Tag Archives: Best Practices
Fixit – XHTML Mobile Profile
March 9, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
This test attempts to determine if you are using markup appropriate for the mobile context. dotMobi recommends that you use XHTML Mobile Profile. You may use any of the markup specifications listed below which are optimised for mobile and satisfy this recommendation... Read More
Fixit – Valid Markup
March 8, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
This test runs an XML parser on your document to check if your page validates against its specified schema. A schema (or DTD) constrains the structure and content of an XML document. An XML document which is well-formed and which complies with its schema is said to be valid. Put simply, the schema specifies rules about the structure and content of a document, and your document must follow these rules (as well as general XML well-formedness rules). If the XML parser finds something wrong with your document, then an error message will be displayed. Some errors cause the parser to stop dead in its tracks, while some errors are not so serious, and the parser can continue... Read More
dotMobi Mobile Web Developer’s Guide
March 8, 2007, by ronan
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 development. It layers on the advice from the W3C's Mobile Web Initiative Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 document, but takes it further... Read More
mobileOK Basic – it has teeth!
November 13, 2006, by Jo Rabin
The W3C announced today the second public draft of the mobileOK test document (the first of mobileOK Basic as it is now known). The document is has changed a lot since the version of the 12th July and I thought I'd take some time to look at some of the ways in which it has changed and to give some personal thoughts about its significance to the development of the Mobile Web... Read More
Best Practices becomes Proposed Recommendation
November 3, 2006, by Jo Rabin
The W3C announced yesterday that the Mobile Web Best Practices had become a Proposed Recommendation. This means it has passed a number of important milestones of review by members of the Working Group that created it, members of the W3C and the public. There's one more step to go before it becomes a full recommendation... Read More
