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dot mobi conventions, standards and standards

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:05:21 +0100

dot.mobi web pages have some special conventions, standards and styles (some of them mandatory) that might be different to other web standards and conventions you find on the rest of the web:

for example:

URLS:

DotMobi rules stipulate that there should be a site at the second level domain. This means that mobile users can enter the URL as example.mobi instead of www.example.mobi, thereby saving keystrokes.

I18N:

Identify national variations of dotMobi sites by using the corresponding country code top level domain identifier (ccTLD) as the third level domain identifier.ie uk.mydomain.mobi !

MIME type:

For XHTML-MP, the recommended MIME type is application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml or application/xhtml+xml. Unlike HTML, XHTML-MP should not be served as text/html.

You can develop, test and validate your dot mobi sites for compliance by using:

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Planning a Semantic Web site

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:31:22 +0000

This IBM developer works article discusses what you need to know to make your Web site part of the Semantic Web. It starts with a discussion of the problems the Semantic Web tries to solve and then moves to the technologies involved, such as Resource Description Framework (RDF), Web Ontology Language (OWL), and SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language (SPARQL). You'll see how the Semantic Web is layered on top of the existing Web. It then covers some issues that you want to know about when you plan a new Web site and also gives specific examples of how to use technologies like RDFa and Microformats to enable your existing Web site to become a part of the Semantic Web.

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Web Browser "standards mode" & "quirks mode" and doctypes in html & xhtml

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 11:15:59 +0100

If you search for Web Browser "standards mode", "quirks mode" and doctype, html, xhtml, xml you'll find plenty of information about the "problem" that certain browsers have but little about the "solution" !

I'm still confused but thinking that a solution might just to use PHP instead of HTML and add the following header to my web pages

<? // if (HTTP_USER_AGENT <> a-bad-browser) echo "<?doctype ...stuff...>" ?>

Before I actually code this in PHP do you think it would work ?

Or do you have a better solution ?

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Apache and the XHTML MIME type

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:48:08 +0000

Configure Apache to send the right MIME type for XHTML from IBM DeveloperWorks

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XOXO 1.0: Extensible Open XHTML Outlines

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:26:59 +0000

XOXO http://microformats.org/wiki/xoxo is a simple, open outline format written in standard XHTML and suitable for embedding in (X)HTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML.

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Create your own microformat hCard

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:25:30 +0000

Navigate to http://tantek.com/microformats/hcard-creator.html and enter your details

HCardCreator

Alternatively try http://microformats.org/code/hcard/creator

For some tutorials on hCards see http://www.xfront.com/microformats/

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