User214117797 posted
After lots of reading online in relation to mobile web sites, it seems like the best way to develop multi device compatible sites is to you XHTML which in itself is not hard as it is simply HTML but much stricter.
By using XHTML, I gain the ability to use basic HTML like tables and CSS styles, not to mention I can also take advantage of the mobile controls for the adaptive rendering to XHTML. So far am I right?
If the above is possible, how do I go using XHTML in my mobile web forms. I implemented all the relevant XHTML tags but the web form still gets rendered either in HTML or WML based on my source browser.
How can I set up the web application so that all requests will be processed and rendered as XHTML?
Do I have to setup a new device filter so that is always has a rendertype of XHTML?
Do i need to make changes to the web.config?
Below is the markup up my mobile web form using valid XHTML, however when rendered by IE6, all the table tags are stripped so I dont get the table structure
1 <%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Default4.aspx.cs" Inherits="Default4" %>
2 <%@ Register TagPrefix="mobile" Namespace="System.Web.UI.MobileControls" Assembly="System.Web.Mobile" %>
3
4 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.0//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/xhtml-mobile10.dtd">
5 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
6 <head>
7 <title>Table in XHTML MP</title>
8 </head>
9 <body>
10 <mobile:Form id="Form1" runat="server">
11 <table>
12 <tr>
13 <td>Cell A</td>
14 <td>Cell B</td>
15 <td>Cell C</td>
16 </tr>
17 <tr>
18 <td>Cell D</td>
19 <td>Cell E</td>
20 <td rowspan="2">Cell F</td>
21 </tr>
22 <tr>
23 <td colspan="2">Cell G</td>
24 </tr>
25 </table>
26 </mobile:Form>
27 </body>
28 </html>
Thanks,
Jim
