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Posted by J.O. Aho on 09/12/07 17:59
Paul Furman wrote:
> J.O. Aho wrote:
>> Paul Furman wrote:
>>
>>> What is needed for mobile browser compatibility? This is in regards to
>>> Google ads. It seems the page in my sig just needs to be able to
>>> reformat the table listing for each item into a stacked list rather than
>>> the wide table, everything else will scrinch down to a tiny window and
>>> there already is an option to turn off the long descriptions and
>>> associated images or are images already turned off?
>>
>> Depends on which mobiles you want to support, we can make a simple
>> definition
>> of mobile browsers, group 1 that supports wml only and group 2 xhtml
>> browsers.
>>
>> The 2nd group is quite similar to browser xhtml, but is a lot less
>> forgiving
>> for microsoft type of coding (open tags may make the page not work at
>> all,
>> even cause the mobile browser to crash).
>>
>> The 1st group don't support much, only 2bit images, in best case and
>> no clue
>> about things you have in xhtml.
>>
>> You should check the cellular phone model and adjust the code to a
>> level which
>> it will manage, or make the page so simple that any cellular should be
>> able to
>> understand all the tags.
>>
>> I can say I'm quite bored of mobile browser compatibility and would be
>> happy
>> if I hadn't to care about those, but work is work...
>
> Ow, sounds like a mess. It's not that important to us really. Is there
> maybe a simulator to see what it would look like?
There are tools, most of them are written for one phone, but CS3 has module
for quite many phones. But I do mainly my "testing" on browser and when at the
final stage with the real mobile phones, as tools usually are more forgiving
than the real things.
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//Aho
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