Shawn Medero

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Daily Brief, February 9th 2010, Morning Edition

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In a developing story from yesterday, Wolf Rentzsch counters Peter-Paul Koch’s assertion that mobile web developers have gotten lazy by focusing on building out iPhone-only web experiences. Wolf wonders if mobile web developers are trying to push the rest of the industry to catch-up. It is a fair question as mobile web browsers (outside of […]

Are We Focusing Too Much on Mobile WebKit?

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Peter-Paul Koch “shouts at web developers who think that delicately inserting an iPhone up their ass is the same as mobile web development.” The article is full of other link-bait worthy quotes, but the basic point is worth discussing: Are web developers endangering the web ecosystem by coding specifically for mobile WebKit user-agents? The blog focuses on […]