dot mobi conventions, standards and standards

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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