DotMobi Best Practices

Welcome to the dotMobi best practices forum

ruadhan — Fri, 09 May 2008 19:34:01 +0000

This forum can be used to discuss the dotMobi mandatory rules and best practices. You can also talk about the dotMobi styleguides and any other dotMobi developer guidelines or issues.

.htaccess Redirect Between 2 Domain Names?

ebloom — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:46:28 +0000

Trying to figure out if it is possible to use .htaccess to do BOTH of these:

1) Redirect from www.example.com desktop website to www.example.mobi mobile website.

2) Allow user to click link "View Desktop Website" on mobile site back to desktop site if they desire without being redirected.

Found solutions if mobile site uses a subdomain i.e. www.m.example.com but can't find anything or if it's possible to use .htaccess to work with 2 different domain names .com and .mobi

Mobile URL strategy

zenstruck — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:28:19 +0000

I am going to be using jQuery Mobile to create a mobile version of my site.

My question is about the best practice on the location of the mobile site, specifically, the URL. I am looking into two options:

1. Just detect whether the user is mobile and serve them a mobile template, no need for a separate URL for the mobile site. For example, mysite.com/foo/bar would have a mobile and desktop version of the page. My site uses HTTP cache and this would complicate things...

Buying phones to test apps

Pawlet — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:18:09 +0000

Hi there,
Is it necessary to purchase the phone that one wants to develop an app for?
If yes, is there a way to purchase at a discount?
If no, please expain why not....
Really appreciate ANY assistance with these questions.
Thanks bunches!

Does DotMobi have a recommened max useragent length ?

clafleur — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:40:14 +0000

What is the max length of a useragent for Device Atlas?
i have processed many useragent string and the longest useragent that is found via the JSON api is 52.
But I have many other useragent string now found.
I would like to know if I can reduce the storage needs by substringing.
But I do not want to shrink the string if I am going to use it in the future to lookup in the API.

So is there a max length of a Device Atlas useragent?

XHTML MP or Basic?

Maria_KU — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:36:23 +0000

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out, is XHTML MP the current standard to follow when writing .mobi sites?

I was confused by the following on the Wikipedia page for XHTML MP: "XHTML Basic 1.1 became a W3C Recommendation in July 2008, superseding XHTML-MP 1.2."

I'm new to mobile web design but want to give a brief introduction to the subject to a class of undergrads. I'll be using lots of the great resources on this site, but don't want to mis-inform them about which standard to use.

Any advice gratefully received!

Thanks.

Still Says DOC Type invalid

StantonR — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:25:06 +0000

Hi There

I have set my DOCTYPE to the following

On page preinit I am setting my ContentType to
Page.Response.ContentType = "application/xhtml+xml";
I have tried testing in the Mobi ready website but it still says my XML mobile profile is incorrect what else do I need to do.

All my html tags and server side tages are configured correctly.

Thanks
Stanton

How to tell a web browser that a number is not a phone number?

UziTech — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:58:21 +0000

When making a mobile site I know you can set a link to call a number by using <a href="tel:1234567"></a> but most browsers will take any number and assume it is a phone number and make it a link. Is there any way to tell a browser that a number is not a phone number, so when someone clicks on it it acts the same as if they clicked on any other not link text (does nothing)?

mobileok analytics

Orbit Ooze — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:59:31 +0000

I am creating a web site for a project i am doing. The site is currently 95% mobileok compatible. However i am interested in tracking the traffic for my site and have decided on using analytics software. However google analytics uses javascript which will make my site less compatible with the mobileok standards. Does anyone know of any free analytics software that is mobileok compatible that i can use to track my web site traffic?

Sincerely,

Orbit Ooze

Cross Platform, Native Apps via Offline, Mobile, Web Applications

Ikeness — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:24:17 +0000

My company has developed a number of .NET Compact Framework applications for windows mobile devices.
These are business apps that all basically do the following:
1. Sync data with a server when the device is docked (has internet connection)
2. Let the user view/edit data when in a disconnected state (doesn't have internet connection)
3. Repeat
We have been using compact versions of mssql and oracle on mobile devices for storing data on mobile devices.

However, we would like our applications to be less platform dependent.