Hi Kevin,
The answer is in your e-mail. You have created a page using a version of
XHTML for which the correct MIME type is application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml
or application/xhtml+xml
but you're sending text/html so there is a mismatch, hence the warning.
The recommended markup for mobile is now XHTML Basic 1.1 for which the
appropriate MIME type is application/xhtml+xml but if you're sending to
a device that doesn't support that (essentially just IE) then you'll
need to do as you are doing and use text/html.
However... this is a warning, not a failure, so you may decide just to
leave things as they are ;-)
Presumably you got this warning from the mobi Ready tool? This uses the
same core code as the W3C mobileOK checker
http://validator.w3.org/mobile/ (although we've added a lot of extra UI
stuff over the last year or so).
HTH
Phil.
Kevin Erickson wrote:
Hello All,
If anyone can help me understand why my mobile page passes all accept the
MIME type.
Page code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.0//EN"
"http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/xhtml-mobile10.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Virginia.gov Mobile - Home</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="max-age=200" />
<meta http-equiv="content-Language" content="en-us" />
<meta name="HandheldFriendly" content="True" />
<meta name="viewport" content="user-scalable=no, width=device-width" />
<meta name="description" content="Virginia.gov Mobile Portal allows you
to access key services from Virginia state government on your mobile device,
such as news, alerts, weather, and contact information." />
<meta name="keywords" content="mobile, Virginia.gov, Virginia
government, PDA, phone, wireless, state" />
<style type="text/css">
@import url(../../css/m_index.css);
</style>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/iphone.css"
media="only screen and (max-device-width: 480px)" />
</head>
<body>
<!-- Start of Mobile -->
<div id="m-header">
<h1><img src="../../images/virginia_dot_gov_logo.jpg" width="151"
height="40" alt="Virginia.gov Mobile Web Services" /></h1>
<p><a accesskey="Z" href="../mobile_expanded/index.html">Switch to
Expanded Mobile Pages</a></p>
</div>
<div class="m-breadcrumbs">Home</div>
<div class="m-body">
<h2>Mobile Virginia.gov Services:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Home</li>
<li><a accesskey="1" href="search.html">Search Virginia.gov</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>People:</h2>
<ul>
<li><a accesskey="2" href="people_citizens.html">Citizens</a></li>
<li><a accesskey="3" href="people_families.html">Families</a></li>
<li><a accesskey="4" href="people_state_employees.html">State
Employees</a></li>
<li><a accesskey="5" href="people_students.html">Students</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Information:</h2>
<ul>
<li><a accesskey="6" href="info_government.html">Government</a></li>
<li><a accesskey="7" href="info_online_services.html">Online
Services</a></li>
<li><a accesskey="8" href="info_business.html">Business</a></li>
<li><a accesskey="9" href="info_employment.html">Employment</a></li>
<li><a accesskey="A" href="info_education.html">Education</a></li>
<li><a accesskey="B" href="info_tourism_travel.html">Tourism and
Travel</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>About Virginia:</h2>
<ul>
<li><a accesskey="C" href="about_va_facts_history.html">Facts and
History</a></li>
<li><a accesskey="D" href="about_va_mapping_virginia.html">Mapping
Virginia</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="m-footer">
<ul>
<li><a href="index.html">mobile.virginia.gov</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.virginia.gov">Virginia.gov Home</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.virginia.gov/cmsportal3/about_virginia.gov_4096/web_policy.
html">Site Policies</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.virginia.gov/cmsportal3/about_virginia.gov_4096/contact_us.
html">Contact Virginia.gov</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>
To test the page I used http://ready.mobi/launch.jsp?locale=en_EN and the
error says:
Incorrect or missing MIME types were detected
The MIME types sent by servers give very important information to browsers
as to how to treat a document. If incorrect MIME types are sent with a
document, it may prevent the browser from correctly interpreting the
document and failing to render a document.
For XHTML-MP, the recommended MIME type is application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml or
application/xhtml+xml. Unlike HTML, XHTML-MP should not be served as
text/html.
Web servers are often set up correctly for common document types such as
HTML and CSS, but often do not have the correct doc types for XHTML-MP.
Please refer to mobiForge <http://mobiforge.com> for instructions on how to
set up your MIME types correctly.
WARN
MIME type was detected as text/html
I would send a link to the page but it is on a secure server.
Thank you very much for any help on this,
Kevin
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