On one hand, web browsing using a mobile device can lead to having hard time, due to the inherent constraints imposed by the device itself — mainly physical constraints like reduced size.
Amongst this constraints are the following points:
* reduced size screen,
* reduced memory,
* reduced bandwith (when paying downloaded volume),
* limited navigation/scrolling facilities,
* limited user input facilities.
(Thanks to this article at “A List Apart” by Elika Etemad and Jorunn Danielsen Newth).
For that reasons i feel usefull to have a carefully selected list of fatfree-and-mobile-friendy web sites at hand. For example, in my case I use the following sites:
* Google Mobile,
* Gmail mobile,
* Google gateway to mobile friendly (I don’t know its official name)…
On the other hand, this mobile friendly bookmarks list will ideally fullfil the following requirements:
* be available from anywhere,
* be available from any browser (mobile or not),
* be short.
The first idea that comes to my mind to maintain that — reduced — list is to save it in my del.icio.us account and tag each entry using a special tag. In my case I’ll use “@mb” — for mobile bookmark.
The problem about del.icio.us is that, as far as I know, it doesn’t provide a mobile friendly version of itself.
Fortunately, Steve Rubel (Micro Persuasion) give us some tricks in its Del.icio.us Mobile article, to get a fatfree version of your del.icio.us pages.
In my case I choose to use the option 2 trick, reducing entries tagged with my special “mobile bookmark” tag: http://del.icio.us/html/adumont/@mb/?tags=no&rssbutton=no.
How can this be finally usefull: use that link (customized to your needs) as your favorite browser homepage will hopefully help improving your web browsing experience using mobile device.
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