The Physical Web is dead, long live the physical web
How to choose media query breakpoints to best support all connected devices
Necessity is the Mother of Invention
Necessity is the Mother of Invention This is more of an observation than anything else. As I was playing around with a few browsers the other day I was noting happily how far things have progressed in terms of functionality since the first buggy firmware ones appeared. An interesting thing is that these third party browsers will have access to a lot of the type of data that used to depend upon the operator gateway to get sent, such as cell ID or MSISDN... 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
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
Web Developer’s Guide released
March 9, 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 developement. 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
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
