title: Specifics of website development for Japanese mobile phones; testing?
body: <p>Is there any good advise on developing websites specifically for Japanese mobile phones? As I see it so far, the site basically has to be bare-bone HTML, mostly <code>&lt;p&gt;</code>s and <code>&lt;br&gt;</code>s and tiny, compressed postage stamp graphics if need be. There are also some UTF-8 codes for <a href="http://creation.mb.softbank.jp/web/web_pic_01.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">pre-defined graphics</a>. Are there any other conventions one should be aware of?</p>
  
  <p>Also, what are good ways to test mobile sites? I use Opera's "mobile view" simulator, but that only goes so far. There are some <a href="http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/service/imode/make/content/html/tool2/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">simulators</a> provided by the mobile phone corps, but they're either horribly outdated, won't install or produce <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake" rel="nofollow noreferrer">mojibake</a> on my English-language test system (and I don't have the nerve to install another OS right now). An actual phone doesn't work during development as it's not on the intranet.</p>