Browsing Web Sites with Mobiles and Desktops
The selection of accessing the Web from mobile devices or from desktop computers usually depends on the user needs and location. The use of desktop computers provides larger screen size, broadband connection, the ability to run many applications simultaneously, and the use of tabs for browsing several sites. Desktop computers utilize a pointing device to click over the different fields and buttons to access, hence the chance to get a miss click is very rare. In case of mobile devices , the use of touch taps over the screen by fingers or by using a stylus increases the chances of miss tap due to the fact that the users are touching the area of the screen not the exact pixels. Reversing an action in a desktop browser for example is easy to handle when compared to that of a mobile browser which is more time consuming.
As mobile Internet is growing fast, for example, use of mobile search has grown by 500% over the past two years, while average Smartphone usage almost tripled in 2011. Many researchers are predicting that mobile Internet use will replace the desktop Internet use and is predicted to overtake in 2015. Mobile Internet usage is now a mass market with 69% of users having connection to the Internet through a mobile device in 2012. Smartphones are the most popular mobile access method to the Internet with 61% of respondents using Smartphones versus 37% for notebooks and 22% for tablets. Age is a differentiating factor with 82% of those aged 14-29 accessing the Internet on a mobile device versus only 45% for people above 50
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Future of Web and its Applications
Researchers aims to enable users to access all their home devices and to manage them all from mobile devices, or enable users to do all their life activates through mobile devices. Mobile users could check where is the car is parked now or even access and manage it. Client can order car from limousine service provider and most companies now enable their clients to check where the car is and know how far it is. This may sound like science-fiction right in the past, but most of this technology is available now in several parts of the world.
This evolution of handheld devices combined with new high-speed wireless data networks made browsing the mobile Internet a more compelling experience. This phenomenon is like the transition of the Internet when broadband access became widely attainable. The mobile Web is turning a corner and becoming useful to most users. In this article a survey of the literature concerning the Mobile Web and the cloud computing technologies is presented. The main concern is to provide the foundations for merging the two technologies in a mobile cloud computing model .
The mobile Web is simply accessing the World Wide Web (WWW) from mobile devices ranging from cellular phones to iPod touch. Such access does not require a desktop computer or a fixed landline connection. It constitutes the entirety of the Internet and is not limited to websites which have been specifically designed for mobile viewing. Handsets and mobile phones which have Web capabilities can search and browse the Internet from any place with a cellular signal available. Websites which are made especially for the small screen appear as scaled-back versions of their desktop counterparts, often with a numbered menu system for quick access to content. Web destinations which do not have mobile versions appear as if they were squeezed onto the tiny screen, and oftentimes have overlapping menus and links.
A study shows that by the end of 2013, the number of mobile connected devices will exceed the number of people on earth, and by 2017 there will be nearly 1.4 mobile devices per capita. There will be over 10 billion mobile-connected devices in 2017, including machine-to-machine (M2M) modules-exceeding the world’s population at that time (7.6 billion). Global mobile data traffic grew 70 percent in 2012. Global mobile data traffic reached 885 petabytes per month at the end of 2012, up from 520 petabytes per month at the end of 2011.
Mobile Web access today still suffers from interoperability and usability problems. This is partly due to the incompatibility of the format of much of the information available on the Internet with mobile devices, and partly due to the small processing power of the hard ware of mobile devices. The fact that most of the Internet video applications can be categorized as cloud applications, the mobile cloud traffic follows a curve similar to that of video applications. Mobile devices have memory and speed limitations that might prevent them from acting as media consumption devices, which can be substituted for cloud applications and services . For example, cloud applications and services such as Netflix, YouTube , Pandora, and Spotify allow mobile users to overcome the memory capacity and processing power limitations of mobile devices. Globally, cloud applications will account for 84 percent of total mobile data traffic in 2017, compared to 74 percent at the end of 2012.
Another key finding from the data is the type of application generating these data consumption trends. For smart phones and tablets globally, the top three application types are the same for both device types, although they differ in percentage rates. Video streaming and communications applications such as YouTube , Hulu, and Netflix rank highest on both device platforms, although data consumption is slightly higher on tablets. Information applications rank second on tablets (Google Maps, PulseNews, and Wall Street Journal). Social networking (Facebook and Twitter) ranks higher on smart phone, perhaps because the increased mobility of smart phones that allows users to instantly connect socially.
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8 Web Design Challenges to Tackle When Designing for the Mobile Web Site
The top 8 design challenges to tackle when designing for the mobile Web . Many of these challenges should also be taken into consideration when designing mobile apps as well.
- Lack of a hover state
The ability to hover mouse over an image, icon or text to see reference information or options, is absent. On mobile platforms and devices, features can generally be accessed in two ways, visibly or through convention. Visible content is accessible visually from navigation elements that are built into the design or application . Convention features utilize mobile design conventions or gestures such as swiping, shaking or pull to refresh/reload.
2. Slow and error-prone typing
Typing on a touch keyboard is often a slow and error prone experience no matter what size your fingers are. Helping the users with features like auto complete functionality, inline & address validation and allowing users to review pages before submission can help with this issue.
3. Reduced context
Smaller screens limit the amount of information that can help keep a user on track especially those who need to zoom in to view content in a readable state.
4. Decreased accuracy of clicking links and button
Small size problem and proximity of clickable (or touchable) elements, control buttons, and navigation bars are severe, especially with the lack of a hover state challenge.
5. No right-click
As the right click menu acts as a context based shortcut for common features, most mobile devices lack this option. In some brands, try using a ‘tab-and-hold’ gesture instead.
6. Poor connectivity
Mobile devices are usually associated with the intermittent connectivity issues and the slow download speed. It’s really a two pronged issue:
- No connection: While users probably won’t expect offline mode from the website provider, at least there must be a way to handle lost connections gracefully
- Slow download speeds: If Web content should be usable on slower connections, then it is highly desirable to make footprint as small as possible by implementing aggressive asset caching, Using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS3), etc.
7. Slow hardware
While the performance of touch devices is improving rapidly, still are slow when compared with desktop computers. Issues left for web designers of slow hardware include transitions effects and animations.
8. Usage situation
Due to the fact that the unique feature of mobile devices is mobility, there must be a consideration of the impact of real world distractions, a speaker announcement, walking in traffic, etc. Another and possibly important sources of distractions are the digital interruptions text messages, phone calls, push notifications, etc.
The mobile browsers are associated with the same limitations like the mobile Web, such as:
- Small screen size: This makes it difficult or impossible to see text and graphics available on the standard size of a desktop computer screen,
- Lack of windows: Ability to open several windows simultaneously and switch easily
- Navigation: No mouse, thereby limiting the flexibility in navigation
- Lack of JavaScript and cookies: Most mobile devices do not support client-side scripting and storage of cookies except some smart phones and iPhones, which is not suitable for uniquely identifying visitors using mobile devices
- Speed: Most mobile devices speed of service is very slow, often slower than dial-up Internet access
- Types of pages content like (Flash, PDF …)
- Compressed pages
- Size of messages: Many mobile devices have limitation on the number of characters that can be sent in an email message
- Cost: Access and bandwidth charges levied by cell phone networks are much higher than those for fixed-line Internet access.
Currently, vendors of mobile devices attempt to solve most of the previous problems thought developing some strategies like increasing the screen size, enhancing the hard resources (CPU & memory), developing new Operating Systems (OS), improving the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) network, or adding network cards to provide the wireless access thought the Wi-Fi technology.
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