Back when MTV still played videos, the Internet was full of web pages designed to work in desktop browsers. Life was good – so were the videos. Fast forward to today. The Web is still full of “best viewed in a desktop browser” web pages, however, you can also find lots of “made for mobile” web pages too.

Mobile optimized web pages can range from boring, bare-bones pages designed for featurephones to visually pleasing, full-featured pages designed for touchscreen smartphones. Web designers have a few techniques they can use to tell a web browser that a web page is optimized for a mobile device. Learn the Mobile Web has a nice post summarizing these DOCTYPEs and meta tags. Web browsers can look for these hints and adjust how the page is displayed, making the site easier to use.

Mobile Firefox is built to display all kinds of pages. In the upcoming release of Beta 5 for Maemo, we added support for a variety for mobile optimization techniques. We support the DOCTYPE approach as well as the “HandheldFriendly” and “viewport” meta tags.

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