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Widgets on Windows Mobile

binzywu — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:36:58 +0000

Microsoft just released the new mobile 6.5 developer toolkit, and you can get it from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=20686a1d-97a8-4f80-bc6a-ae010e085a6e

Normally you only can develop application for windows mobile via C/C++ or .Net CF. But as to me, I pretty hope to use more simple stuff to build app, like html and javascript, which means widget: http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets/. Like Opera widget, provides this dev feature, but it’s not Windows Mobile nature…

Great thing is coming, Windows Mobile 6.5 now supports the widget although I’m still hoping a better app list interface! Check out this about building widget on WM6.5, http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2009/06/04/getting-started-with-widgets-on-windows-mobile-6-5.aspx. Going to try creating something.

Flickr Mobile Site

binzywu — Fri, 29 May 2009 11:31:13 +0000

http://m.flickr.com is quite nice, including structure, design and functionalities.I do not have many experiences on mobile site development, but to me, if all websites can be like flickr mobile, I don’t think the I need so many client applications. Honestly, I don’t like facebook mobile, twitter mobile, so Ihave to install client applications for them to get better user experience.

via looking into the html source of flickr, I just realized it’s true that people say iphone changed the world. And flickr mobile is optimized for iphone,completely, although I can get almost same user experience by Opera on windows mobile phone. And unfortunately, flickr mobile doesn’t response same to IE on mobile…

So as resource for myself, there are two sites look nice, http://www.iphonemicrosites.com and http://www.iphonecompatible.net.

flickr mobile