Consumers will soon be able to recognize Web sites specially designed for use by mobile phones by the new .mobi suffix, which will be introduced alongside the popular .com and other top-level domain names. Update: Opinion of a mobile phone web browser engineer on this (& ex-Be kernel engineer).
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http://osnews.mobi 
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Actually, I don't care.
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Just go to osnews.com with your mobile device and we'll auto-recognize it.
Correct. Skilful web publishers already does this.
But have in mind that "mobile browsers" will become more and more competent.
Some of SonyEricssons small phones (not the PDA types) already have a beatliful 320x240 screen (S700 etc), can use SVG and Flash Lite and Nokia is developing new browsers based on Apple WebCore (Safari), with a built in disk drive etc which means we will have full featured web browsers in our small cell phones within a year or two. Ordinary, small sized phones. Not the clumsy PDA-bricks.
Who then would like to be redirected to a crappy WAP 1.0 compliant information .mobi page with 1-bit WBMP graphics?
The focus should be on making your web content XHTML compatible and allow the browser to make the best of it; desktop, server, laptop, embedded, game or cell phone browser.
.mobi is an clueless invention by a bunch of fucking MBA n00bs.
Skilful web publishers know how to provide good information for mobile browsers. The rest of us are already using http://wap.example.com/ or http://www.example.com/wap/
.mobi is an clueless invention by a bunch of fucking MBA n00bs.
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What's up with top-level domains? I can understand .xxx as it's a way to categorize this content that lot's of people don't like to access or don't want their kids accessing it... but .mobi? The tendency wasn't about integration? About mobile devices catching-up with the rest of the web soon? What justify a .mobi top level besides selling ring tones and other really specific content?
Just wondering if all these new top-level domains aren't just about the money they make... =|
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There was a markup language specifically for mobile devices...what happened to that? What about using different style sheets? Why a whole new domain?
When I registered a domain, I had a whole bunch of TLDs to choose from, but .biz sounds really stupid and cheap, etc., and I just picked a .com, because it has credibilty. I just didn't feel that the average clueless user would be comfortable typing in a credit card number to *.biz--it's psychological, yes, but this matters in business.
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I agree.
If you follow XHTML/HTML web standards properly, then developing a mobile page is easy. Your page will already be lightweight from following the standards and avoiding tag soup (no tables for layout!). All that is necessary is to specify a good style sheet for mobile devices. Any mobile device worth its salt will pick up on this style sheet. The mobile style sheet just has to be basic and not include a lot of large images or funky placement on a page.
You would also want to customize any ads for a mobile device. Possibly go with text or a small image. Hide any big ads, too.
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