The mobile device phenomenon
In March 2007 a market research report found that 64% of U.S. mobile devices are internet enabled, and that will be a lot higher now.
Also mobile devices outnumber desktop and laptop computers approximately 20 to 1 worldwide.
(Report by firm media-screen.com)
So businesses have got to be ready for mobile web browsing to increase dramatically.
The situation now:
A high percentage of websites would, at best be a mobile surfers nightmare, and at worst the mobile surfer would not even be able to get on to the website – at all!
How about checking out the top UK ‘professional mobile website designers’ from a Google search?
Boundary Products Web Design is now using Html5 the latest coding and the following checker shows an error as: 'document uses a doctype that is not recognized as an XHTML doctype'. But mobile phones have EXCELLENT RESULTS with Html5, also desktop Browsers work very well with it provided the code uses the recognized coding elements.
On the W3C MobileOK Checker, Boundary Products Web Design gets about 90% which is well into the last ‘safe’ green segment on the chart.
The W3C MobileOK Checker won’t guarantee that the page you are testing will display well on a mobile device, but if the page has a low score you can be reasonably sure that the page is badly designed and built, and will not display correctly – if at all!
You can check any website for free on the Mobile friendly checker page.
