Testing, dotMobi Compliance

Ready.mobi v2.1.1 is live

ruadhan — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:47:39 +0000

You can probably guess by the version number 2.1.1 (from 2.1), there is nothing ground-breaking in this release. Just a few more bug fixes. In particular we have fixed a bug that caused the use of multiple <hr/> tags in your markup to reduce your overall score.

Fixit - Image Resizing

ruadhan — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:26:09 +0000

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.

Fixit - Measures

ruadhan — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:03:47 +0000

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

Fixit - Tables

ruadhan — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:45:21 +0000

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.

Fixit - Tables for layout

ruadhan — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:50:07 +0000

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.

Fixit - Nested Tables

ruadhan — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:19:48 +0000

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.

Fixit - External Resources

ruadhan — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:34:28 +0000

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.

Fixit - No Frames

ruadhan — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:36:43 +0000

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.

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

Fixit - Pop up windows

ruadhan — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:42:34 +0000

Pop-up windows are not supported on many mobile devices, and using them can have unpredicatable results. This test checks that you are not using pop up windows in your markup.