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I've stayed away from mobile browser development for anything other than iPhone and Android. In the past, BlackBerry's user-agent was unique to the phone, not t
by pxlpshr 18y ago
I've stayed away from mobile browser development for anything other than iPhone and Android. In the past, BlackBerry's user-agent was unique to the phone, not the browser, making it extremely difficult to target ALL the BlackBerry handsets with one swoop. In addition, mobile browsing has been dumbed down — I'm not sure you really need a CSS framework given the simplicity.
As for the iPhone, I'm a fan of iWebkit. It could be very easily tailored to work on the Android, IMO.
http://iwebkit.net http://iwebkit.net
And here are 3 tags for mobile Safari you'll find useful:
<meta content="yes" name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" />
<meta content="minimum-scale=1.0, width=device-width, maximum-scale=0.6667, user-scalable=no" name="viewport" />
<link href="http://link-to-your.com/app-icon.png" rel="apple-touch-icon" />
- davidw 18y agoThe phone I have, a Nokia 6120, actually has a good browser, it's just that the screen is awfully small compared to, say, a laptop, so things laid out with a rigid pixel width are going to look kind of wrong/not work out as well as they might. However, I'm far from an expert, so I'm curious what solutions other people have found.
- jhancock 17y agoI don't think there is a "one size fits all" answer. A grid based layout may work best for the big screen and you are probably best off with custom layouts for each major phone platform. Life sucks ;)