Design & Development
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
Comparison of CSS 2.1, CSS MP, WCSS and CSS Level 1
January 18, 2007, by Jo Rabin
This tables summarizes the differences between the different flavours of CSS that are in use and is a useful reference for developers who are making the transition from from PC web design to mobile web design. Version 0.9 (Draft), 29 Jan 2007 Jo Rabin Some references are works in progress and are subject to change... Read More
Creating Mobile Sites in Drupal Using Multisites
January 18, 2007, by admin
This article provides a quick way to make your Drupal site accessible to mobile devices through two options: Have a one site serve multiple devices using one code baseUse multisites to render content accordingly using one code baseBy doing this your site should be simultaneously available to both mobile and desktop browsers... Read More
Top Firefox extensions for mobile content development
November 29, 2006, by admin
After putting up a poll about which Firefox extensions are most useful for mobile web developers, a number of people suggested that there should be a separate page to list these. My personal list is as follows:Web Developer ToolbarChris Pederick's toolbar isn't a mobile-specific extension but is nonetheless extremely handy since it lets you do quite a few different things from seeing information about the current page to turning on and off various DOM elements. The page size indicator is particularly useful since it adds up http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/... Read More
