Well, I passed it on (i forgot where i first saw it)
because I think its a good solution compared to others
Ive seen. Its really simple, so its not as
code-obstructive as others, and can be removed for
special purposes.
The formatting solution vs function solution issue is
something youre going to need to take to the W3C -
HTML is all style and no function. Im sure Wikipedia
isnt the only site you have problems reading on your
Blackberry. Still, that does address perhaps a
technical need to show wikipedia articles in extremely
plaintext form - like printing mode, only with links
still in place. You should take this up with the
devos. There's probably already an FR on
for it.
SV
--- Justin Cormack <justin(a)specialbusservice.com>
wrote:
On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 14:50 +0100, Tony Sidaway
wrote:
On 10/7/05, Kelly Martin
<kelly.lynn.martin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Be careful using this. Some people still browse
Wikipedia on 800x600
> monitors, and I frequently use my Blackberry
to
access Wikipedia.
> Formatting like this may not transfer well
to
small-screen devices.
Actually it seems to be designed to scale
according to browser page width
(I
wish more pages did this!) A table may look
slightly odd if the available
screen width isn't enough to contain all the
text
and it has to wrap the
columns, but at least you get to see the text
without annoying horizontal
scroll. Wikipedia is actually quite good at this;
some sites such as gmail
are utterly hopeless, apparently written by
complete amateurs.
But it is markup by layout not function, and
therefore bad. There should
be a generic use as many columns as fit on the
screen - this forces 2.
I try to use wikipedia on my phone too quite often.
The main problem is
the amount of clutter around the information, which
lays out very badly
on a small screen. AT some point I migth play around
with how best to
fix this.
Justinc
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