Re: Browser Detection another page

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 08:01:00PM +0000, Stuart wrote: > memoimyself@yahoo.com.br wrote: > >Before you read my comments below, let me say that I'm not trying to prove > >you *wrong* or even express disagreement with the points you made; I'm > >just interested in your reasons. > > An interesting topic, but the OP was checking if the client was a PDA. > Maybe it's just me, but I feel that serving a site that wasn't designed > for viewing on PDAs to PDAs is generally a bad thing. True, PDAs can't generally handle the same size/number of graphics that a desktop browser can. But what about the Treo? The Sidekick? The Zaurus? Do those get browser-detected as well? Or will they still get the same designed-for-desktop site that all non-WinCE devices get? As an alternative, use the same (X)HTML, and design an alternate stylesheet for handhelds, using the CSS media type options: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/media.html#media-types Now you can maintain the same content, and just have two different stylesheets. 'Course, this is the ideal; it's probably the case that not all handheld browsers recognize media="handheld" like they should. Perhaps the @import rule trick will work, as well. There is some discussion on alistapart: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/slashdot2/ about handheld emulators, and how XHTML/CSS-designed sites appear on them. However, this is way way OT now, and should probably be carried on offlist. Or, better yet, I bet css-discuss can provide tips for using CSS to support handheld browsers, without having to duplicate content or do browser sniffing. -- [ joel boonstra | gospelcom.net ]