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Retrofit Your Web Pages For Wireless Compatibility

Posted by Zonk on from the sunday-project dept.

An anonymous reader writes "You probably don't want to maintain Web and wireless versions of the same site or take on the overhead of Extensible Markup Language (XML) transformations. This article shows you a more practical approach to wireless compatibility. With some well-designed XHTML, a bit of CSS, and the media attribute, you can do wonders. Create more flexible, Mobile device ready, Web pages with XHTML and CSS."

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  1. This makes me feel so old and so sad by Simon+Brooke · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you weren't writing flexible web design ten years ago, you should have been. There's nothing new in it; and indeed, much of what is being suggested in this article is still bad old inflexible design, which will still break badly on devices which you did not expect.

    never — never — use absolute (pixel) dimensions for anything other than images. You don't know how many pixels wide the screen you're addressing is. The browser at the far end does, though, and if you get out of its way and let it do it's job intelligently, it will.

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    I'm old enough to remember when discussions on Slashdot were well informed.
  2. Check your results using Opera! by e2mtt · · Score: 5, Informative

    FWIW, you can check out your site in Opera using Small Screen Rendering (shift+F11) for an easy preview. It follows css rules nicely.