Mobile Web Weekly November 16, 2016   #134
Brian Rinaldi recommends
The Diminishing Use Case of Hybrid Apps — TJ VanToll says that, while hybrid isn’t going away, use cases that it once fit are better served by progressive web apps or JavaScript-driven native apps.
TJ VanToll
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Rethinking Text Input on Touch Screens — Chris argues that we’ve used a 200 year old typewriter technology for text input on touch devices and it doesn’t work well.
Two Wrongs
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Lazy Loading Responsive Adsense Ads — Osvaldus Valutis looks at what can done to improve the loading of ads when optimizing your site.
CSS Tricks
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Holly Schinsky recommends
How to Build a WebSocket Multi-Client Chat using Ionic and Node.JS — Learn how to build a complete multi-client chat app using Ionic and node.js on the backend.
London App Developer
Peter Cooper recommends
Build the Next Generation Mobile Web — A fun 90 second ad/teaser from Google about how we need a ‘next generation Mobile Web’.
Google Chrome Developers
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Simulate Slow Connections with The Network Throttling Tool — Firefox DevTools has now a network throttling tool to simulate slow connections.
Firefox Nightly News
Peter Cooper recommends
Google Expands AMP, As It Presents A Friendly Face to Publishers — The search giant acknowledged it needs to do more to help publishers monetize their fast-loading mobile pages.
Digiday
Holly Schinsky recommends
AppPresser 3: Make Apps from WordPress Sites — With big improvements for your Wordpress apps, including a new visual app builder, custom pages, free push notifications, and more.
Scott Bolinger
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Desktop Hybrid Apps, Plugins, and IonicNative — A high level look at the concept of having one codebase for hybrid mobile and desktop apps using Ionic.
Todd Halfpenny
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PhoneGap Europe Tour (Dec 5-8 in London and Paris) — The PhoneGap team are coming to Europe to present at various meetup groups.
PhoneGap Blog
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Rethinking Responsive Design — Una argues that the future of responsive design is about much more than screens, including things like VR and physical web.
Una Kravets
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Where Are The World's Best Open Device Labs? — There is no replacement for testing on real devices, and a device lab near you can help you do this.
Gemma Church
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Progressive Web Apps: The Definitive Collection of Resources — A collection of resources from around the web covering the various aspects of building PWAs.
Bruce Lawson and Shwetank Dixit
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Building Indexable Progressive Web Apps — How to make sure that your PWA is both indexable and linkable for improved SEO.
Tom Greenaway
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