Kyle aka Pukupi did a new design for his site. He also offers an interestig article: Pukupi's top 10 hints for building interoperable mobile web sites.

Kyle writes to avoid emoji's as their is no standard set yet. However silly they might be, I believe that emoji's will become quite important in the future.
Just think about the use of emoji's in Jaiku, the better Twitter. And more seriously, see Junichi Azuma's "From Emoticon to Universal Symbolic Signs: Can Written Language Survive in Cyberspace?"


Also of interest:
The Mobile Lab

From Luca Passani's Global Authoring Practices for the Mobile Web

Least Common Denominator (LCD) is the coding style that authors need to resort to when adaptation is not a possibility for any reason. In those cases, any HTTP client which requests the document will receive the same HTTP headers, the same mark-up and the same pictures in terms of size and format.

While LCD is the most widely adopted approach for the creation of internet web sites, device fragmentation prevents LCD from being equally effective on the mobile web. Choosing a default experience that does not take device features into consideration is bound to deliver a poor user experience on most devices.

We couldn't agree more.

PS: If you just want to have a nice mobile version without getting deep into mobile rendering, you definitely should try out: feed2mobile. It only needs an RSS-feed to get your own mobile version and a personal QR Code too.

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SITUATION
So now you have a KAYWA weblog and you use it more and more with your mobile. Sometimes, you also write down an address with a telephone number.

PROBLEM
When you access your weblog via mobile phone or PDA you would like to call directly the phone number in your post without writing it down first and then call in a second step.

SOLUTION
Use a Tel.-Link which looks like this:
<a href="wtai://wp/mc;+41438182940">043 818 29 40</a>
respectively like 043 818 29 40

HOW TO DO IT

• You have the swiss phone number 043 818 29 40, which is in international writing style: +41438182940
• Go to your web admin
• Click on link (as you would for a normal link).
• Write under URL wtai://wp/mc;+41438182940
• Write under Link text 043 818 29 40

Now you can click on the phone number on your mobile weblog page and make a direct call.

FILE UNDER CONTACTS

• Write under URL wtai://wp/ap; +41438182940;KAYWA AG
• Write under Link text 043 818 29 40

Result: Put in contacts
You will be asked if you want to insert it under contacts.


See also:
Wireless Telephony Applications Interface
WAP WTAI, WAP-170-WTAI, Version 07-Jul-2000 (copy via MIT)

Developing Wireless Content using XHTML Mobile (April 2004)

This article will show you how to create XHTML Mobile Profile documents that render on multiple devices. We will also demonstrate how set up an XML-based multiserving framework. Finally, we will show you can transform your XHTML to WML without having to make any changes to your XHTML code.

A very good reference.

http://www.yospace.com/spedemo.html
The Yospace homepage provides a variety of online WAP emulators for different mobile devices. The web service is for free.

There are testpages from T-Mobile, AOL, but it's apparently not directly possible to test your own WAP-sites. It seems one has to set up a test account to do this.

Does anybody know a site, where one can test any URL with online WAP emulators?

More WAP Emulators

If one googles, you don't find much about WAP2 which uses XHMTL. Some useful addresses:
WAP Forum Releases
Documentation from Ericsson (PDF)
An Overview of Mobile Versions of XHTML
XHTML Mobile Profile
The Mobile Web Top 10
XHTML Tutorial