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When you are developing mobile websites, it is very important to have a rich Toolset that helps you in evaluating your mobile creations. This is not only for yourself, but also to reassure the client that you have the development under completely under control.

Screensizes and browser capabilities can change the look and feel of your site drastically... So better prepare!

As maintainter of the Drupal Mobile Tools module I often get the question how device detection works when caching is enabled (e.g. with Boost).

Several solutions are emerging. Two of them worth looking at:

- http://www.projectronin.com/blog/?p=10
- http://www.idelfuschini.it/en/apache-mobile-filter-v2x.html

Both are doing device detection in apache.

We are working hard these days to make sure that OSMOBI enables Drupal and Joomla! developers to go mobile with their existing installations, and this by doing a minimum of effort (and cost).

Since our Beta launch on Drupalcon Paris, we have come a long way towards creating this service. Build on top of our open source content transcoder we allow automated transcoding of your site + optimization using a (hopefully :)) user friendly GUI.

And today we are happy to announce a new OSMOBI release. Most notable changes are:

• Performance gains of the Joomla! plugin and Drupal module
• Support for image resizing
• More customization possible of the default theme
• Applying style changes to "id", "class" attributes and the choice of applying them to the current page, or all pages.
• ....

For who want's to take a look at the architecture, we have published our manual.