Web design for PDAS/ Smartphones?

Some clients would like to be able to use my calendaring software on
their wireless hand held devices. I have no idea if my sites can even
be displayed on such devices. Is there any website that discusses how
to design your site so it can be viewed on those things?

I am guessing graphics are not allowed, but about simple html tables
with input forms?

Thx!

Previously in alt.www.webmaster, <squash@peoriadesignweb.com> said:

> Some clients would like to be able to use my calendaring software on
> their wireless hand held devices. I have no idea if my sites can even
> be displayed on such devices.

Opera has a small-screen mode (can't remember if that's what it's
called), which I believe is a fairly accurate approximation.

> Is there any website that discusses how
> to design your site so it can be viewed on those things?

Just follow the normal accessibility guidelines.

> I am guessing graphics are not allowed,

Why not? As long as they have appropriate alternative text (which they
should anyway), it won't be an issue, regardless of whether the UA
supports images or not.

> but about simple html tables
> with input forms?

No problems, providing the tables linearise logically. Though whether a
form is tabular data is still a matter of debate.

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Mark Parnell
http://www.clarkecomputers.com.au

squash@peoriadesignweb.com wrote:
> Some clients would like to be able to use my calendaring software on
> their wireless hand held devices. I have no idea if my sites can even
> be displayed on such devices. Is there any website that discusses how
> to design your site so it can be viewed on those things?
>
> I am guessing graphics are not allowed, but about simple html tables
> with input forms?

Yes ... most of it no problem, if I was designing for a PDA - a specific
PDA, I would probably use Flash, just because of extra features ...

G

Mark Parnell wrote:

> Previously in alt.www.webmaster, <squash@peoriadesignweb.com> said:

>> Some clients would like to be able to use my calendaring software on
>> their wireless hand held devices. I have no idea if my sites can even
>> be displayed on such devices.

> Opera has a small-screen mode (can't remember if that's what it's
> called), which I believe is a fairly accurate approximation.

Ayup. View|SmallScreen (Shift+F11)

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I just would like to know who the hell pinned the tail on the donkey?
"Tables are for tabular data".

To be more correct, a table is a "Data table".
What is "data"?
Data is information of any kind placed within a table.
Ergo, the tag <TD> or "Table Data". NOT "Tabular Data".

The original "Table" format was designed to mimick the function of a
spreadsheet.
Before CSS, Tables were the only way to do things.
Now with CSS, we have a second option.

Now how soon will it be before CSS is replaced with something else?



The preceding rant was courtesy of the "Lord of the Bull".

Mark Parnell wrote:

> Opera has a small-screen mode (can't remember if that's what it's
> called), which I believe is a fairly accurate approximation.

Opera makes mobile phone browsers, and SSR on Opera's *desktop* browsers
show more or less *exactly* when their mobile phone browsers show.

It's not a great approximation for other brands of mobile phone browsers
though.

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Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
Contact Me ~ http://tobyinkster.co.uk/contact

squash wrote:

> I am guessing graphics are not allowed, but about simple html tables
> with input forms?

Graphics are usually fine is you keep them small (pixel area AND byte size)

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