Re: Best reference for web site creation on the Pocket PC

From: Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] (neil_at_nospam.com)
Date: 03/13/04 

Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 16:25:48 GMT

I think Opera and Webmonkey have the best resources for small screen
devices - check out the info on SSD from Opera for phones, pocket PC
and more : http://my.opera.com/community/dev/device/writing/ and
links.

Then, note that you don't usually "detect" the PPC as such, you should
provide content with a style*** tailored to the device, rather than
full screen browsers. Use the @media designation in the link, eg

<link rel="style***" href="ppc.css" media="handheld">

This ought to work out fine for last years devices, not too sure about
css support in PIE/ PPC2003 but as long as you're conservative about
layout it will work out fine. Always try to use xhtml so that your
markup actually corresponds to some kind of document structure rather
than font-bold-italic-line break tag soup on many of MS pages :-p

Principally, small screen devices have a range of common and poorly
supported attributes and behaviours in their web browsers; A full and
extensive review is here :

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/04/12/index4a.html?tw=design

HTH
Cheers - Neil

On 12 Mar 2004 16:18:03 -0800, joewasik@msn.com (Joe Wasik) wrote:

>Below are two great links I found to get information on how to develop
>web sites for display on the Pocket PC -- and develope applications
>for the Pocket PC.
>
>It would be great if anyone knew of some good (best) books to help
>someone get started doing web sites, in particular. For example, how
>best to detect the PDA, how to redirect, best colors to use, best
>scripting practices, etc.
>
>Anyone's 2 cents worth will be appreciated. Thank you.
>
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/guide_ppc/htm/_ppc_creating_online_content_for_pocket_pc_lovq.asp
>
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnppc2k/html/ppc_dev.asp
>
>
>No email please -- it's been spam proofed.

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