The responder misunderstood my intention as wanting to create a mobile site for iPhones only. That is not the case. I was creating a separate mobile site from the ground up, and not simply copying the site (instead of simply using a different stylesheet) in order to create a site that used as little bandwidth as possible, especially considering that data plans are generally more limited.
I apologize if I sounded defensive, but I came here only to ask how to do one thing, and a kind person answered me in a civil manner. Thread closed. Then a month later, someone here resurrected this post and decided to pick apart my post and mock me for what I wanted to create. He did all of this without offering a suggestion of what he would do. And everyone here just stood by and let it happen. Obviously, just because a major company does something one way doesn't automatically make it the best way. But it doesn't make it wrong either. There are many ways to do things, and all I was pointing out was that what I was doing is actually fairly common, and that it's in our best interest to respect each other for trying different ways of tackling the mobile platform. I was also wondering (not sarcastically, of course) if you had any suggestions on how you might do things differently, seeing as some of the posters here seem adamantly against this technique. On Jan 7, 9:09 am, Roger <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 6, 9:03 pm, birdofprey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Think about what you are saying. > > > The answer is above. Someone was kind of enough to show how it was > > done. > > Show me how what was done? Copying a site from one folder to another > and modifying it to suit a specific agent? > > > > > Many sites write and maintain separate versions for "these devices", > > Many Web developers are incompetent. > > > these devices called smartphones - iPhones, Blackberries, and various > > Thanks professor. > > > others. This includes everyone from Google to Yahoo! to Flickr to > > Amazon to pretty much a bulk of most major companies today. > > Google and Amazon are clearly incompetent. I don't use Flickr, but I > would venture they are too. Yahoo! us a bit better, but if they are > sniffing browsers and redirecting to alternate sites, they are > screwing up too. > > > > > Before you lace another comment with this kind of an attitude, please > > Again with the attitude. What is wrong with you people? > > > get in the loop of the mobile age, and start over. > > You really haven't got a clue. > > [snip] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
