Comments on: On designing a mobile webpage (Mobile web part 4)

By: Radiant

Radiant — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:04:46 +0000

@Dee

Even the article you cite states that most agree use of Singular They is inappropriate in formal writing. And since English would be in a far better state if internet authors treated their writing as formal, I believe Stefan is correct.

By: Class 5 | davidpierce.org

Class 5 | davidpierce.org — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:37:14 +0000

[...] for next week: Designing a Mobile HTML Page Building Mobile Web Apps the Right [...]

By: Dee

Dee — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:30:18 +0000

@Stefan Nowak:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

By: Mobile web开发之道 | 享受阳光生活！

Mobile web开发之道 | 享受阳光生活！ — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:38:43 +0000

[...] Part 4: On designing a mobile webpage [...]

By: Stefan Nowak

Stefan Nowak — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 18:25:31 +0000

Grammar mistake:
[...] the mobile engineer has to be on their toes [...]
The subject uses singular, but the possessive pronoun plural.
This is a contradiction.

Correct would be either:
The mobile engineers have to be on their toes
Or:
The mobile engineer has to be on her/his toes

By: Steve Stout

Steve Stout — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 02:24:14 +0000

Great writeup! I am just starting to learn how to make a website mobile and this has given me all kinds of good advice. Hopefully I can code something usable within the next month.

Thanks for all of this good advice!

By: Robin Massart

Robin Massart — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:24:38 +0000

Thanks for this very interesting series.

I do however think this side note is unfair:

(As a side note, in the area of computer science, notice how many HUGE tomes there are out there compared to smaller books. I would venture to guess that engineers have a hard time being concise.)

The problem is surely the publishers who insist padding their books with BS – much like those students you mentioned – to ensure the end user feels like he’s getting value-for-money….