Design & Development
Fixit – MIME types
March 14, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
The MIME type is an internet standard which indicates the format of a message. The MIME type sent by a server provides important information to browsers on how to treat a document. This test determines if your page is being sent with the correct MIME types... Read More
Fixit – Page size limit
March 13, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
This test determines how large your page is. There are two contributing factors to the outcome of this test: the size of the page markup itself, and the total size including markup plus all external stylesheets, images, objects and any other resources that might be referenced by your document... Read More
Fixit – Page title
March 13, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
This test determines if a page has included a page title. A page title should be included to allow easy page identification. Page titles should be short and descriptive. Some devices will use the page title as a label for a bookmark, so the page title should be meaningful... Read More
A Beginner’s Guide to Mobile Web Development
March 9, 2007, by cameronmoll
While accessing the web on a mobile device is nothing new, a renewed interest in developing mobile web content has been ignited by the increased availability of WAP 2.0 devices, an abundance of skilled XHTML developers, and notable efforts by groups such as dotmobi and the W3C’s Mobile Web Initiative... Read More
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
