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Mobile features for your website
HTML API’s that you can use to add more functionality to your website
For a long time now, website developers have been using mobile first principal and it’s been essential to ensure website work nicely on a small screen mobile device. There isn’t anything new there, after all, mobile phone usage is already most likely where a majority of website traffic comes from. It’s just so convenient for people these days.
I’m a dinosaur that very much dislikes trying to browse websites on my mobile device and more often than not I’ll send the link to myself and check it out when I’m back at my computer. However, a large majority of users would be completely lost without being able to use their mobile device to browse the web.
So I thought today I’d look at a few little things that can be done to help make a users mobile experience a little nicer.
#1 — Camera Access
Lets say part of your website requires the user to upload a picture of something. It’s most likely part of a form with a file tag in there to allow the upload of a picture. The user might have to close the browser, open their camera, take the photo, go back to the browser, click the button and upload their photo. It’s not hard, but it’s not the easiest solution either.
