Thursday, September 28, 2006 10:50:30 AM
analysis, browser, browsers, convergence
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mTLD has published an emulator where you can Test your web site to see if it’s ready for mobile customers.
They continue on their site saying If you're not happy with what you see, - if you see anything at all – it's time to join the dotMobi Community by getting your .mobi domain name and optimizing your site for the mobile Internet.
The problem is that what their showing is not even close to what a user actual would see when visiting a web site with their phone. Especially is this the case when the site use media types to adapt the layout to the different screen resolutions. The screenshot on the right show this community site rendered in the emulator, while the one to the left show what it looks like in Opera 8.5 which is the web browser shipping on the Nokia N70.
Wednesday, September 27, 2006 3:40:46 PM
analysis, browser, browsers, convergence
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I have been writing a lot about dotmobi lately,
asking for people to wake up and smell the coffee.
David Meyer from ZDNet seems to agree.It's not going to make it any easier to access the content — in fact it will add a couple of keystrokes to what you're doing
- Windsor Holden, senior analyst with telecommunications consultancy Analysys
You don't need a separate domain to do that...Another mobile industry attempt to control something that's uncontrollable — another quasi-walled garden
- James Enck, analyst with Daiwa Securities
I'm sure more will follow.
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 3:30:46 PM
analysis, browser, browsers, convergence
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dotmobi is the first top level domain to enforce a technology ever. The technology is XHTML Mobile Profile, which is a part of the OMA WAP 2.0 specification.
I just wonder how successful dotcom or dotnet would have been if they only approved web sites that were written in HTML 3.2.
(Anne Van Kesteren actually compared the two in December 2004)
Monday, September 25, 2006 12:18:43 PM
browser, dotmobi, mobile
Link to articleA lot of the new domain names just compound the problem of trademark infringement and fraud.
- Sarah Deutsch, associate general counsel for Verizon.
...A senior lawyer at Verizon Communications, the second-largest US telecommunications group, said there was no 'particular business need' for 'dotmobi' and the company had only registered verizon.mobi to prevent others taking it... web developers said there was no technical benefit to using 'dotmobi', as websites could be designed to adapt to mobile phone screens...
Looks like the lawyers are awake. Wonder when the technologist will join in.
My Opera
