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Mobile Web Development Resources

Best Practices

• W3C Mobile Web Initiative

  http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

• W3C Mobile Web Application Best Practices

  http://www.w3.org/TR/mwabp/

• W3C CSS Mobile Profile 2.0

  http://www.w3.org/TR/css-mobile/

• W3C Device Description Repository Simple API

  http://www.w3.org/TR/DDR-Simple-API/

• Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0

  http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-mobile-bp-20080729/

• W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0

  http://www.w3.org/TR/mobileOK-basic10-tests/

• Standards for Web Applications on Mobile: February 2011 Current State and Roadmap

  http://www.w3.org/2011/02/mobile-web-app-state.html

• Google Webmaster Central: Developing Mobile Sites

  http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=72462&from=40348&rd=1

Validation

• W3C mobileOK Checker

  http://validator.w3.org/mobile/

• WurML Mobile Testing Worm

  http://wurml.shadowplay.net/

• MobiReady

  http://ready.mobi/launch.jsp?locale=en_EN

Emulators

• doMobi

  http://emulator.mtld.mobi/emulator.php

• Firefox User Agent Switcher

  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-switcher/

• wmlbrowser

  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wmlbrowser/

• XHTML Mobile Profile

  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/xhtml-mobile-profile/

• WURFL Wireless Universal Resource File

  http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/

Sac State Library

• Mobile Design and Development

  http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/book/programming/mobile/9780596806231/firstchapter