Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Write clean HTML

The best ways to accommodate the limitations of handheld browsers are to mark up documents semantically and logically and to avoid sinking text in graphics (which you should be avoiding anyway). The goal is to create a page that works and makes sense even with all the graphics and tables stripped away.

One example of how logical semantic markup can serve all audiences is the practice of marking up navigation options as an unordered list in the document source. Cascading Style Sheets can be used to present the list as a horizontal navigation bar (with graphics, too, if you choose) for graphical browsers, but microbrowsers and other alternative browsing devices will see a bulleted list of links. This technique is demonstrated in Chapter 24.