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Mobile Web Standards

• CSS Mobile Profile 2.0
  W3C Recommendation for CSS Mobile Prfile 2.0
  
• Device Description Repository Simple API
  API for reading identifying mobile devices and reading device capabilities from a device repository
  
• dotMobi
  Company that controls the .mobi TLD.
  
• Mobile Browser Compatibility with JavaScript, AJAX and DOM features
  
• Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0
  W3C’s Best Practices for Mobile Web Development
  
• W3C Mobile Web Application Best Practices
  Best practices for the development and delivery of Web applications on mobile devices.
  
• W3C Mobile Web Initiative
  Making Web access from a mobile device as simple as Web access from a desktop device.
  
• W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0
  
• Wireless CSS Specification (PDF)
  Open Mobile Alliance specification for Wireless CSS
  
• XML 1.0 Standard
  XML-based mobile markup languages strictly adhere to XML syntax rules.

Mobile Web Best Practices

• All about Page Weight
  Considering total cost to download a web page to a mobile device.
  
• Desiging XHTML Content for Nokia Series 60 Platform (PDF)
  Article from Nokia
  
• dotMobile Switch On! Mobile Web Developer Guide
  Guide for developing compliant .mobi mobile web sites.
  
• Mobile Design Wiki @ Little Springs Design
  Mobile Design Patterns
  
• Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0
  W3C’s Best Practices for Mobile Web Development
  
• mobiThinking – Best and Worst of the Mobile Web e-book
  e-book from mobiThinking reviewing the best and worst mobile web sites
  
• Openwave’s Best Practices in XHTML Design
  
• Opera’s Making Small Devices Look Great

Mobile Web Development Experts

• Coding for the Mobile Web
  
• Comparison of XHTML Mobile Profile and XHTML Basic
  Feature comparison of two popular mobile markup languages.
  
• Differences between XHTML MP, XHTML Basic, WML, i-mode, and HDML?
  Wild evolutionary path of mobile markup
  
• Global Authoring Practices for the Mobile Web
  Luca Passani’s GAP document about mobile web design and development
  
• Mob Lob
  Mobile Line of Business
  
• mobiForge
  Mobile developer community owned by dotMobi. Formerly dev.mobi.
  
• Mobile Browser Compatibility with JavaScript, AJAX and DOM features
  
• Mobile Design Wiki @ Little Springs Design
  Mobile Design Patterns
  
• Mobile Web 2.0 eBook by Futuretext
  
• OpenGardens Blog
  Wireless Mobility and Mobile Web 2.0 Blog
  
• Openwave’s Best Practices in XHTML Design
  
• Opera’s Making Small Devices Look Great
  
• Sender 11: Mobile Interaction Design
  
• Small Surfaces
  mobile UI / UX / interaction design
  
• WMLProgramming Yahoo Group
  Busy Yahoo Group and Mailing List discussing WURFL and Mobile Web Development
  
• Yiibu
  mobile design

Mobile Web Development Tools

• BlackBerry Wireless Handheld Browser Content Developer Guide
  
• dotMobi
  Company that controls the .mobi TLD.
  
• Google Gears for Mobile Devices
  Framework for Windows Mobile 5 and 6 and Android phones
  
• Mobile Browser Compatibility with JavaScript, AJAX and DOM features
  
• WMLProgramming Yahoo Group
  Busy Yahoo Group and Mailing List discussing WURFL and Mobile Web Development
  
• WMLScript Reference
  Language reference for WMLScript, companion scripting language for WML
  
• WURFL
  Wireless Universal Resource File
  
• WURFL Pro
  Public Repository of the Wurfl DB
  
• WURFL Test Suite for Mobile Devices
  Test Suite for Web Standards Support on Mobile Devices

Mobile Markup Validators

• Feed Validator for Atom and RSS
  Validates the format of Atom and RSS feeds.
  
• ready.mobi
  Evaluates mobile-readiness using mobile best practices & standards.
  
• W3C Link Checker
  Checks for broken links and anchors in XHTML and HTML documents.
  
• W3C Markup Validation Service for XHTML and HTML
  Validates XHTML, XHTML-MP and HTML markup (and other niche markups standardized by W3C).
  
• W3C MobileOK Checker
  Validates mobile-friendliness of a web document using W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0.

Mobile Markup Specifications

• Comparison of XHTML Markup Flavors
  Comparison of XHTML MP versions and XHTML Basic
  
• Device Description Structures
  An expression language for the structured categorization of devices in content adaptation
  
• WML Language Reference (PDF)
  Openwave’s reference guide for WML
  
• WML Specification (PDF)
  WML Language Specification
  
• WMLScript Reference
  Language reference for WMLScript, companion scripting language for WML
  
• XHTML Basic 1.1
  XHTML Basic 1.1 Standard
  
• XHTML Mobile Profile (PDF)
  Open Mobile Alliance specification for XHTML Mobile Profile
  
• XHTML Mobile Profile and CSS Reference
  OpenWave’s reference guide or XHTML-MP and CSS.
  
• XML 1.0 Standard
  XML-based mobile markup languages strictly adhere to XML syntax rules.

Mobile Industry

• Browsing on Mobile Phones – Nokia Research (PDF)
  
• Differences between XHTML MP, XHTML Basic, WML, i-mode, and HDML?
  Wild evolutionary path of mobile markup
  
• dotMobile Switch On! Mobile Web Developer Guide
  Guide for developing compliant .mobi mobile web sites.
  
• Fierce Mobile Content
  Mobile Content and Mobile Marketing News
  
• Fierce Wireless
  Wireless Industry and Technology News
  
• Geek.com Mobile
  Mobile technology news
  
• mobiThinking
  Help for marketers to understand and exploit new opportunities in the mobile web.
  
• mobiThinking – Best and Worst of the Mobile Web e-book
  e-book from mobiThinking reviewing the best and worst mobile web sites
  
• MocoNews.net
  Mobile content and mobile industry news
  
• RCR Wireless
  Mobile technology, wireless operators, wireless broadband industry news
  
• Sender 11: Mobile Interaction Design
  
• There Goes Dave
  Mobile Web News
  
• WAP Review
  Mobile Web News and Reviews
  
• Wireless Week
  News and Analysis for Wireless
  
• Yahoo News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
  Wireless and Mobile Technology News at Yahoo News

Mobile Developer Communities

• Global Authoring Practices for the Mobile Web
  Luca Passani’s GAP document about mobile web design and development
  
• Info about Opera Mini Request Headers
  
• Mobile Monday Global
  Monthly Monday-evening networking events for the mobile industry
  
• Server-Side Capability Detection for Mobile Devices
  A two-part series from dev.opera.com
  
• Verizon Developer Program (WAP and BREW)
  For WAP and BREW development and partnerships.

Academic Research

• Device Fragmentation of Mobile Applications
  Academic research paper analyzing aspects of fragmentation of mobile applications.

Mobile Web Analytics

• AdMob Metrics
  Popular Devices Surfing the Mobile Web by Region
  
• DeviceAtlas Explorer
  Compare Characteristics of Thousands of Mobile Devices
  
• Opera’s State of the Mobile Web
  Mobile Industry Insights from Opera

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