You don't need a separate page for wireless devices
Tuesday July 3, 2007
It's funny, but Web devlopment has been around long enough that we have some habits that we need to change.
One of those habits is the impulse to build a new page for every situation. But, in the case of cell phones and other wireless devices, that isn't necessary. All you need is a separate style sheet. Eventually, most Web pages will have 2-3 style sheets associated with them: one for a computer screen, one for printing, and one for handheld devices.
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Interesting. Except now I need a web-browsing cell phone (and web-browsing-cell-phone charges) to test my designs…
Thank you!
Well as far as testing goes, this site’s purpose supposedly if for doing so, although this does not mean it covers the iPhone panic, which I do not fully believe in, but it’s always good to get a foot in anyway and be ahead of those who don’t do research on site’s amazing as the one we are now. ;op haha. but here worth a try, nice technology, prop to the developers, and a Thank You to ALL!
http://webdesign.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=webdesign&cdn=compute&tm=147&f=00&su=p284.8.150.ip_&tt=2&bt=1&bts=0&zu=http%3A//www.barkleyus.com/wap
You can test with an Opera browser. Shift-f11 puts you in a “small screen” mode.
Not perfect, but very handy.
-Mike
[added by Jennifer Kyrnin] - There’s a quick how to on this on the site Use Opera’s Small-Screen Rendering to Test Pages for Handhelds