Comments on: WordPress Mobile With Style http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2007/02/22/wordpress-mobile-with-style/ Ripping mobility from the clutches of telecom Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:13:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Rich Gubby http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2007/02/22/wordpress-mobile-with-style/comment-page-1/#comment-579304 Rich Gubby Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:59:14 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/?p=291#comment-579304 Hi, Just wondering if you're still using a mobile plugin? I've tried hitting your blog from my handset and I got the web version! If you fancy giving another one a go, I've written a mobile plugin for wordpress - the homepage is here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wapple-architect/ - it'd be great to hear what you think. And before you ask - it doesn't score that well on ready.mobi. However, in the plugins defence, it fails because of a number of reasons that the ready.mobi just can't handle. For example, the recommendation is not to have images > 200px. But what happens if I know that a handset is 320px wide, or 300px - my plugin resizes images dynamically on the fly so they will always fit. This is a failure on the ready.mobi test and not my plugin. A number of other fails on the ready.mobi test also refer to things that have been dynamically output to a phone. External resources? What about if the phone can handle external resources and cache the result (so therefore faster)? Well they get external resources but phones that don't want external resources don't get them. Again, a big fail on the part of ready.mobi and not me. The key here is that the output my plugin produces is dynamic to every single device - not a one-size-fits-all that will satisfy the ready.mobi test. If anything, my plugin should mean that the test gets updated so that the results that are being produced (which are better), get verified and tested by an up-to-date validator. Like I said - if you want to try out my plugin, feel free to get in touch via http://mobilewebjunkie.com - i'd be only too happy to talk you though it! Hi,

Just wondering if you’re still using a mobile plugin? I’ve tried hitting your blog from my handset and I got the web version!

If you fancy giving another one a go, I’ve written a mobile plugin for wordpress – the homepage is here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wapple-architect/ – it’d be great to hear what you think.

And before you ask – it doesn’t score that well on ready.mobi.

However, in the plugins defence, it fails because of a number of reasons that the ready.mobi just can’t handle. For example, the recommendation is not to have images > 200px. But what happens if I know that a handset is 320px wide, or 300px – my plugin resizes images dynamically on the fly so they will always fit. This is a failure on the ready.mobi test and not my plugin.

A number of other fails on the ready.mobi test also refer to things that have been dynamically output to a phone. External resources? What about if the phone can handle external resources and cache the result (so therefore faster)? Well they get external resources but phones that don’t want external resources don’t get them. Again, a big fail on the part of ready.mobi and not me.

The key here is that the output my plugin produces is dynamic to every single device – not a one-size-fits-all that will satisfy the ready.mobi test.

If anything, my plugin should mean that the test gets updated so that the results that are being produced (which are better), get verified and tested by an up-to-date validator.

Like I said – if you want to try out my plugin, feel free to get in touch via http://mobilewebjunkie.com – i’d be only too happy to talk you though it!

]]> By: Mike Rowehl: This is Mobility » Blog Archive » Mowser WordPress Mobile Plugin Update http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2007/02/22/wordpress-mobile-with-style/comment-page-1/#comment-212360 Mike Rowehl: This is Mobility » Blog Archive » Mowser WordPress Mobile Plugin Update Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:04:48 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/?p=291#comment-212360 [...] site ID without having to go in and poke at the code. I was considering going back and updating the Wordpress Mobile with Style version that I had as well, but there are some other mobile WordPress plugins floating around [...] [...] site ID without having to go in and poke at the code. I was considering going back and updating the WordPress Mobile with Style version that I had as well, but there are some other mobile WordPress plugins floating around [...]

]]> By: Google AdSense for mobile is now here | Blogging Profits http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2007/02/22/wordpress-mobile-with-style/comment-page-1/#comment-176023 Google AdSense for mobile is now here | Blogging Profits Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:05:22 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/?p=291#comment-176023 [...] Tech bloggerMike Rowehl posts his experience about tweaking his WordPress blog for mobile access. [...] [...] Tech bloggerMike Rowehl posts his experience about tweaking his WordPress blog for mobile access. [...]

]]> By: Mike Rowehl: This is Mobility » Blog Archive » Mobile AJAX http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2007/02/22/wordpress-mobile-with-style/comment-page-1/#comment-131418 Mike Rowehl: This is Mobility » Blog Archive » Mobile AJAX Sun, 03 Jun 2007 11:02:56 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/?p=291#comment-131418 [...] all that we’re just at the start though. The very very very start. We can’t even get online validators to agree what is and is not valid mobile markup. And yet we think we can leapfrog to where the web is in terms of using the browser as a base [...] [...] all that we’re just at the start though. The very very very start. We can’t even get online validators to agree what is and is not valid mobile markup. And yet we think we can leapfrog to where the web is in terms of using the browser as a base [...]

]]> By: New .mobi wordpress plugin » Developing.mobi http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2007/02/22/wordpress-mobile-with-style/comment-page-1/#comment-85720 New .mobi wordpress plugin » Developing.mobi Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:32:46 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/?p=291#comment-85720 [...] trying out a new dotmobi wordpress plugin on this blog. The plugin was created by Mike Rowehl of ThisIsMobility.com. Mike is the senior architect at (use PC for links) www.admob.com, a mobile ad network. [...] [...] trying out a new dotmobi wordpress plugin on this blog. The plugin was created by Mike Rowehl of ThisIsMobility.com. Mike is the senior architect at (use PC for links) http://www.admob.com, a mobile ad network. [...]

]]> By: Developing.mobi http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2007/02/22/wordpress-mobile-with-style/comment-page-1/#comment-85678 Developing.mobi Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:09:07 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/?p=291#comment-85678 Ok, thanks again. Ok, thanks again.

]]> By: miker http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2007/02/22/wordpress-mobile-with-style/comment-page-1/#comment-85469 miker Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:01:42 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/?p=291#comment-85469 The plugin normally uses browser detection based on the user agent to figure out if it should display the mobile templates or the normal template. I added the ?mobilenow parameter to force the mobile version without having to change the headers sent by my browser. Spiders and bots should get the same version they did before. The plugin normally uses browser detection based on the user agent to figure out if it should display the mobile templates or the normal template. I added the ?mobilenow parameter to force the mobile version without having to change the headers sent by my browser. Spiders and bots should get the same version they did before.

]]> By: Developing.mobi http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2007/02/22/wordpress-mobile-with-style/comment-page-1/#comment-85412 Developing.mobi Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:14:27 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/?p=291#comment-85412 Hi. What exactly does that ?mobilenow hack do? I noticed that if I use firefox and type the site url with /?mobilenow at the end the browser will show the mobile version of the site. Is that hack needed for the plugin to function as you have it? Can i block that off from search engine spiders? Thanks. Hi. What exactly does that ?mobilenow hack do? I noticed that if I use firefox and type the site url with /?mobilenow at the end the browser will show the mobile version of the site. Is that hack needed for the plugin to function as you have it? Can i block that off from search engine spiders? Thanks.

]]> By: Developing.mobi http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2007/02/22/wordpress-mobile-with-style/comment-page-1/#comment-85253 Developing.mobi Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:16:20 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/?p=291#comment-85253 Awesome plugin! I just started using it at http://www.developing.mobi. I was initially getting a fail on "structure" so I simply changed the first h3 header to an h2 header (on the index.php page) so this way they are in order and now it passes and my site gets a 5.00 score. Thanks a lot!! Awesome plugin! I just started using it at http://www.developing.mobi.

I was initially getting a fail on “structure” so I simply changed the first h3 header to an h2 header (on the index.php page) so this way they are in order and now it passes and my site gets a 5.00 score.

Thanks a lot!!

]]> By: Dominique Hazael-Massieux http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2007/02/22/wordpress-mobile-with-style/comment-page-1/#comment-83814 Dominique Hazael-Massieux Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:30:48 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/?p=291#comment-83814 Indeed, that's what we want to achieve as well. For what it's worth, we have started a mailing list where the mobiReady reports guys, myself (for the BP checker) and other interested parties are discussing developing a common checking library to avoid this kind of discrepancies across implementations (having as a basis the tests defined in mobileOK basic): http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-mobileok-checker/ Indeed, that’s what we want to achieve as well.

For what it’s worth, we have started a mailing list where the mobiReady reports guys, myself (for the BP checker) and other interested parties are discussing developing a common checking library to avoid this kind of discrepancies across implementations (having as a basis the tests defined in mobileOK basic):
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-mobileok-checker/

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