Code stuff about Mobile Development on Jul 17, 2009 Write comment

Palm’s Mojo SDK, aka webOS SDK, now available

I’ve just read that Palm’s Mojo SDK, the software development kit for it’s Palm Pre mobile phone, is now available for download. You can read the details at Connected Phone. To create software applications on the Palm webOS is probably not any different than creating your web applications since it uses HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

As an aside, do you know that the core of the webOS runs on Linux, an open sourced operating system? Also do you know that the developer site of Palm’s webOS uses Joomla while the developer blog uses WordPress — just some trivia facts for you. :-)

Code stuff about HTML on Aug 25, 2008 Write comment

Using mailto links in web pages

Yesterday, I found myself in a situation, wherein I wanted to provide a mailto link that will not only include a subject but also an initial body when a web site visitor clicks on the link.

I was quite sure that it was possible but couldn’t remember how to do it so after some googling, I found a “MailTo Syntax” page that describes how it’s done.

In the message body you can actually include html links that a person can email to friends. You’ll just have to url encode the text so that it will be properly included in the email message body when the user clicks on the link. If you need a url encoder, you can use this online form.