4. Mobile for gov
This DotGovLabs project brings together the three website's mobile groups. The project is working to establish a shared common picture of the existing position of the mobile market, how different users (citizens, business and patients) use their mobile and what the opportunities there are for government to create mobile interactions that are useful to our user groups. The project then pulls together information from network providers, application developers and handset manufacturers to understand the mobile technology roadmap for the next 2 years This is a fast moving market and taking time to define the future technology roadmap will allow strategic decisions to be made that may challenge our current thinking and will be based on awareness not just of what is available today but what will be offered to users over the next 2 years.
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Mobile internet is the
Mobile internet is the future. Working on my own website providing Scarborough Tourist Information I've been trying to make it compatible with mobile handsets. The trouble is that every handset displays the site differently- not how it is intended to look!
Mobile web browsers at
Mobile web browsers at getting more and more intelligent and pretty much up able to cope with websites built to W3C (http://www.w3.org/) standards. Mobile Internet (information on tap - access any where and any time) on touch-aware mobile devices (e.g. iphone, android devices, ipad etc) is the future.
Mobile websites do not have to be boring (see http://www.creotec.com/mobile-website-design/ or http://ukgov.mobi/) - when building for mobile - you only need to primarily deliver information and services that you believe your users are likely to want to access on the move.
For your website, you might find these websites useful:
http://html5.org/
http://jquerymobile.com/
http://jqtouch.com/