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Viewing webpages on the College of Engineering website with handheld devices

Web browser applications used for mobile and personal digital assistant (PDA) devices might render webpages differently from applications used for notebook and desktop computers:

Resources

Excellent articles:

Put Your Content in My Pocket, Part I

Put Your Content in My Pocket, Part II

Developing Web Applications for the iPhone

World Wide Web Consortium, Mobile Web Initiative

Making Small Devices Look Great (advice from Opera)

Handheld Stylesheets (Emerging XHTML/CSS and Waning WAP)

Etemad, E. & Newth, J. D. (2004, August 31). Pocket-sized design: Taking your website to the small screen. A List Apart 187. Retrieved September 20, 2004 from http://www.alistapart.com/articles/pocket/

The End-All Guide to Small-Screen Web-Dev by Heidi Pollock.
Pollock's article is best used in conjunction with two other Webmonkey articles about web standards developed by the World Wide Web Consortium: “Streamlining with Web Standards” by Greg Penhaligon and “Web Standards for Hard Times” by Paul Boutin.

Websites:

Google's open handheld operating system:
Android — An Open Handset Alliance Project
[contributed by JM]

Emulators for developers:

Openwave Developer Network Phone Simulator
[found by NH]

PalmOS Web Browser 2.0 developer information
http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/webbrowser/

Avantgo developer information
http://www.ianywhere.com/avantgo/developer/channel_developer/createcontent15.html#975986

Windows CE (Microsoft Pocket PC) developer information
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnppc2k/html/ppc_dev.asp

World Wide Web Consortium Guidelines:

http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-html40-mobile/#Guidelines
http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-html40-mobile/



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