what doctype should I use for a mobile website?

iphone mobile doctype
Jorre picture Jorre · Feb 13, 2010 · Viewed 18.9k times · Source

I'm creating a mobile version of my website from scratch, but I'm unsure what doctype I should use. There does not seem to be a clear standard is that true?

On many mobile sites I see :

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.2//EN" "http://www.openmobilealliance.org/tech/DTD/xhtml-mobile12.dtd">

On others I find :

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.0//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/xhtml-mobile10.dtd">

Can somebody point me in the right direction for decent mobile web design?

I'd like to support most modern handhelds like iphone and HTC devices

I guess a good resolution to use is 320*480 max!

Thanks for helping me out

Answer

Sarfraz picture Sarfraz · Feb 13, 2010

The XHTML MP 1.2 DTD is the current recommendation, finalized in March 2008.

Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHTML_Mobile_Profile

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