Does the Blackberry recognise different media type instructions or even CSS at all?
For instance, if I created a stylesheet for media="mobile" would it use that in preference to the "standard" sheet?
RE: PDFs. (going of on a tangent a bit)
I agree that for online use a PDF perhaps isn't great. Although it's possible to easily download a PDF and use it offline.
The reason I don't like using them online is that the PDF viewer tends to be loaded into the browser window, which seems dumb to me. Obviously there are size issues too, but screen based PDFs can be pretty small, it's just you are getting the whole thing at once rather than a page at a time.
Even though PDF is a print technology it's an excellent option for use on screen for presenting manuals. It's single file nature means that it's more easily portable. It's easier to print from (duh), image quality will be better for vector images such as diagrams, text can be rendered in any font you choose, the layout can be properly designed with due attention to typographic considerations.... you get the idea.
Yes you need software to view a PDF, but you need software to view a webpage - a web browser. PDF viewers are free and bundled with just about everything, it's easy and free to obtain a licence to distribute a viewer too and it can be included on any transport medium with the actual manual.
Creating it may also require additional software, but again there are free, open source PDF creation tools available and nowadays many publishing applications can export directly to PDF anyway. Mac OSX, for example, has PDF creation built directly into the OS. I would expect to see something similar with future versions of Windows, and Linux users will probably just write their own ;-)
The final benefit I will mention is that manuals can be created for print and easily repurposed for digital distribution.
RE: Fidelity.
The question is
why aren't they framesets before you log in. Someone, somewhere obviously thought that it wasn't the best solution. We agree that frames have their place - do we also agree that the majority of people that come here (for instance) really don't need to be going anywhere near framesets?
RE: Porn sites
I've seen a few using frames, but they were all rubbish.
Hang on, did I implicate myself there?
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