At least for the top mobile browsers such as Nokia S60, the Safari
version for iPhone and Opera's mobile browsers, they can cope with
full HTML and XHTML and CSS, so they can handle the regular desktop
site. Some render the page in desktop mode, and some reformat the
page to fit in one
Katrina
I would serve XHTML and stick to XHTML-Basic or XHTML-MP subset of features.
Because not all elements are available in XHTML-Basic or XHTML-MP for
example button. So if you build a form use input type=submit not button
type=submit otherwise most mobile users will not be able to submit
Nick Cowie wrote:
Katrina
I would serve XHTML and stick to XHTML-Basic or XHTML-MP subset of
features.
Gday Nick,
Thank you for your response :
Which accompanying mime type would you choose for XHTML-Basic?
text/xml
application/xhtml + xml
application/xml
Note: XHTML-MP has it's
Hi,
You may find the following dotmobi tools helpful:
Free online mobile-readiness report,
http://ready.mobi/launch.jsp?locale=en_EN
Free online mobile emulator,
http://emulator.mtld.mobi/emulator.php
The W3C tests that these are based on is here:
http://www.w3.org/TR/mobileOK-basic10-tests/
Hi Katrina
I have not done enough research on this, but:
If I creating a site that I expected mobile browsers to visit (ie every site
I create from now) I would use XHTML 1.0 transitional DTD, mime type of
text/html and restrict my XHTML to the XHTML-MP subset and my CSS to the
WCSS subset
If
You may find a lot of real-world info here:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wmlprogramming/
It might not be to everyone's taste, as the group is often critical of
the W3C and its mobile efforts, perceived as choosing theoretical
constructs over what real handsets are out there in the
Gday,
What mark-up is best used for mobile devices? And why?
W3C standards (HTML4 or XHTML 1.0) or other (XHTML-Basic, XHTML-MP, WML,
HDML) ?
Do the 'other' count as standards?
Can mobile devices process CSS 2.1 or less when served as
media=handheld? (I am coming across some references to
