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Oddly, it's a spin-off from a gimmick. Practically all poserphones
One section of my site (hobby) is designed to assist Audi quattro
One such page is http://www.isham-research.co.uk/quattro/torque.html -
I'm very interested in the future of handheld technology (
> Drop a *brief* note in this thread with:
Not the site specifically, but aligning markup for the expansion of
> - Your site's URL.
> - The goal of your site ("sell widgets online," "visually teach people
> how to lindy hop," etc.)
> - One problem or challenge you're facing ("worried that the Googlebot
> sees widget variations as duplicate content," "Want to get more of my
> lindy videos indexed")
the handheld market - quite a big issue over here in Europe.
now on sale have cameras built in - and of course to support those
they have fairly high-resolution displays. So much so (I wandered
around CEX in Sheffield yesterday) that even poserphones coming onto
the secondhand market en masse have no room on their fronts for
keyboards - they're almost all ( 19 of 20 ) slider-type designs.
These things have ( weight for weight ) incredibly capable XHTML
browsers - some are OpenWave based, some Opera, some Mini-Opera, etc.
owners. Audi built 11,000 quattros - three a day by hand over 11
years. I've designed that section of the site to use relative
addressing, and I'm rolling out XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS to make the
pages accessible from handhelds. The reasons for relative addressing
are that I can test the structure offline, and I can burn the site
into a RS-MMC card (for instance) and use it in a handheld without
network access.
tested ( by me ) down to a pixel width of 132, but I have a regular
user downloading it to a width of 122.
http://www.isham-research.co.uk/handheld-friendly.html ) but I don't
see that future in artificial partitioning of the web into mobile and
non-mobile sectors - that seems to me to be against the whole ethos of
a single web.