Opera-based devices seem to support well but some others do not. Patrick has
done a lot of research and could tell us real stats:
http://www.htmldog.com/ptg/archives/000055.php

Worth reading:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/pocket/
http://my.opera.com/community/dev/device/css-media/

While interesting, be careful of emulators like this:
http://relay5.yospace.com/ipaqbrowser/ipaqbrowser.html

If concerned about lack of support for handheld media type, and you felt it
vital for a particular site, you could always use a style switcher or some
other method to allow users to manually choose a tiny screen option.

2c
Russ


> On 9/24/04 2:39 AM "russ - maxdesign" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent this out:
> 
>> However, you should keep in mind hand-held devices which are on the increase
>> in a major way. They have tiny screens. This means we really have to think
>> outside the standards screen sizes. A good mind-shift article is here:
>> http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dao/
>> 
>> The aim of accessibility is to make content, accessible to the widest range
>> of users and devices possible.
> 
> I'm sure you're correct in that assessment.
> 
> I interviewed for a job this week and my "web dev" skills (which I'm not
> that full of) were relevant but not a deal breaker.
> 
> Anyway, one of the interview panel folks pulled up my primo site on their
> Blackberry (or whatever) PDA and said "Cool! Great job for PDAs!" and really
> I had done nothing but design with fluid tables and formatted everything I
> could with CSS, but I had done zero layout stuff with CSS - it was all
> tables.
> 
> So what's the real deal on formatting for all these "devices"? I should
> check the ALA article I'm sure and I will but I'm looking for the real
> truth.
> 
> Rick Faaberg
> 
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