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Best practices for mobile web development

Sooner or later, I was going to have to deal with mobile phones. I still don't have a cell phone with a decent browser, now that Sarah found my old one and took hers back. (Hers charged for web access anyway, so there.) But Mike over at Syfy Portal is starting to talk about "WAPping" the site, which I guess means making it available on mobile phones, which apparent does NOT actually mean WAP anymore. Confused yet?

I was. Here's a history of WAP, from the beginning to today. The short story: development is now aimed at XHTML Mobile Profile instead of WAP 1.0 (or WML, as the case used to be).

So of course with all of that change, how do you know how you really should think about doing things? Thankfully, I also found Global Authoring Practices for the Mobile Web, which seems to do a pretty good job of distilling what you should be thinking about -- and doing -- when creating content for mobile devices.

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