Research & Analysis
Caveat validator, or DTD anyone?
September 7, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
A short time ago while playing around with markup validators I encountered an interesting problem. This problem has also been mentioned on the wmlprogramming list, but it's worthy of a bit more explanation. I received a validation error, and at first I thought the cause was bad XHTML markup. As I investigated however, I realised that every document with a particular DOCTYPE was encountering the same problem... Read More
The worst practices of the mobile web.
August 15, 2007, by Cyril
It's more usual to give good examples and best practices, but since I'm visiting and analyzing .mobi websites, and I have seen so many bad things, I decided take the snake by the tail. Feel free to avoid these worst practices. At the head of the hall of shame, I claim... Read More
Still not convinced that 2007 is “The Year of the Mobile Web”?
August 9, 2007, by James Pearce
Any top-level domain is only as good as the sites that use it..mobi is no different. We're a very young domain registry, and we've made amazing progress with the domain uptake. But, like many registries, a large part of our mission is to stimulate the growth of content.But what adds to dotMobi's responsibility in particular, I think, is an awareness that .mobi sites are, in a way, uniquely representative of a whole new medium: the mobile web.That's certainly we take that responsibility very seriously. Our developer community, tools, publications and resources are all designed to help grow the mobile web. On mobiForge, we service many thousands of signed-up mobile developers and their needs every day, even those that are not (yet! :-) ) running their sites on .mobi domains.As a result I feel fairly confident that our domain uptake, the numbers of live sites - not to mention the success of the mobiForge community itself - are valuable barometers for the sector as a whole.So I thought I'd share some interesting statistics with you... Read More
Building a mobile device test suite
August 9, 2007, by atrasatti
Building a test suite might seem like a simple task at first sight, but unfortunately it is not like that. First of all you need to decide what properties you want to test, and since we are talking about mobile devices there are so many things to test that it becomes hard to make a decision... Read More
Get Rich Slowly or, Mobile Advertising: how to monetize your mobile site, Part 2
July 5, 2007, by admin
As promised in our previous feature (Mobile advertising: how to monetize your mobile site) we're following up our experiments with some findings. As you may recall from part I of this article, rather than talking about mobile advertising in theory, we decided to actually try it out on mobiForge to see how well it works in practice... Read More
