Rants of a mobile dev » wml http://blog.smartcube.co.za Mobile developer ranting about mobile stuff Sun, 02 May 2010 20:58:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Nokia’s Music Store Fail http://blog.smartcube.co.za/2009/04/23/nokias-music-store-fail/ http://blog.smartcube.co.za/2009/04/23/nokias-music-store-fail/#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:05:56 +0000 drubin http://blog.smartcube.co.za/?p=86 I heard last night on the Tv that Nokia is going to be releasing their Music store at first I thought maybe this would be great for South Africa since the majority of our population do not have smart phones such as the iphone….

They claim to launch on the 24th but if their current site is any thing to go on I as well as many others will be highly disappointed.

Major issues.
1) Going to the site on a mobile (Nokia 6300) gives a content type of wml (text/vnd.wap.wml) on a phone that clearly supports xhtml mobile profile.
2) Their site isn’t even in wml it is xhtml served with a content type of xml FAIL! on most of the phones
3) They site is missing the correct xml decleration.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> This is normally an issue with IE6 since it doesn’t understand xml…. but wait I thought this was a mobile site?
4) Mobile profile <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.0//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/xhtml-mobile10.dtd">
should be used instead of <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
5) Use of javascript on a phone that clearly doesn’t support it, way to go to save data use age. <script type="text/javascript" src="js/getElementsByClassName.js"></script>
6) IE specific css <!--[if lt IE 7]><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/ie6.css" /><![endif]--> Is this a website NO!

Oddly enough the UK version is more mobile compliant then the international one with minor errors like the xml header (point 1 and 2) other wise pretty nice site.

I am pretty sure there are more basic errors and maybe I will bother to check it out again and update this post but for now I have other important stuff to get done.

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