phpQuestioner Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 I am trying to find out how many designer are accommodating portable device users, too enable them to view website design/layouts on their PDA, Cell Phones, IPhone and etc. - Please Vote - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToonMariner Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 I love the 'one site fits all' approach... with some good semantic html, media specific style sheets and some agent detection (for serving different sized images) you can serve mobiles with the same site that servers the 'normal' web Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aureole Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 I don't see the point, too much work, too much messing around. If you want people to be able to access your Website with Portable Devices you should just make a seperate page for them...it's so much easier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToonMariner Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG Imagine a 2,000 page website - that becomes a 4,000 page website meaning you have to code twice as many pages.... 2,000 pages and just a different style sheet for each media type ( so just 2 for screen and handheld)... MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH.......... MUCH less work... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aureole Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 True but for a small site like mine it's easy to have another page for Portable Devices. Plus I don't know how to make alternative stylesheets for Portable Devices so... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToonMariner Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 if you did know (it just means adding the media="handheld" to the end of the <link tag!) then you will still only have to create one extra page to serve on small devices insetad of replicating the 10 pages of your small site. bottom line one extra css file is much less work than replication Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbrimlow Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 bottom line one extra css file is much less work than replication Absolutely! That's the true beauty and actual work-horse of CSS. I don't even bother with IE hacks anymore. I simply create an ie-only.css and use a conditional comment to sniff for IE in the page head. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFilmGod Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 Just so you know, IPHONE is not considered a handheld device. It has a full running mac computer software in it. So when you browse the web with the IPHONE it really renders the pages like a real computer. I don't bother with creating extra css for handheld devices. I don't have that many visitors anyway. LOL! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbrimlow Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 Funny, after reading this post, I checked my main site's urchin stats under platforms sure enough, out of the 130,000 or so visits, 10 were from various handhelds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToonMariner Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 some wap enabled phones will actually use the screen media type instead of the handheld... the iphone uses some cleaver bits and bobs to display a page as it would on a normal monitor but has the capability to magnify content. bottom line is you can only provide the ability for devices to choose a style sheet that will render the page properly on the appropriate device - what the device actually does will either be a strength or weakness in its marketability... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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