What is Adaptation?
As we discussed in Chapter 1, adaptation, sometimes called multiserving, means
delivering content as per each user device's capabilities. If the visiting device is an
old phone supporting only WML, you will show a WML page with Wireless Bitmap
(wbmp) images. If it is a newer XHTML MP-compliant device, you will deliver an
XHTML MP version, customized according to the screen size of the device. If the
user is on iMode in Japan, you will show a Compact HTML (cHTML) version that's
more forgiving than XHTML. This way, users get the best experience possible on
their device.
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Do I Need Adaptation?
I am sure most of you are wondering why you would want to create so
many different versions of your mobile site? Isn't following the XHTML MP
standard enough?
On the Web, you could make sure that you followed XHTML and the site will
work in all browsers. The browser-specific quirks are limited and fixes are easy.
However, in the mobile world, you have thousands of devices using hundreds of
different browsers.
You need adaptation precisely for that reason! If you want to serve all users well,
you need to worry about adaptation.
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