Last Wednesday’s Open Web Open Mic event at the Mozilla Toronto office was really great. 50-60 people from the Mozilla Toronto community gathered to discuss their projects via a science fair and a series of lightening talks. I had a good conversation about WebVTT with a group of Seneca students, learned about the upcoming Mini Maker Faire Toronto from Jenn Dodd, and discussed the use of What Can I Do For Mozilla for non coding work with Josh Matthews.
As this was an Open Web event, I took the opportunity to talk about Building for Mobile Web Compatibility.
The takeaways from this presentation are AVOID:
- User Agent (UA) Detection
- CSS Vendor Prefixes
- Browser Specific Property/Feature Usage
Instead, PREFER:
- Feature Detection and Media Queries
- Web Standards
If you would like to see more, I have posted my slides on github.io.
Thank you to everyone who came out to this event and especially to Majken ‘Kensie’ Connor for pulling us all together.
Lawrence Mandel 
Lawrence, does your definition of mobile web compatibility extend to devices that don’t support media queries and feature detection?
In this context I’m referring to devices that have fully capable Web browsers, like the iPhone, Android devices, Blackberry, Windows phone, and Firefox OS.