.mobi WAP 2.0 Development. How to Guide?

[anurag]

How to Develop a Mobi Site.

Hello

As all of us know that .mobi is not the same as other names.

Can some one help me how to develop the site or any software to develop site.


Thanks
Anurag

 

[emanuel]

Tell me please how can be the maximum size of a mobi page ?

 

[emanuel]

... and of course, sorry for my poor english.

 

[cobo]

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http://www.thehyperfactory.com

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[cobo]

More Info

More info:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,51902.shtml

http://www.newmotioninc.com

http://www.momac.net/

 

[nombre]

i have 2 questions:

is wap in any way superior to xhtml ?
can it do things that xhtml can't (is it worth learning)

my html skills are 1.5 on a scale of 10, meaning i can look at page source and understand most of it)

second, do i understand right that any good html software would be acceptable as long as i can change the header and then validate and fix erros for mobi compliance?

i found this site http://www.mobisitegalore.com/#, anybody try it or have any opinions?

thanks all

 

[mykel241]

Tell me please how can be the maximum size of a mobi page ?

I wouldn't create any pages larger the 125-150px wide unless you are using dynamic device detection based on the user_agent and still its not 100% reliable.

And max. data load should be 10k or less. Most mobile plans that say unlimted browsing still limit the max data transfer to 500k a day (50 Pages.)

Michael

 

[allroundguy]

Good old html will do fine Works on nearly all Internet-capable gsm's.

Take a look at 4x4mobile, and You will understand a few things.
Anyway, .mobi is too long and is considered by me to be a deadborn child.
Unless the SLD is very short.
3-char. (.com, .net, etc.) and 2-char. (.tv, .cc, .tc, .be, etc.) shall stay.
Most domain traders and appraisers seem to not know it, but cell phone users do:
Type-in length/time is SLD + dot + TLD and not just SLD.
That's important for phone users, not the extension.
But we can agree or disagree on this.

 

[nombre]

Type-in length/time is SLD + dot + TLD and not just SLD.
That's important for phone users, not the extension.
But we can agree or disagree on this.

as you know the mobi tld has mandated second level domain siting to eliminate the need to type www

with browser defaults which i am more certain are going to be implemented, the user merely types hamburger into the address bar and he goes immediately to hamburger.mobi

 

[thinking1]

as you know the mobi tld has mandated second level domain siting to eliminate the need to type www

with browser defaults which i am more certain are going to be implemented, the user merely types hamburger into the address bar and he goes immediately to hamburger.mobi

I also forgot about the www. thing. Thanks for reminding us

 

[ginggang]

Is anyone using Wurfl at all ? I am trying to find a list of http user agents with screen sizes only. Is there one about anywhere ?

 

[dochlaggie]

Help. I am trying to put up some mobi sites.

I used the mobi templates and have tried to put a site up on dees.mobi.

What am I doing wrong ? My browsers do not pick up the index.xhtml file??

I edited the templates in Dreamweaver.

Thanks in advance.

 

[mykel241]

Is anyone using Wurfl at all ? I am trying to find a list of http user agents with screen sizes only. Is there one about anywhere ?

I am not a big fan of Wurfl.

Michael

 

[scandiman]

I am not a big fan of Wurfl.

Michael

I am very curious why? I have no opinion on it yet and would appreciate your thoughts.

 

[ginggang]

I am not a big fan of Wurfl.

Michael

I'm just getting familiar with it. What are you thoughts then ? Something that can deliver device specific content might be a good thing ?

 

[oxford11]

Butler for PC and mobile

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?

 

[scandiman]

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?

That is the role of WURFL, but it won't help you with the jello

 

[oxford11]

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

 

[ginggang]

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.

http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/ . Don't know if it's the best.

 

[oxford11]

http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/ . Don't know if it's the best.

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.

 

[oxford11]

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.

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