Comments on: Designing Mobile Web Sites http://www.meryl.net/2005/11/designing-mobile-web-sites/ Content on writing, tech, business, marketing, web design. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:08:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Eric Y. Theriault http://www.meryl.net/2005/11/designing-mobile-web-sites/#comment-862 Eric Y. Theriault Sat, 12 Nov 2005 05:36:54 +0000 http://meryl.net/new/2005/11/08/designing-mobile-web-sites/#comment-862 <p>I have recently upgraded my handheld and one of the reasons was essentially to avoid lugging around a laptop and access websites: in fact I am on it right now. Many websites are fairly usable but definitely lack the finesse they have on desktops.</p> <p>I have not yet had a chance to read your article, but I wanted to point out that on Windows Mobile 5's Internet Explorer, your site is only usable with its one column view. In the default mode, the screen is mostly empty except for about one quarter of the screen which you paragraph renders, with one cr two words per line.</p> <p>Just thought you would like to know.</p> <p>eyt*</p> I have recently upgraded my handheld and one of the reasons was essentially to avoid lugging around a laptop and access websites: in fact I am on it right now. Many websites are fairly usable but definitely lack the finesse they have on desktops.

I have not yet had a chance to read your article, but I wanted to point out that on Windows Mobile 5’s Internet Explorer, your site is only usable with its one column view. In the default mode, the screen is mostly empty except for about one quarter of the screen which you paragraph renders, with one cr two words per line.

Just thought you would like to know.

eyt*

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