but from a purely user centric reason, I want the same content, and the mobile version isn't the same content!
I use a palm with webpro3 which understands media handheld and it really annoys me when a sight shunts me off to a crippled version of a site.
Having said that maybe some people want something else... viewing one of my sites on a nokia 6600 was interesting, but everything works even without the styles... the problems only really arise when the browsers partially understand the standards (or you have big tabled lay out!). We viewed another site at work on a "3" mobile phone using an old opera (without SSR) and it was crap, but it still worked.
At this stage of mobile web development I think the biggest emphasis has to be on the working aspect, presentation will come... but just make sure it works
Adam Carmichael wrote:
A friend of mine pointed out a site called Kitta (http://kitta.net), which is largely a blog [ugh]. It contains the same content being presented as 2 different versions of RSS, XHTML, and also available with a mobile friendly page (which looks largely unfriendly on Gecko) through a menu on the right hand side a fair way down.
(I state the following with great hesitation):
I think presenting the same content with a different page containing a different <link> element for the mobile stylesheet may be the safest option for the moment.
Until mobile device browser manufacturers obey standards. Then we can all get back to using the media attribute as it was intended.
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