WANTED! For crimes against mobile operating systems…

Today one of Wapple’s community members posted a link on our forums to this article and asked for thoughts on it.  The title of the article is “Who cares about anything except iOS and Android?”. Well, I care deeply and I imagine you do too. I care for EVERY mobile OS and ALL the many thousands [...]

Mobile web drives customers to car purchases

Every week eBay sells more than 2,000 cars on mobile web as customers increasingly use their mobiles to buy a new car. This trend underscores why it is vital for all manufacturers, dealers and classified ad companies to have mobile-optimised websites. Some are more ahead of the curve than others. In its recent campaign for [...]

The FT’s Strategy to Focus on Mobile Web

Traditional print media in the UK is in supposed turmoil hence major publishers efforts to achieve the most profitable digital strategy. The Times using a paywall for content, The Guardian describing itself as a ‘digital-first’ organisation and now the Financial Times eschewing Apple’s App Store for a browser-based mobile web application. The FT has always [...]

Google says 79% of its largest ad customers do not have a mobile-optimised site

Google has just conducted a study looking into the post-click experience for its biggest advertisers in mobile. Astonishingly, the company found that only 21% of these huge advertisers had a mobile-optimised web presence. That’s millions and millions of page views and ad spend without any respect for the mobile user. Google used 200 diagnostic points [...]

Input image submit buttons

If you’ve ever tried to design a nice submit button for your mobile site, you’ll know what a pain it is. One option is to design it with CSS – add a border here, a background there, and you’ll get something that looks a little bit like a button. Take advantage of some CSS3 features [...]

404 pages on Canvas powered mobile sites

We’ve added a great new little feature into Wapple Canvas recently – the ability to design and create a page in your site, and assign it as a 404. So if someone hits your site but ends up on a URL they shouldn’t, you can now create a handy 404 page that might have links [...]

More dynamic rules..

As we’ve talked about previously, we have some awesome dynamic activation and suppression rules. They allow you to tailor chunks of functionality so they only appear on specific versions of a particular mobile operating system – and up to now, we only enabled it for the BlackBerry OS. We promised that there would be more, [...]

Phonecall chunk with International dialling

Previously, with the phonecall chunk, you’ve not been able to specify an overseas number – or rather you have, but no-one from overseas can dial it. You now have an option in Wapple Canvas, and an element in WAPL that allows you to specify a +, or 00, or whatever your international dialling prefix is. [...]

Improved Image Processing with Wapple Canvas

We’ve been busy at Wapple Towers lately – creating a new image processor that make your Canvas powered sites look even better, allowing you to retain your brand that much more impressively! We now take advantage of mobile handsets browser capabilities – if they support transparent PNGs, and you’ve uploaded one, we deliver it. And [...]

Wapple’s Dynamic Activation and Suppression Rules

Ever since Wapple Canvas was created, there have been rules. Rules to check if videos are supported, rules to check for active campaigns, rules to check for specific screen sizes. Of course we have hundreds of others, but something missing from all of them was the ability to have customizable rules to specify your own [...]