Phone or PDA

tinyk · 02-18-2005, 11:11 PM

Does anyone know what the restrictions are for programming a webpage that will be viewed both by computers and pda's/phones? can you use css? flash? tables? nested tables?
Any help or direction would be great! Thanks,
Kathy

Byronc · 02-18-2005, 11:16 PM

All that stuff works, though the Flash player typically supported is no later than 4. The key thing is to have a way of detecting the operating system, to detect when, for instance, Windows Mobile is being used. Check out the source code of the Google home page, and you'll see what I mean (they have it automagically converted to PDA version via a scripted detection routine).

02-18-2005, 11:11 PM	#1
tinyk Registered User Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 151	Phone or PDA Does anyone know what the restrictions are for programming a webpage that will be viewed both by computers and pda's/phones? can you use css? flash? tables? nested tables? Any help or direction would be great! Thanks, Kathy

02-18-2005, 11:16 PM	#2
Byronc Digital Curmudgeon Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: http://www.were-here.com Posts: 58	All that stuff works, though the Flash player typically supported is no later than 4. The key thing is to have a way of detecting the operating system, to detect when, for instance, Windows Mobile is being used. Check out the source code of the Google home page, and you'll see what I mean (they have it automagically converted to PDA version via a scripted detection routine). __________________ Byron “Barn” Canfield Gone back to were-here.com* where I need not tolerate oldnewbie's juvenile behavior.*

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