Session Notes: Mobile Best Practices

Posted January 23rd, 2012 by Jason Weaver & filed under mobile.

In our session Mobile Best Practices, Clark Wimberly and I used mobilewebbestpractices.com as a launching point.

Here are some links from the session:

• Making phone numbers linkable
• Using new css3 and vendor prefixes on mobile
• is_iphone

Nice mobile sites mentioned

• Android and Me
• The Verge
• You Tube Mobile

2 Responses to “Session Notes: Mobile Best Practices”

1. Clark Wimberly January 24, 2012

   Does iOS not make phone numbers into links automatically? As far as I can tell, my Android device recognizes those numbers even without the special markup.

2. Jason Weaver January 24, 2012

   Yes, most mobile browsers do a good job of auto detecting for phone numbers. A quick check on my Android device I noticed mobile Firefox does not. Making them linkable with the correct markup is good way to make sure the user is aware that the number is actionable. Some mobile browsers don’t make this obvious so I’m going to start making sure that I implement the markup from now on. It’s nice to have those anchor tags in there to style them up.