Category: Misc

Mobinomy.com

Mobinomy.com:

Mobinomy.com is the first .com directory for .mobi sites online. While .mobi sites will be used primarily through the mobile, there will exist a need for users to check out relevant .mobi sites on the web. Mobinomy.com attempts to cater to this need.

I understand the needs of having access to mobile formated content and directories is one way to achieve that… not quite sure it is the best way to do it.

More and more website will have this mobile version somewhere (most likely not with content negotiation), the problem is given one page on the web how to tell the browser where to find the mobile device friendly version.

We have been talking about that with Marco and one solution that comes up was to use the link element in html to indicate where to find a mobile version:

<link

rel="alternate"
type="application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml"
title="XHTML-MP version"
href="https://www.smoothplanet.com/mobile"
/>

To be continued…

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Device description Nirvana

Read it on MWBPWG blog

But what if there were a simple way for any Web developer to gain access to basic information about the devices hitting their site. What if they could use this information in a straight forward way in their templates (JSPs, ASPs, PHP, etc…) or other server-side logic for the purpose of more easily providing a mobile-friendly user experience in accordance. And what if this information were available as a utility – as transparent and ubiquitous as DNS or HTTP headers and integrated seamlessly into all the most used Web development frameworks and Web servers.

Sounds like the mobapi.com initiative I am working on my spare time (not much left :-)

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MobileOK

W3C mobileOK Scheme 1.0

mobileOK is directly built upon the Mobile Web Best Practices: to be mobileOK, a page needs to pass a well-defined subset of the Best Practices, as assessed through a refinement of the tests developed as part of the Best Practices.

Via W3C MWBPWG blog

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