Creating a site for palm browsers 2

[wuzzle]

We have to create a website that, in the end, will serve as an editable phone list. It's going to use ASP, but that's another story.

The question I have right now is: How do I put this together so it can be viewed on a hand-held browser, like a Blackberry or Palm Pilot, etc. ? I know I should use XHTML (easy) and not use frames (hate them anyway), but is there anything else I should watch out for? Should I scrap graphics or no?

Thanks alot

 

[aperfectcircle]

Microsoft's site has some pretty good resources for this. If you haven't already, check out

http://www.microsoft.com/mobile/developer/default.asp

 

[keypounder]

webmonkey has recently published some good info/tutorials
If I remember corectly XML is a given among other requirements, check it out.

 

[wuzzle]

Cool, I found some useful stuff.

One more thing, I know that sites like Google can detect if you're using a hand-held device and then it just displays the text version of the site. Anyone know how to detect what they're viewing with?

 

[vasah20]

Since you're using ASP, you can download a browser component (such as browserhawk) or even use the MSWC.BrowserType and I know that those can detect the user's browser on server-side. I would assume that by downloading a 3rd party component such as Browserhawk, they would incorporate the necessary code to find out whether someone is surfing around on a palm based browser or not.

anyways here's the link to browserhawk:

http://www.cyscape.com/products/bhawk/download.asp

and here's a reference on XHTML Basic

http://www.zvon.org/xxl/xhtmlBasicReference/Output/

We haven't started our wireless initiative here at work yet, but keep me posted as to how your development goes.

good luck
leo

 

[keypounder]

Please keep me posted too
Henry

 

[wuzzle]

I'll definitely keep you updated. Thanks for the links, Vasah.