Rachel Radford wrote:
Is there a web site or an accurate way of 'testing' websites on PDA's
and cell phones if you don't have access to them?
Not really. Too many "non-standards" around...
There is a real standard: 'media handheld', but support for it is
sketchy to non-existent for most software-packages one can get to small
devices. There's a "browser-war" going on on small devices, and most
browsers are pretty incomplete to say the least.
Some info:
<http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=HandheldStylesheets>
...more articles can be found on those 'css-d wiki' pages.
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Opera's mobile browser is following the handheld-standard and is
spreading fast in parts of the world, so the closest you can get at the
moment is to use Opera's 7.54/8.0 browsers on big screens, and switch on
the 'Small Screen Rendering' they offer. Difference being mostly that
the real PDA-browsers don't have the large resources of fonts that you
may find in a "big" browser.
Opera's small screen browsers are capable of tuning web pages that don't
have 'handheld' styles into something quite useful too, while having
good support for the real 'handheld' when that exist.
Designing for small screens: <http://www.alistapart.com/articles/pocket/>
...is the best article on the subject at the moment.
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Most browsers for small devices are ignoring 'media handheld'
altogether, and usually makes a mess out of 'media screen' styles --
each their own way. If we ever want some real standard support here,
then designing for 'handheld' and testing in Opera is the best we can do.
I'm basing my designing for small devices on 'handheld', and have chosen
to ignore the other "variables" out here completely:
<http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_1_05.html>
...will work in Opera. Still working on all the many details...
regards
Georg
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http://www.gunlaug.no
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