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The Yiibu link at the end of my article shows how you can build sites that work on low-end phones and older browsers, as well as Android and iPhone and modern d
by mbrubeck 16y ago
The Yiibu link at the end of my article shows how you can build sites that work on low-end phones and older browsers, as well as Android and iPhone and modern desktop browsers. They do it by reversing some of the more common development practices. Rather than use CSS and JavaScript to transform a desktop site into a mobile one, you can start with a mobile-friendly site, and then use CSS and JavaScript to progressively enhance it in more advanced browsers.
If you haven't seen it already, their presentation is highly recommended:
http://yiibu.com/articles/rethinking-the-mobile-web/page-3.html http://yiibu.com/articles/rethinking-the-mobile-web/page-3.h...
...in particular, the part starting with "the absence of support for @media queries is in fact the first @media query" (slide 85).