Re: writing HTML for tablets

2008-04-12 Thread Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente
Just some links... To get browser capabilities, you can use WURFL[1], and there are some API very interesting. If Nokia tablets aren't included in the database, you can add them easily. Some recommendations about how to write web pages for mobile devices can be found in W3C Mobile Initiative[2].

Re: writing HTML for tablets

2008-04-12 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:56:52AM +0100, Peter Flynn wrote: > Carlos Pinto wrote: > > Well, i know that most of you hate Flash, but flash does fit to the > > proper page, even it scales > > the vector-fonts as long as they are embedded. > > But as mentioned: most of the *nix users hate Flash, so

Re: writing HTML for tablets

2008-04-12 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 08:52:33PM +0200, Olivier Ricou wrote: > die 12/04/08, ad 20h01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit : > > The big problem is that a lot os servers ignore the user's settings, so > > they specify the sizes of text boxes explicitly in pixels based on their > > speci

Re: writing HTML for tablets

2008-04-12 Thread Peter Flynn
Carlos Pinto wrote: > Well, i know that most of you hate Flash, but flash does fit to the > proper page, even it scales > the vector-fonts as long as they are embedded. > But as mentioned: most of the *nix users hate Flash, so i assume that > this example is not allowed to mention *grin* The pro

Re: writing HTML for tablets

2008-04-12 Thread Mark
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Olivier Ricou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Think that 300dpi > printers have been replaced by 600dpi ones when most screen are > less than 100dpi. You don't understand how printers work. The *dot pitch*, (that is, the distance from the edge of one dot to the *s

Re: writing HTML for tablets

2008-04-12 Thread Andrew Daviel
On Sat, 12 Apr 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 07:55:15PM +0200, Olivier Ricou wrote: >> >> You have the feeling your eyes cannot see a higher resolution but >> you are wrong (*). For usual text I agree low resolution is ok however >> if you read a PDF or any antialiasing

Re: writing HTML for tablets

2008-04-12 Thread Carlos Pinto
Well, i know that most of you hate Flash, but flash does fit to the proper page, even it scales the vector-fonts as long as they are embedded. But as mentioned: most of the *nix users hate Flash, so i assume that this example is not allowed to mention *grin* Big greetings, Carlos http://www.mojoca

Re: writing HTML for tablets

2008-04-12 Thread Olivier Ricou
die 12/04/08, ad 20h01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit : > The big problem is that a lot os servers ignore the user's settings, so > they specify the sizes of text boxes explicitly in pixels based on their > specified font sizes, regardless of the browser's minimum font size. Strang

Re: writing HTML for tablets

2008-04-12 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 07:55:15PM +0200, Olivier Ricou wrote: > die 12/04/08, ad 19h20, Andrew Daviel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit : > > The Nokia tablets are 800x480, and I can't see pocket PC displays getting > > much bigger than 1000x500. If they were physically larger, they would not > > fit in

Re: writing HTML for tablets

2008-04-12 Thread Olivier Ricou
die 12/04/08, ad 19h20, Andrew Daviel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit : > The Nokia tablets are 800x480, and I can't see pocket PC displays getting > much bigger than 1000x500. If they were physically larger, they would not > fit in a pocket, and if the pixels were smaller you would need reading > gla

Re: Memo mapper cannot connect to GPSD server?

2008-04-12 Thread Bob Crawford
Marius Gedminas wrote: Maps and Maemo Mapper seem to get along fine running simultaneously Right, because Maps tells the OS to start gpsd and then Maemo Mapper can connect to it. Newer versions of Maemomapper DO start up the gpsd... More info is available at internettable

writing HTML for tablets

2008-04-12 Thread Andrew Daviel
I write the occasional web page, and I was thinking about screen size as it relates to web content. In the past I had not given it much consideration, except that when I made some pages for a cellphone (128x128 pixels, $0.02/kb data charges) I made them much smaller with no or tiny graphics.