Break lengthy/complicated forms into a wizard like step-by-step process.
Setting Up the Development Environment
You can develop XHTML MP websites with any text editor. If you use an HTML
editor with code completion, syntax highlighting, and validation??”it will be perfect
for mobile web development. You may want to have a good CSS editor and an
image manipulation program like Photoshop or Gimp too. Overall, your current web
development tools will work!
If you are going to use server-side processing for your application, you will need
a server-side setup. This could be PHP, .NET, JSP, Ruby, Python, Perl or any other
language. The server-side code should output XHTML MP code instead of HTML.
During testing, a setup on your machine accessible from http://localhost will
work well.
You can use a desktop web browser to test the application??”since it is XHTML. It's
a good practice to test your application first in a browser, then in a mobile device
simulator. A simulator will allow you to run your application as if it is running
from a mobile device. You can test for different screen sizes and also use the keypad
to get a feel of how the user will be using the application.
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