EmbeddedStream Mobile Version
After learning that I have at least one occasional mobile using accessing the site (yes Jimmy, that’s you!) I’ve put in place a much more appropriate stylesheet, linked in with the handheld media type. I’ve been testing this against Opera - pressing Shift-F11 will switch Opera to handheld mode and will emulate it’s rendering behaviour when running on a mobile device. I think overall it works pretty well. Some of the features include…
- Only 2 images in the design, and these are mini, mini images (3K each)
- Single column fluid layout
- More appropriate text sizing and margins
- Better sizing of form controls
I don’t really know enough about how widely the handheld media type has been adopted by mobile browsers, but I guess at least Opera crops up all over the place and it will render really nicely. Any feedback from my one mobile user would be appreciated 
While I was in the mood I’ve also added a print stylesheet, so think I should now be covered all round. I might have a little rant about Aural media type shortly, but will save that treat for another day.
2 Comments
1 James says...
Hi Oli, it does render will on the phone. I launched it specially on my samsung smartphone for you
The style sheet seems to be rendering structural information about the page that is not rendered on full browsers such as “Skip to Content” link and “Page Footer” HTH.
(Posted at 12:29 pm on December 11th, 2007)
2 Oli says...
Sadly all of the mobile browsers I’ve checked ignore the handheld media stylesheet, so although the std sheet gets rendered ok, all of my beautiful work is ignored
Thanks for checking!
(Posted at 7:12 pm on December 11th, 2007)