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Robert Nagle says (on June 2nd, 2007 at 3:14 pm )
This is an excellent article (definitely bookmarkable). However, one thing worth remembering is that ebooks and mobile RSS readers are also solving the platform-independence problem.
with ebooks, the mobipocket platform allows for lots of features and optimization for various mobile devices. Mobipocket even allows for RSS feeds to be wrapped up in a single binary file.
RSS readers remove design considerations altogether. My guess is that RSS readers, not webpages will be the reading method of choice on mobile devices.

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Virginia says (on June 2nd, 2007 at 3:56 pm )
Robert,
Excellent points. Thanks for adding this information to the comments.
Virginia

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Stefan says (on May 15th, 2007 at 6:14 pm )
Sometimes it is really crucial to create separate site for mobile browsers, not just applying different style sheet to an existing one. User experience on a mobile is different than on the desktop. Thus it is better to create mobile site from scratch and optimize design for it.

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Virginia says (on May 15th, 2007 at 6:28 pm )
Stefan, You are right. I did mention something like that in the Tips for Bloggers section, but there is no reason why the idea should only apply to blogs.

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Webmirer says (on June 8th, 2007 at 8:43 pm )

Very nice article indeed. I have since long been creating the mobile version of websites. Very well said by one of the visitors that if you are careful with the XTML, you are pretty much done. Also on the bit of testing, these days there are mobiles such as N80, N91, N95, E65 or for that matter any mobile which connect the internet using wlan is a good candidate for testing as well.

The only thing is that they probably will not understand the localhost on your local network, you have to host you website somewhere on the internet to access the actual website. Apart from that my pda works well for testing purposes for mobile css results. And it is better, as it can test anything on the network using wlan or bluetooth connection or active sync connection on the localhost.

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Chandra says (on May 18th, 2007 at 6:23 pm )

Thinkvitamin rocks and one more good article from you guys.
just to add if you strictly follow content out approach and write your XHTML markup before touching your CSS, you are almost done with important primary things.