Posted by Harlan Messinger on 10/07/07 18:49

Harlan Messinger wrote:
> Karl Groves wrote:
>> dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote in news:doraymeRidThis-
>> 118B39.07520506102007@news-vip.optusnet.com.au:
>>
>>> In article <1191583146.710342.51170@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
>>> Phil Payne <phil@isham-research.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Globally, just over one-fourth (28%) of mobile phone owners worldwide
>>>> have browsed the Internet on a wireless handset, up slightly from 25%
>>>> at the end 2004.
>>> How come I don't know a single person who does this?
>>
>> I don't, either. Further, I think "...have browsed the Internet..."
>> is probably a bit deceiving. As soon as I found out my phone could
>> access the web, I tried it. It was so painful an experience, I've
>> never done it again.
>
> Certainly *plenty* of people are getting e-mail by phone. That *is* the
> Internet, you know. When you say "browse the Internet", you're really
> referring specifically to the Web.
>
> It's painful to access many sites, it's true. But Google is fine. Some
> sites have good mobile versions--Yahoo and the Washington Post, for
> example. The downloadable version of Google Maps for Windows Mobile,
> which pulls live data from the Internet, works really nicely on the
> Treo. Wikipedia--with several skins available, I'm surprised one hasn't
> been designed specifically for handheld devices, but in any event it
> works well in IE on Windows Mobile when I set it to use One Column mode.
> So I never have to wait till I get home or to the office to look stuff up.

Since writing this I've learned how to create my own custom CSS on
Wikipedia, and created a sheet of rules inside @media handheld {}
wrappers that override the default styling when I look at Wikipedia
pages in IE on my Treo. Looks great.

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