Don
>As others have said, if your handheld uses "real" browser that consumes
>html, then you just use CF as normal.
>
>Some things to keep in mind are that IE on a PocketPC is a strange beast and
>that the capabilities recently changed significantly with the release of
>Windows Mobile 2003. Prior to the 2003 OS, the PocketIE was basically just
>the IE 3 codebase. That means HTML3.2 and no CSS support. The new 2003 OS
>updated PocketIE to support CSS, but I haven't seen a full breakdown of how
>well it supports it. I've read that "float" isn't there.
>
>There are also alternate browsers out there for the PocketPC, including
>NetFront which is on the Clie and something called Thunderhawk. And then, of
>course, there's the entire non-Pocket PC market of PDAs and cellphones.
>
>The most common suggestion I've seen for devloping for handheld browsers is
>to create a completely CSS based site, and then either design a minimalist
>CSS display or even trick it to completely hide the CSS display and revert
>to an unformatted site. Not pretty, but more useable than a design you can't
>use at all.
>
>Also, consider Flash RIAs. Maybe it's just some specific features of your
>site that you will make available, and those can be best handled by
>distributing the content in a different way. Flash RIAs can run on PocketPC,
>Palm and even some cellphones and their implementation is more consistent.
>
>Good luck.
>
>-Kevin
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Chunshen (Don) Li" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 9:59 AM
>Subject: Re:CF & pda types of devices
>
>
>> Personally in general I would prefer to use ONE for the other option would
>require much more time/efforts and cost for essentially the same thing. And
>I would think that browser for PDA type of device would simplify data
>display and navigation whenever possible as Thomas mentioned.
>>
>> Don
>>
>> >so how would one detect what kind of device ( other than pc ) was
>accessing
>> >my site? would it just be a matter of creating a link ( flash site here |
>> >xhtml site here | PDA xhtml site here | WML site here )
>> >
>> >
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>> >>On Monday 08 Dec 2003 16:17 pm, Dan Farmer wrote:
>> >> > Interesting, do those devices use HTML or WML ?
>> >>
>> >>My P900 does both - it runs Opera for (X)HTML for instance :-)
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