we’ve heard pundits declaring each year as “year of the mobile Web”; each year trying to sound more convincing than the previous. Whether 2011 will be the real “year of the mobile” remains to be seen, but what is indisputable is the fact that the mobile usage of the Web is growing and evolving. As it evolves, so does the mobile user experience, driven by advances in mobile device technology — from better browsers on basic mobile phones (or feature phones — remember the Motorola RAZR?) to the increased adoption of smartphones and tablets.
The term “Mobile Web” (although often criticized) is commonly used to describe accessing the internet using a mobile device. This definition is broad enough to cover everything from using a browser on a feature phone, to using highly customized apps on smartphones or tablets. “There’s an app for that” has made device-specific applications the rage of the day, with some companies starting off backwards with “we need an iPhone app” instead of first understanding what their users actually need when they are mobile, the devices that they use, and then deciding the best approach for going mobile, which may not be an app, but could be a mobile website instead. Mobile websites are universally accessible, less expensive to develop and maintain, and can be searched and accessed by most mobile phones.
(The term “Mobile Web” is criticized because it implies that there are “different” Webs which just isn’t true — there is no Desktop Web, for example. It makes more sense to speak of the websites optimized for users accessing those websites through mobile devices. We will be using this perspective in this article. — Smashing Editorial Team)
This article focuses on designing the user experience for mobile websites accessed from mobile phones with small screens, though the process can be applied to building apps as well. As a Web designer, the good news is that the process is similar to designing desktop websites — with some additional mobile-only considerations that go h
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Je découvre avec plaisir le travail de Luke Wroblewski, spécialiste en ergonomie et design d’applications. Parmi ces différents travaux, Luke a consolidé de nombreuses recherches sur les interactions tactiles (Touch Gesture) qui gagnent peu à peu notre qu
- 78% of smartphone users accessed their browser in April 2010, while 80% of smartphone users accessed applications.
- In the three month period ending April 2010, more smartphone users accessed maps via applications, than maps via mobile browser.
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