Tag: mobile

Mobile Web Monitoring Advanced Scripting (MITE)

Mobile Web Monitoring Advanced Scripting (MITE)

Mobile-Web-Monitoring-MITE

Reduce your test time with MITE test automation. MITE comes with a script recorder that lets you capture each step as you navigate a mobile website. Record once and re-run the script on any device profile, repeating each action and collecting unique mobile Web optimization data for each selected device.

Start recording any time during a session by clicking the record icon on the ribbon. You can add validation checks for every step by simply right-clicking the script and selecting the validation check.

Not only does automated testing save time, but it also guarantees a consistent test methodology. Once you’ve completed mobile Web optimization, upload your script into your own MyKeynote portal and a get a new perspective on the availability of your mobile site with a week of free monitoring.

Fitting and inflating text and videos with responsive web design

There are plenty of solutions around for scaling images. Text and videos on the other hand – not so much. Here are a few that are handy:

  • FitVids.js – a lightweight, easy-to-use jQuery plugin for fluid width video embeds.
  • FitText.js – a jQuery plugin for inflating web type.
  • Letterings.js – a jQuery plugin for radical web typography.

Adaptive Images – deliver small images to small devices

Adaptive Images – deliver small images to small devices.

Adaptive Images detects your visitor’s screen size and automatically creates, caches, and delivers device appropriate re-scaled versions of your web page’s embeded HTML images. No mark-up changes needed. It is intended for use with Responsive Designs and to be combined with Fluid Image techniques.

Android now has 1 billion active users

Google is releasing some stats at their Google I/O event.  According to The Next Web, they’ve now switched from device activation counters to 30-day user activity metric.  Here’s how the growth over the last few years looks like:

android active users

That’s a lot in my book.  With about 7 billion people living in the world, that’s 1 in every 7 people on the planet uses an Android device.