dotMobi launches dev.mobi to help developers optimize content for mobile phones
By Dusan Belic on Thursday, July 26th, 2007 at 3:23 AM PST In Announcements, Mobile Web
To push the wider adoption of its domain extension, dotMobi has introduced http://dev.mobi to help developers optimize their content for the mobile audience. Among the things you should read on the new site is the dotMobi Developer Guide, a practical tool for web developers which outlines mobile Internet standards developed by dotMobi in conjunction with W3C. Also important to check out is the site-compliance testing tool called “ready.mobi.” Using it developers can easily perform more than 30 separate tests on any individual .mobi site and determine how well their site will work on a mobile phone. Plus, there are more how-to guides, tools and interactive forums on dev.mobi.
Now go and make us some neat mobile sites. Personally, I don’t care if the site has a “.mobi” domain, or “m” subdomain (”m.domain”) — all I want is the high quality content easily accessible from my mobile phone.
Dusan … While I admit I’m partial to .mobi for obvious reasons, I’d suggest that you should care about a consistent way for end users to find good mobile content.
We’re still in a world where Disney’s mobile URL is mobile.disney.go.com while Bravo TV uses wap.bravotv.com and Best Buy uses bestbuy.com/m. Verizon’s is verizonwireless.com/mobile.
The .mobi domain is designed to bring clarity to this confusion. And with with backers from ranging from Ericsson and Nokia to T-Mobile and Vodafone to Visa, Google and Microsoft, it’s got a group of people behind it who are sure that it’s **the** way forward.