On Jan 7, 2:05 pm, Roger <[email protected]> wrote: > Can't follow this. Quote properly, please.
Well, I mentioned browser sniffing, and this context, I was asking about iPhones as an example, after which I would expand to what ever other mobile device that I could, through the Blackberry browser, Opera mini browser, Opera mobile browser, and so on. He asked why I was only targeting these devices, the iPhones. I'm clarifying that I was interested in general browser sniffing, starting with the iPhone as an example. I have always made streamlining my sites with dial-up in mind. What I'm saying is that I don't deem even that to be enough for the mobile platform. There are also certain UI features, choices for types of form elements, and so on, that make sense on a desktop platform, but not so much with the inputs and displays of mobile devices. Because of that, I find it necessary to create a slimmed down, separate mobile site with only what it needs. This does not mean maintaining content on two different sites, because this content in this case would be generated from the server, or perhaps from XML. Only the UI itself would be split. That's why I was asking about browser sniffing, which is currently one of the ways I intend to serve a separate UI (but shared content source) to a mobile device. In any case, what would have been a neutral response was to simply point out, "hi, browser sniffing actually isn't a good idea. here's how we would normally do it for x and y positive reasons.", instead of breaking the quotes line by line, making remarks like 'start over', and not really telling me anything at all, or anything to back up why. If not for any purpose, was it being snide? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
