Not so long ago a web site had to be designed to suit mobile devices. We were looking at WAP enabled steam powered phones and doing our best with clunky technology. I remember implementing a site that catered for
*Good browsers
*Internet explorer (it was even worse back then!)
*Ancient browsers
*Folk using WebTV
*WAP mobiles
I used a different CSS approach for each of them based upon my ability to detect their device/browser type.
The current generation of smart phones is, surely, immune to all web design? We chose not to do anything special with http://dartmouthmuseum.org on the basis that phone technology and pad technology is, surely, sufficient to overcome even the Dreamweaver free template that we use, clunky HTML or not! Though I did have to upgrade the template to XHTML to overcome some oddities!
I do have a site today that detects IE users and suggests they get a browser that is standards compliant, though!
On 19 Sep 2012, at 11:07, Sexton, Charlotte wrote:
> Hi all,
> I’m looking for inspiration!
> Can you recommend any really well designed mobile friendly websites and or
> apps which you think work brilliantly?
> They don’t have to be museum specific – anything you’ve used which you think
> is really well tailored to mobile interaction will do.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Best
> Charlotte
>
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