Tuesday, December 22, 2009
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Resources: Beginning Smartphone Web Development
Mobile Web Standards
- CSS Mobile Profile 2.0
W3C Recommendation for CSS Mobile Prfile 2.0 - Device Description Repository Simple API
API for reading identifying mobile devices and reading device capabilities from a device repository - dotMobi
Company that controls the .mobi TLD. - Mobile Browser Compatibility with JavaScript, AJAX and DOM features
- Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0
W3C’s Best Practices for Mobile Web Development - W3C Mobile Web Application Best Practices
Best practices for the development and delivery of Web applications on mobile devices. - W3C Mobile Web Initiative
Making Web access from a mobile device as simple as Web access from a desktop device. - W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0
- Wireless CSS Specification (PDF)
Open Mobile Alliance specification for Wireless CSS - XML 1.0 Standard
XML-based mobile markup languages strictly adhere to XML syntax rules.
Mobile Web Best Practices
- All about Page Weight
Considering total cost to download a web page to a mobile device. - Desiging XHTML Content for Nokia Series 60 Platform (PDF)
Article from Nokia - dotMobile Switch On! Mobile Web Developer Guide
Guide for developing compliant .mobi mobile web sites. - Mobile Design Wiki @ Little Springs Design
Mobile Design Patterns - Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0
W3C’s Best Practices for Mobile Web Development - mobiThinking – Best and Worst of the Mobile Web e-book
e-book from mobiThinking reviewing the best and worst mobile web sites - Openwave’s Best Practices in XHTML Design
- Opera’s Making Small Devices Look Great
Mobile Web Development Experts
- Coding for the Mobile Web
- Comparison of XHTML Mobile Profile and XHTML Basic
Feature comparison of two popular mobile markup languages. - Differences between XHTML MP, XHTML Basic, WML, i-mode, and HDML?
Wild evolutionary path of mobile markup - Global Authoring Practices for the Mobile Web
Luca Passani’s GAP document about mobile web design and development - Mob Lob
Mobile Line of Business - mobiForge
Mobile developer community owned by dotMobi. Formerly dev.mobi. - Mobile Browser Compatibility with JavaScript, AJAX and DOM features
- Mobile Design Wiki @ Little Springs Design
Mobile Design Patterns - Mobile Web 2.0 eBook by Futuretext
- OpenGardens Blog
Wireless Mobility and Mobile Web 2.0 Blog - Openwave’s Best Practices in XHTML Design
- Opera’s Making Small Devices Look Great
- Sender 11: Mobile Interaction Design
- Small Surfaces
mobile UI / UX / interaction design - WMLProgramming Yahoo Group
Busy Yahoo Group and Mailing List discussing WURFL and Mobile Web Development - Yiibu
mobile design
Mobile Web Development Tools
- BlackBerry Wireless Handheld Browser Content Developer Guide
- dotMobi
Company that controls the .mobi TLD. - Google Gears for Mobile Devices
Framework for Windows Mobile 5 and 6 and Android phones - Mobile Browser Compatibility with JavaScript, AJAX and DOM features
- WMLProgramming Yahoo Group
Busy Yahoo Group and Mailing List discussing WURFL and Mobile Web Development - WMLScript Reference
Language reference for WMLScript, companion scripting language for WML - WURFL
Wireless Universal Resource File - WURFL Pro
Public Repository of the Wurfl DB - WURFL Test Suite for Mobile Devices
Test Suite for Web Standards Support on Mobile Devices
Mobile Markup Validators
- Feed Validator for Atom and RSS
Validates the format of Atom and RSS feeds. - ready.mobi
Evaluates mobile-readiness using mobile best practices & standards. - W3C Link Checker
Checks for broken links and anchors in XHTML and HTML documents. - W3C Markup Validation Service for XHTML and HTML
Validates XHTML, XHTML-MP and HTML markup (and other niche markups standardized by W3C). - W3C MobileOK Checker
Validates mobile-friendliness of a web document using W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0.
Mobile Markup Specifications
- Comparison of XHTML Markup Flavors
Comparison of XHTML MP versions and XHTML Basic - Device Description Structures
An expression language for the structured categorization of devices in content adaptation - WML Language Reference (PDF)
Openwave’s reference guide for WML - WML Specification (PDF)
WML Language Specification - WMLScript Reference
Language reference for WMLScript, companion scripting language for WML - XHTML Basic 1.1
XHTML Basic 1.1 Standard - XHTML Mobile Profile (PDF)
Open Mobile Alliance specification for XHTML Mobile Profile - XHTML Mobile Profile and CSS Reference
OpenWave’s reference guide or XHTML-MP and CSS. - XML 1.0 Standard
XML-based mobile markup languages strictly adhere to XML syntax rules.
Mobile Industry
- Browsing on Mobile Phones – Nokia Research (PDF)
- Differences between XHTML MP, XHTML Basic, WML, i-mode, and HDML?
Wild evolutionary path of mobile markup - dotMobile Switch On! Mobile Web Developer Guide
Guide for developing compliant .mobi mobile web sites. - Fierce Mobile Content
Mobile Content and Mobile Marketing News - Fierce Wireless
Wireless Industry and Technology News - Geek.com Mobile
Mobile technology news - mobiThinking
Help for marketers to understand and exploit new opportunities in the mobile web. - mobiThinking – Best and Worst of the Mobile Web e-book
e-book from mobiThinking reviewing the best and worst mobile web sites - MocoNews.net
Mobile content and mobile industry news - RCR Wireless
Mobile technology, wireless operators, wireless broadband industry news - Sender 11: Mobile Interaction Design
- There Goes Dave
Mobile Web News - WAP Review
Mobile Web News and Reviews - Wireless Week
News and Analysis for Wireless - Yahoo News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
Wireless and Mobile Technology News at Yahoo News
Mobile Developer Communities
- Global Authoring Practices for the Mobile Web
Luca Passani’s GAP document about mobile web design and development - Info about Opera Mini Request Headers
- Mobile Monday Global
Monthly Monday-evening networking events for the mobile industry - Server-Side Capability Detection for Mobile Devices
A two-part series from dev.opera.com - Verizon Developer Program (WAP and BREW)
For WAP and BREW development and partnerships.
Academic Research
- Device Fragmentation of Mobile Applications
Academic research paper analyzing aspects of fragmentation of mobile applications.
Mobile Web Analytics
- AdMob Metrics
Popular Devices Surfing the Mobile Web by Region - DeviceAtlas Explorer
Compare Characteristics of Thousands of Mobile Devices - Opera’s State of the Mobile Web
Mobile Industry Insights from Opera
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