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Novarra - Upgrades, does it work better now?

Written by olafdunn on Feb 14th, 2008 | Filed under: Mobile Web

If transcoding is to become the “norm” which i sincerely hope not, then i hope that new transocoding intelligence will be included.
- Check for microformats to see if the developer has specified their menu structure, the content, and any other standard page feature, instead of guess work.
- If RSS or other feed is available, use this to generate the page instead of transcoding
- Check all the variants on mobile sites to see if they reply with appropriate mobile content (m. .mobi wap. mobile. /mobile etc..)
- Give the user the option if they wish to have a transcoded site (not “optimized” as currently pushed to users) or for the mobile site (if found)
- Pass through of “User-Agent” to allow for the website to decide if it wants to provide mobile content or not. Do not use a non-standard user-agent which causes developers headaches to apply new rules.

Lets see how it goes…


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