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› February 20, 2002

Handheld Web Viewing

  • Reported by Nate

Someone, (I'll call him "the boss") tried downloading the webgraphics homepage plus one level below of links to his Palm device using a tool called Fireviewer. Was delighted to see how readable it ended up, and am considering making templates which optimize content for various handheld devices. There are three issues tho - 1. this site is mostly outside links at the moment, when I eventually get enough time to write another feature article, that type of content might make more sense. 2. Which handheld browser/markup/platform is the most prevelent? Would a comprimse output do better, or is there a few clear leaders? 3. Doing this is somewhat against the purpose of the whole xhtml/css layout movement, matter of fact this site renders quite nicely as is in the few handheld browsers I've checked it with.

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1. February 21, 2002 02:35 PM

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jack Posted…

just switched to AvantGo. pages display much better than Fireviewer. I'm actually writting this on my palm.