Originally Posted by dontpannic:
“Do you mind if I ask why its centered around the iPhone?”
Because we have lots in the office and we noticed that over 1% of traffic to the site is from the iPhone so that was our first focus.
Obviously seeing the reaction here we have tried to make the site work well with other modern large screen phones - but we don't have examples so optimizing is difficult
Originally Posted by dontpannic:
“There are plenty more mobile devices which are more popular than Apple products and to some potential readers it may put them off. Perhaps "mobile.digitalspy.co.uk" could be this version, with "wap.digitalspy.co.uk" being the smaller version, therefore not limiting the user base to iPhone/iPod users.”
WAP is for WAP 2.0 phones
mobile was originally designed for basic XHTML phones
I have now added
www.digitalspy.mobi as a generic high end / large screen css and javascript capable phone browser - and with your help we can try to taylor the output against useragents where that only requires a change of css.
Finally there is iphone.digitalspy.co.uk which is the version that uses some of the iphone/ipod toch caperbilities (orientation for example).
Originally Posted by dontpannic:
“ As for comments, Opera Mini shows the full homepage as default, so there may be an issue with the user-agent, but its designed to show full webpages.”
I added Opera Mini to the list of PDA/Phone browser user agents yesterday do hopefully it should work today and show you the new site.
Originally Posted by dontpannic:
“It looks good on Pocket IE on my o2 XDA(HTC Artemis (P3300)), less some minor formatting issues probably related to screen resolutions.”
OK thanks. If you look at the example iphone screens that someone posted my goal is that headings should have a title on a maximum of 2 lines (occasionally 3) and that the abstract text should be the same size a body text and readable but not too big to allow a reasonable amount of content on a page.
Unfortunately each browser renders css differently so my first atempt using px (pixels) didn't work on many phones with different size screens; the current attempt use pt (points) and seems to be better but isn't perfect.