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Appologies if this has been posted before... In the future I would like to serve up a mobi compliant site to mobiles and a full blown site to users on a PC. What would I need to do? Also, the languages going to be used are asp and vbscript. Will these scripts if run server side, still produce the results I would like to display on a mobile. Ex. search function. Someone searches for something on my mobile site, that data is passed to my asp search page and then sent back to the mobile? Am I going to run into a one way dead street?... Am I trying to staple jello to a tree?
Though I will continue with my attempt to one day staple jello to a tree, because I'm persistent or an idiot(no feedback please), what's the best source for wurl brush up or refresher reading.
Scandiman wrote:That is the role of WURFL, but it won't help you with the jello
Scandi... where's the positive thinking on my jello problem
Ok... after reading wurfl documentation, i'm not convinced. I was looking for something more along the lines of the following....
Using the http_user_agent detect if the connection is coming from a pc or mobile. Now I think that it would make sense to detect a pc browser because there are less of them compared to mobile phones. If its a pc, redirect them... if it's a mobile do nothing and display a .mobi compliant site.
and I need to do this in an asp/vbscript environment... any help greatly appreciated.
One: If we believe that a domain should be as short as possible, then the counting should go over SLD+TLD= total characters.
Two: Most mobile browsers seem to work fine with W3 HTML 4.01. Why then bother with WAP etc.?
Three: If a given phone does not display html properly, then the Opera Mobile browser is usually a solution.
Four: Internet-capable cell phones are now so cheap that it should not be option to buy one that cannot access html webs.
We try to have .com + .net + .org + .tv extensions for our domains, but we will never invest in .mobi that breaks down the principles of W3 and efficiency if we can do it short, simple and cheap with html.
Maybe, .mobi is just another invention to give registrars, appraisers and resellers some business.
We don't mind about that.
This message is for who may be interested.
Can anyone tell me what I need to do to remove this error that the mobi validator gives on dev.mobi
Your page does not use XHTML Mobile Profile
XHTML-MP should be used as the default markup for your pages. Use of XHTML-MP ensures that your pages will work on the widest variety of mobile devices as well as on desktop browsers. The following graph shows how XHTML-MP is supported by the overwhelming majority of mobile browsers.
PASS near line 0, col 0
Doctype correctly specified as:
-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.0//EN
FAIL near line 0, col 0
Your page does not validate against -//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.0//EN
I see a lot of sites fail on it but I would like to know how to fix it.
see my sig for a starter template (I sold www.muf.mobi so not sure how long the template will be on that address but for now it is still pointed to my servers.)
you can then modify the template 1 step at a time till you get what you want.
Does the same thing..trying to figure out what is going on.
Why would this happen ?. Just taking your code straight and it fails.No matter what I do my site fails on this. How should I be saving your code ?. Something I am doing wrong ?
3GP, 3G2 (3gpp) and MPEG4 (.mp4) are the most typical but it would depend on the phone / pda. Some are able to play mpeg1 / AVI/MP4 / WMV and a lot more. Thankfully even adobe's flash is coming to mobile http://www.beet.tv/2007/02/adobes_flash_vi.html
<?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">
<html>
<BODY>
test
</BODY>
</HTML>
Can any tell me what the problem is ? Driving me nuts.
Why so complicated? Paradigm shift -> http://W2.ms
I have a Cpanel server, so all my domains are accessible both with and without "www". There is no .mobi necesary for that. Domains for mobiles are simple W3 validated html 4.01.
My email is redirected to my vodafone account, so I read it all over the world.
Also, if domainers think that shorter is better, then two-character TLD's are worth much more than three and four character extensions.
There is a paradigm shift taking place: LL.mobi and LL.info may be just as handy to remember and to type in as LL.ms and LLLL.ms. Since there are more dictionary words under LLLL than under LL, mobi will not last long. IMHO the current rush for short CC domains is allready taking place.
I hope for all .mobi investors that I'm wrong. As for me, I stepped in the .ms business. Yes: W2.ms.
Why so complicated? Paradigm shift -> http://W2.ms 
