- Best Practices - Posted by ruadhan 28 weeks 5 days ago
Post Markup Directly to mobiReady.com- If you missed our newsletter yesterday you are probably not aware of a small announcement we made in it. We've pushed out a few updates to mobiReady.com, our mobile-readiness page testing tool. The most significant change is that you can now post markup directly to the service, instead of posting a URL for the service to visit and test.
- Best Practices - Posted by ruadhan 51 weeks 6 days ago
Getting started with the ready.mobi API- Ready.mobi is a well known page testing tool offered by dotMobi. When you supply a page URL to ready.mobi, it evaluates how well the page is likely to display on mobile devices by testing against the Mobile Web Best Practices, and dotMobi compliance rules.
- Best Practices - Posted by ruadhan 51 weeks 6 days ago
Ready.mobi API update- We've just gone live with an new version of the ready.mobi API. (Full details and code samples here). So what's new in this version? The most notable feature in this version is the ability to post markup directly to the ready.mobi API without having to supply a publicly accessible URL to the service. This is the result of some early feedback on the API that during the development cycle pages often did not have a public URL, and so they could not be tested with ready.mobi.
- dotMobi Compliance - Posted by ruadhan 2 years 5 weeks ago
Fixit - Image Resizing- Images such as bitmaps have an intrinsic pixel size. Telling the browser in advance what the size is avoids it having to re-flow the page when it receives it. Resizing images at the server reduces the amount of data transferred and the amount of processing the client has to carry out to scale the image.
- dotMobi Compliance - Posted by ruadhan 2 years 6 weeks ago
Fixit - Measures- Avoiding pixel and absolute measures allows the browser to adapt content to fit the display, though there are exceptions to this rule (see below). This test checks for the use of absolulte and pixel measures where relative measures would be more appropriate
- dotMobi Compliance - Posted by ruadhan 2 years 6 weeks ago
Fixit - Tables- This test determines if your page uses tables. Tables do not work well on limited size screens and may result in the user having to scroll horizontally to read them. Putting navigational links into tables may result in the user having both to scroll horizontally and vertically to see possible navigational choices.
- dotMobi Compliance - Posted by ruadhan 2 years 6 weeks ago
Fixit - Tables for layout- This test attempts to determines if your page is using tables for layout purposes. Tables should be used to present tabular data, rather than to control the layout of a page. The problems associated with using tables for layout are well documented. In particular, they generally require more markup and take longer to render than acheiving the same with CSS.
- dotMobi Compliance - Posted by ruadhan 2 years 7 weeks ago
Fixit - Nested Tables- This test determines if your page make use of nested tables. Mobile devices often cannot display nested tables correctly. When a mobile device is capable of displaying nested tables, the computations required to render the tables can consume lot of CPU and add to the display time for the page.
- dotMobi Compliance - Posted by ruadhan 2 years 7 weeks ago
Fixit - External Resources- This test determines how many externally linked resources your page relies on. Linked resources include images, stylesheets and other objects. Each externally linked resource requires a separate request across the network. This may add a significant amount to the page load time in the mobile context.
- dotMobi Compliance - Posted by ruadhan 2 years 10 weeks ago
Fixit - No Frames- Frames are not supported on many mobile devices, and using them may have unpredictable results. Frames are also considered as being generally problematic. This test checks that your page does not use frames.


