Sourcebits Mobile

This is a 100% iPhone-optimized version of the Sourcebits Web site. Optimizing for iPhone is the natural choice given that most of the mobile web is browsed on Mobile Safari, but we were sure to make it look great and work properly on Android and WebOS, too. Notice the smooth, subtle animations and intuitive touch-friendly UI controls. Sticking to a clean, less is more esthetic, all the key content of our main Web site is still available but never more than a tap or two away. We spent a long time fine-tuning the entire experience, and along with Gmail and Flickr, we think it’s one of the top mobile Web experiences ever.

The mobile version of sourcebits.com was developed using CSS3 to minimize the use of individual (and slow-loading) images in the UI design. The whole Web site is AJAX-based and uses jQuery for JavaScript effects. It maintains its own browsing history along with the built-in browser history manager, which is not easy for AJAX websites, and it’s powered by a custom CMS developed on the Kohana PHP Framework.

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