Problems
with the
mobile web
Nick Cowie
nickcowie.com
30 June 2007
released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 licence

Screen size
240x240
pixels

Orientation
320x240px

Minimo
Wapaka NetFront Novarra nWeb
Bluelark
Nokia S60 Openwave
Obigo
Doris
Opera Mobile Picsel Palm Blazer SAS
Pocket Internet Explorer
Safari Palm™ Web Browser Pro PlayStation Portable Pixo
Opera Mini NicheView
Nokia Series 40 MobileLeap
RocketBrowser JOCA
Skweezer Thunderhawk Wapaka
PocketWeb
Webby Mobile WebViewer jB5 Novarra nWeb

Same browser different view

It feels like
999
again

So should you
build separate
sites for mobile
browsers?

A few links
W3C Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0
http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/
XHTML-MP specifications
http://www.openmobilealliance.org/release_program/docs/browsing/v2_2-20061020-a/oma-wap-xhtmlmp-v1_1-20061020-a.pdf
Wireless CSS specifications
http://www.openmobilealliance.org/release_program/docs/browsing/v2_2-20061020-a/oma-wap-wcss-v1_1-20061020-a.pdf
DotMobi Mobile Web Developer's Guide
http://dotmobi.typepad.com/dotmobi/2007/03/dotmobi_mobile_.html
Blue Flavor
http://www.blueflavor.com/
Andy Moore - php to detect mobile phones
http://www.andymoore.info/php-to-detect-mobile-phones/
Dev Mobi Community
http://www.dev.mobi/