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mobile device emulator
This mobile device emulator might be of use here.
Yiannis
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Re: mobile device emulator
That’s an iframe, re-sized background image and applied zoom property. As much of an emulator as is the lightbox image viewer used by Textgarden.
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Ok:) can someone suggest some other ones?
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colak wrote:
Ok:) can someone suggest some other ones?
Your best choice is the actual device or platform (virtualization or otherwise). The other option to owning a device is the Android’s or iOS’ SDKs/emulators.
All of those those so called emulator websites I know, are basically just iframes and some styling. Nothing to do with actually emulating the platform. To have an actual emulator on your web browsers, you would have to connect to actual virtual environment, hosted on some server farm not just some web page with iframe on it. You could as-well re-size your browser window (and change zoom to mimic DPI like they do) to have exact same effect.
Last edited by Gocom (2012-01-04 12:58:56)
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colak wrote:
Ok:) can someone suggest some other ones?
In addition to what Gocom said: as far as website dev. is concerned, those simulators/SDKs (for iOS or Android or win7 phone) are ‘good enough’ to test you layout and text rendering (*). However, actual interaction with the device is still important.
A simple example: the iOS simulator is very good but you still interact with it through a pointer, (trying to) click on links with fatty fingers on a real device is a completely different experience. Links that are real close together (small touch surface) are still easy to interact with through a mouse pointer, but are hard to use with touch/fingers.
(*) you can do it in your desktop browser, resize your WebKit/Gecko/Opera browser window to something similar to phone/tablet sizes…
Where is that emoji for a solar powered submarine when you need it ?
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thanks guys.
The reason for my question is that I started to think seriously about how our sites look/function in mobile devices and as owning any of the devices is not an option given the current financial crises, I am trying to find any alternatives which would aptly allow me to test my experiments.
Yiannis
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It is really kind of a moving target. On my phone alone, I have the standard Android web browser, Dolphin HD, and Firefox. Personally, I don’t think that seeing how your site looks with the emulator colak found is a bad idea at all – it isn’t going to be perfect, but nothing else is, either.
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Here are some links I collected after I read one or two articles about mobile browsing:
google mobile viewer
iPad Peek
Gomez Cross-Device Website Compatibility Test
MobiReady
Test iPhone
Unicorn Validator
Validator Nu
W3C mobileOK checker
W3C mobile web best practices
and a new article
The trouble with Android
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hey guys, thanks for the advice and the links.
Yiannis
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