Validation

Post Markup Directly to mobiReady.com

ruadhan — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:33:37 +0000

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.

Ready.mobi API has landed

ruadhan — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:15:51 +0000

Well, is landing. We're just about ready to start beta testing on ready.mobi v2.2 aka API release. We've been planning this for a while, and a few of you have already had a sneak preview, but before we launch it fully, we invite any interested parties to try out the beta.

Screencast: Beginning Mobile Web Development

admin — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:48:57 +0000

In order to help web developers who are already familiar with authoring for the PC-internet adapt their skills to mobile, mTLD provides a short online course that help explains the different techniques that are required for creating a mobile site. This course is completely free of charge and streamed directly to your browser.

Caveat validator, or DTD anyone?

ruadhan — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 08:41:56 +0000

A short time ago while playing around with markup validators I encountered an interesting problem. This problem has also been mentioned on the wmlprogramming list, but it's worthy of a bit more explanation. I received a validation error, and at first I thought the cause was bad XHTML markup. As I investigated however, I realised that every document with a particular DOCTYPE was encountering the same problem...

Announcing ready.mobi v2.0

ruadhan — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:49:35 +0000

For those who haven't seen it yet, we've gone live with ready.mobi v2.0 (We were going to call v1.1, but the new features are so cool we figured it was worth bumping up to 2.0).

Version 2.0 rocks. New features include

Ready.mobi v1.1

ruadhan — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 23:02:09 +0000

We've been very busy working on this one, and we can finally unveil Ready.mobi v1.1. Our testing tool has had a major upgrade in version 1.1: no more page-by-page testing! You can now test a whole site with a click of a button. Want to get your hands on this? Then read on...

Ready.mobi feature update

ruadhan — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:59:43 +0000

Just a quick ready.mobi feature update. We’ve had a few problems in the past with the "weight" of the results page of ready.mobi. In particular the Java emulators and Flash charts can slow down your browser considerably (particularly Internet Explorer). As a result we’ve had a number of requests to add an option to disable the charts and emulators. And that's what we've done

New release of ready.mobi

ruadhan — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:30:09 +0000

I'm pleased to announce we've released a new version of the ready.mobi report. We're very close to signing off on version 1.0. Aside from bug-fixes and general stablility improvement, some of the new features include

Web Developer's Guide released

ronan — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:13:20 +0000

I am proud to announce we recently posted the dotMobi Mobile Web Developer's Guide on mobiForge. This is quite a comprehensive guide to mobile web developement. It layers on the advice from the W3C's Mobile Web Initiative Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 document, but takes it further.