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Why choose Mowser for mobile transcoding over Google?

by Naser Hossain Dec 24th 2007

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If you've ever used a mobile phone or PDA to surf the web, you've probably noticed that some sites render better than others on a small screen. That's because some web developers design special mobile versions of their pages. But there are also several web-based services that "mobilize" web sites by stripping some data and presenting you with a stripped down version of a web page.

Probably the most popular web-site mobilizing services are Google Mobile and Skweezer. Mowser is a less popular service, but it might be the best of the bunch. We first checked out Mowser earlier this year, but a recent article from Mowser creator Russel Beattie made us take another look.

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Tags: google, handhelds, mobile, mobilize, mowser, rendering, webmaster

Filed under: Design, Developer, Internet, Web services

Developers shifting away from Windows, and towards Linux and handhelds

by Chris Gilmer Jul 4th 2007

Could developers be moving towards Linux and handhelds? A new study says they are! Evans Data has published a study that found that Windows developers are dropping slowly, with 65% of software being written for Windows this year compared with 75% last year. The shift began two years ago, and seems to be drastically increasing.

Why this change? Web browsers are becoming capable of running advanced applications both on and offline, making desktop operating systems seem less important.

What are your thoughts, should developers keep their focus on browser/web based applications like Apollo, and forget about developing for multi operating systems?

Tags: apollo, application, browser, developer, handhelds, linux, operating system, OperatingSystem, os, web, windows

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