We are going to use
XHTML-MP for this book.
Getting Mobile
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Bringing Order with Standards and
Guidelines
The only way to bring order to the chaos in mobile development is to establish
standards and guidelines. W3C's Mobile Web Initiative has been instrumental in this.
It has best practices for mobile web development, and also a specification mobileOK
to determine whether your site can work on various mobiles or not.
XHTML Mobile Profile is the standard language for mobile web development.
XHTML-MP is built on top of XHTML Basic. W3C developed XHTML Basic
originally for mobile devices but Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) added support for
WAP CSS (WCSS) and other usability enhancements over XHTML Basic and defined
it as XHTML-MP. Hence XHTML-MP has been adopted as a standard by device
manufacturers. Most phones support it.
There are many opinions about mobile web development today. Because the need is
to show mobile web content in an acceptable manner to a wide variety of handsets
and browsers, the two most common practices are "adaptation" and "lowest
common denominator".
Adaptation, sometimes called multiserving, means delivering content as per the
device's capabilities.
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