You Don’t Know Mobile

By

Ara Pehlivanian

– July 7, 2010Posted in: Code, Feature, July 2010

Photo Credit: John Resig

John Resig isn’t your average developer. He created the jQuery JavaScript library. He’s a former evangelist at Mozilla Corporation and currently a tools developer there. He travels and speaks regularly and he’s an author currently working on his second book, “Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja.”

I recently had a conversation with John about the work he’s doing in the mobile space. Here’s that conversation for your listening pleasure:

Download the mp3 or ogg.

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About the Author

Ara has been working on the Web since 1997. He’s been a freelancer, a webmaster, a front-end web developer and practice lead and most recently, a Front End Engineer at Yahoo! Ara’s experience comes from having worked on every aspect of web development throughout his career, but he’s now following his passion for web standards-based front-end development. When he isn’t speaking and writing about best practices or coding professionally, he’s maintaining his personal site at http://arapehlivanian.com/.

12 Comments

1. TigerMunky

   Posted July 7, 2010 at 6:58 PM

   shweet! : )

   TM

2. Jim Amod

   Posted July 7, 2010 at 9:00 PM

   Was looking forward to listening but i don’t see how on my Android phone. Any chance the mobile version of Webstyle will be more Android friendly in future?

3. Ara Pehlivanian

   Posted July 7, 2010 at 11:55 PM

   @Jim: For the moment I’m just using a WordPress plugin that displays an HTML5 player. If you’ve got suggestions on how to make the mp3/ogg file more accessible to Android users, I’d be more than happy to oblige. Would a direct link to the file suffice?

4. til

   Posted July 8, 2010 at 2:53 AM

   @Ara: same problem for me (on the standard browser on android 2.1) – a bit ironic in this case ;)

   An additional direct link to the sound file(s) would most definitely be a good thing.

5. Ara Pehlivanian

   Posted July 8, 2010 at 6:46 AM

   @Jim & @til: I’ve put a direct link to both mp3 and ogg versions of the interview. I hope that helps.

6. Jim Amos

   Posted July 8, 2010 at 8:01 AM

   Much better. Thanks!

7. David Calhoun

   Posted July 9, 2010 at 2:07 PM

   Thanks for putting this together, Ara and John. It’s nice to see progress being made on sorting out this mess.

   Is it really true that mobile only accounts for 1% of internet traffic? I wonder where that statistic is from, and how to reconcile that with other studies that predict that mobile web usage will overtake the desktop soon (http://mashable.com/2010/04/13/mobile-web-stats/).

   In any case, I think a conservative estimate would be that there will be more focus on mobile in the coming years. We’re already seeing an increased interest from everyone from developers to actual users.

8. John Resig

   Posted July 9, 2010 at 7:29 PM

   David: You can find additional desktop vs. mobile data here:
   http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_vs_desktop-ww-monthly-200906-201007

   Right now (July 2010) it looks like mobile is about 2.7% of the total usage.

9. Kyle Barrow

   Posted July 17, 2010 at 9:47 PM

   Statcounter et al are notoriously bad at reporting mobile stats: a service in English is not going to represent accurate usage in a massive mobile market like Japan.

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