On 13 Sep 2006, at 20:57, Kenny Graham wrote:
FWIW, my experience is that you won't get
very far using media types for applying
screen versus handheld styles anyway.
Internet Explorer Mobile, for one,
My Samsung A900's ugly default browser uses handheld stylesheets
pretty much flawlessly, seems to just love the xhtml mime type... it
just plain respects standards.
Unfortunately, that's not the case with the majority of mobile
browsers. There's a decent article about the hoops
Yahoo!'s people went through creating a mobile-accessible site for
the FIFA World Cup:
<http://www.designinteract.com/features/yahoofifa/>
They found it necessary to test on ten different devices, and
implement two different sets of markup, just to be sure they were
allowing the maximum number of devices access to the site.
Considering the quality of IE's -main-
browser, I can only imagine how horrible some side-project based off
of it is.
In fact, it's better than IE 6 - I think that, just as IE Mac used to
be, it's a different team with a different codebase. The version I
have on my PDA supports transparency in PNGs, for example, and it has
support for attribute selectors. On the other hand, it has no idea
what the button element is... There's a table showing its CSS support at
<http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/articles/213771.aspx>
Luckilly, as far as I know, it doesn't have extremely high
market share in that segment.
Actually, there's a large number of handheld devices (phones and
PDAs) running Windows Mobile; I felt the need to buy such a device
purely for testing.
I have an aversion to using the link
element for some reason.
I have an aversion to doing most of the things one has to do to get a
working cross-platform implementation for handhelds :-)
If it's for your own site then you might as well just do what works
for you, but if it's a commercial site, or something you're doing for
a client, I'm afraid you're in for a world of pain :-(
Good luck,
Nick.
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Nick Fitzsimons
http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/
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