On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 02:12:01AM -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
At the moment I think we can roughly divide the mobile browsers into two categories:
- Those that render much like a full desktop browser and let you zoom as
necessary (iPhone/Mobile Safari, Opera Mini, ...?)
- Those that have very limited CSS and JavaScript or strip a lot of
stuff down (Opera Mini in "mobile view" mode, most others?)
There's a middle case: the Blackberry browser doesn't zoom, but it *will* do images, CSS, JScript... if you turn them on. I don't, and I still get a pretty decent Wikipedia experience.
One thing that drives me up a tree, which we *don't* do (happily) is see that the browser looks mobile, and forcibly restrict the user to a reduced experience that they may not want.
Worse are news sites mobilized by, like, mDog, which hijack perfectly useful URLs supplied to me by sites like Slashdot or Drudge (both tech and general news sites use mDog and it's brethren), and hammer me back to a mobilized homepage, ignoring the story I was trying to link to.
We don't do that either. Thank ghod.
As someone else noted, if a set of test pages is assembled, I'd be glad to report, from my POV.
Cheers, -- jra