Design & Development
Fixit – Provide defaults
March 21, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
When you have a form on your page you should include preset defaults. Doing this may reduced the amount of input the user may have to enter, thus providing a better user-experience. This test checks that you have provided defaults in your form elements where appropriate. The test is not run if the page does not contain a form... Read More
Fixit – Alt Texts
March 20, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
You should consider how your page will render when the images are not available. Making a page readable in text-only mode can help a user assess its usefulness before images arrive. With alt text you can specify a text alternative to an image. This tests determines if you have provided an alternative text for each image in your markup... Read More
Fixit – Caching
March 16, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Caching information can help to reduce the number of resources downloaded by a device. This test determines if cache information has been included with your page... Read More
MyMobileWeb – An open source platform for developing .mobi-compliant applications
March 16, 2007, by admin
Mobile Web development it is not as easy as conventional web development. Programmers must deal with a wide variety of device capabilities, an heterogeneous mix of software versions and different adherence to standards. For instance, there are different handsets (mobile phones, smart phones, PDAs) with different screen resolutions, input modes, memory, CPU constraints, etc... Read More
Fixit – Character encoding
March 15, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
The character encoding of a document specifies how the characters of the document should be interpreted. It is important to specify the correct character encoding for your document so that it will be rendered correctly by the browser. This test determines if you have used the correct character encoding... Read More
