This should not happen with Opera browsers (Opera Mini and Opera
Mobile). We specifically ask Google and other search engines not to
give us transcoded results when our users search using their search
engines. If they do then it is a bug and we want to know about it so
we can ask them to correct this behaviour.
For styling the page handheld stylesheets should be used. For
JavaScript issues I don't know of a way to specifically detect if it
is a handheld, and browser sniffing is far from ideal on mobile due
to many reasons.
Tim do you have a specific example of what issues are being caused,
then I can look into them? Also which browsers are you testing on.
Some mobile browsers have very poor JavaScript support. Browsers
such as Opera Mobile have full JavaScript support. Opera mini is
slightly more restricted in that it uses a client server
architecture, so there is no AJAX, but by developing using
progressive enhancement it should work, depending on how complex the
site is you are trying to develop.
On 1 Mar 2007, at 12:30, Tim wrote:
Barney, some mobile phone opimisation search engine versions for
phones DO remove meta tags on the fly.
My meta tag base href were taken out of pages by ask.com the mobile
version http://m.ask.com/
This allowed them to run my site by relative URLs on their server
with fake paypal links en all.
They do remove meta tags Barney in at least some mobile search
engines.
Google mobile disables form, http://m.ask.com/ does not.
Tim
On 01/03/2007, at 9:42 PM, Barney Carroll wrote:
Tim wrote:
Will major search engines for phones take any notice of javascript?
Google
http://www.google.com/xhtml/
Ask
http://m.ask.com/
Tim, why would this be a problem? Google isn't a handheld device,
it's a search engine. It doesn't matter what /it/ thinks.
And if you're afraid it messes with pages it links to, that isn't
the case.
Regards,
Barney
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