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echo: barktopus
to: Phil Payne
from: Ad
date: 2007-05-01 06:51:00
subject: Re: Great news for home drone makers

From: Ad 

Phil Payne wrote:
>> "Handsets supporting JSR177 (enabling Java applications to talk to the
>> SIM), or those using open operating systems such as Windows Mobile and
>> Symbian, could support the full mapping, location, and route-planning
>> capabilities already familiar in dedicated GPS devices."
>
> Windows Mobile?  Open?
>

open to programmers.....

> I'm already seeing a significant number of accesses to the site from
> handhelds.
>

3G is slowly taking off. I have a mate who lives near Hull & gets crap
landline broadband speeds & his cheapest & best option is to leave
a 3 mobile phone etc plugged in as a router.

> I've consigned WAP to the dustbin of history and I've done some very
> successful trials of XHTML Strict and CSS blocks.  It really works - you CAN
> make pages that are fully useable on very small screens and still make sense
> to someone at 1280 x 1024.  Some browsers don't recognise the {at}media
> construct in CSS, but every handset less than three years old that I've
> tried does:
>

Oh indeed & if you combine it with Javascript....(assuming the mobile
browser does jscript) then you can set the classes etc to load a specific
CSS set for a specific resolution.

> {at}media screen, print {
>  body {
>  font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;
>  background-color: #FFFFFF;
>  margin-left: .2in;
>  margin-top: .1in;
>  margin-right: .2in;
>  margin-bottom: .5in;
> }
> td,th,p,blockquote,ul,ol,li, h1, h2, h3, h4 {
>  font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;
>     font-size: medium;
>  color: #000000;
> }
> td.l {
>  text-align: left;
> }
> caption {
>  font-weight: bold;
>  font-size: large;
> }
> a:link {
>  color: red;
> }
> a:visited {
>  color: green;
> }
> a:active {
>  color: blue;
> }
> h1 {
>  font-size: x-large;
>  text-align: center;
> }
> h1.header {
>  font-size: x-large;
>  text-align: center;
>  color: blue;
> }
> h2 {
>  font-size: large;
>     font-weight: bold;
>     text-align: center;
> }
> h3 {
>  font-size: small;
>     font-weight: normal;
>     text-align: center;
> }
> h4 {
>  font-size: x-large;
>  text-align: center;
>  color: blue;
> }
> p.copy {
>  text-align: center;
> }
> }
> {at}media handheld {
>  body {
>  background-color: #FFFFFF;
>  margin-left: 0px;
>  margin-top: 0px;
>  margin-right: 0px;
>  margin-bottom: 0px;
> }
> td,th,p,blockquote,ul,ol,li, h1, h2 {
>     font-size: x-small;
>  color: #000000;
> }
> h1 {
>  font-size: x-small;
>  text-align: center;
>  }
> h1.header {
>  font-size: x-small;
>  text-align: center;
>  color: blue;
> }
> h2 {
>  font-size: x-small;
>     text-align: center;
> }
> h3 {
>  font-size: small;
>     font-weight: normal;
>     text-align: center;
> }
> h4 {
>  font-size: x-small;
>     text-align: center;
>     color: blue;
> }
> p.copy {
>     display: none;
> }
>
>

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