I tested some webpages including ALA on Siemens CX65. Everything just fine. Siemens uses browser from Openwave which ignores CSS. Links like “Skip navigation”, “Top of the page” are really useful. I think that link skipping main content to menus on the right on ALA would be useful too.
I’ll be honest- I’m hugely excited about the fact that more and more handheld devices are managing to deal with XHTML and CSS.
Being a Nokia 6600 owner (symbian operating system with Opera installed) I have already managed to experince the joys ahead.
But I’ll tell you one thing (two actually…):
1. Surfing the internet wirelessly on my laptop with gfx@full resolution, XP Pro, latest I.E. and plug-ins, is quite a difference experience to the slugginsh, boring looking days of even as recent as 1998.
The handheld devices will go through a similar perdios of maturity, and most of our work won’t even need special mark-up, just GOOD mark-up (like ANYTHING viewing it needs!)
2. I just hope the likes of V0d4F0n£ et. al. don’t lock the Internet down to their poor services too tightly. (If I’m honest, I haven’t even managed to try out Opera on my handset yet because the V0d4F0n£ ‘L1V£’ settings don’t seem to allow me to bypass their bespoke (and comparitively poor) software)
Oh well, that’s my two cents worth, I’d appreciate your thoughts :)
I’m off to install the Managed Fax Service on MS SBS 2003, and then it’s back to php, MySQL and XHTML/CSS :D
I’ve been using Opera for desktop since long. I badly need a version for my Palm OS4 handheld and I’m sure there are many others around who’d want a standards based browser for the palm. The only one that comes close is the Xiino3 and is still far from it though it is the best around. Blazer and iPanel lag far behind.
A word of advise though. Make it for OS4 and add compatibility for OS5 as majority of Palm users are still on 4. You can’t just upgrade your software but need to upgrade your hardware too
Embracing standards in Web Design is the right way to go, after readind this article I noticed that a lot of sites developed using standards are already Pocket-Sized friendly.
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I tested some webpages including ALA on Siemens CX65. Everything just fine. Siemens uses browser from Openwave which ignores CSS. Links like “Skip navigation”, “Top of the page” are really useful. I think that link skipping main content to menus on the right on ALA would be useful too.
Coos
I’ll be honest- I’m hugely excited about the fact that more and more handheld devices are managing to deal with XHTML and CSS.
Being a Nokia 6600 owner (symbian operating system with Opera installed) I have already managed to experince the joys ahead.
But I’ll tell you one thing (two actually…):
1. Surfing the internet wirelessly on my laptop with gfx@full resolution, XP Pro, latest I.E. and plug-ins, is quite a difference experience to the slugginsh, boring looking days of even as recent as 1998.
The handheld devices will go through a similar perdios of maturity, and most of our work won’t even need special mark-up, just GOOD mark-up (like ANYTHING viewing it needs!)
2. I just hope the likes of V0d4F0n£ et. al. don’t lock the Internet down to their poor services too tightly. (If I’m honest, I haven’t even managed to try out Opera on my handset yet because the V0d4F0n£ ‘L1V£’ settings don’t seem to allow me to bypass their bespoke (and comparitively poor) software)
Oh well, that’s my two cents worth, I’d appreciate your thoughts :)
I’m off to install the Managed Fax Service on MS SBS 2003, and then it’s back to php, MySQL and XHTML/CSS :D
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Faridur Rahman Choudhury
I’ve been using Opera for desktop since long. I badly need a version for my Palm OS4 handheld and I’m sure there are many others around who’d want a standards based browser for the palm. The only one that comes close is the Xiino3 and is still far from it though it is the best around. Blazer and iPanel lag far behind.
A word of advise though. Make it for OS4 and add compatibility for OS5 as majority of Palm users are still on 4. You can’t just upgrade your software but need to upgrade your hardware too
Edgard Durand
Embracing standards in Web Design is the right way to go, after readind this article I noticed that a lot of sites developed using standards are already Pocket-Sized friendly.