We have a version for PDAs at http://www.shu.ac.uk/pda
It uses existing content pulled from databases and was created when I had a Friday afternoon with nothing better to do.
If you view it in a normal web browser it looks a mess, but thanks to the 'reduced feature set' of the pocket version of IE it
looks quite reasonable when viewed on an actual Pocket PC. I haven't got a smart phone, so I have no idea what it looks like on
one of those - when these become more commonplace we might look at fixing the string and sticky-tape back end.
I suspect that the majority of users would prefer football scores and news on the go rather than university course information and
our usage stats back this up!
Will
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Subject: Websites on Mobile Phone Browser
Does anyone have any examples of University/College websites which are viewable or have sub-sites specifically designed
for use on a mobile phone/PDA browser? By this I don't mean WAP sites but more versions for browsers such as Pocket IE.
Regards,
Duncan
Duncan Davidson BSc(Hons) CEng MBCS CITP AMIMA
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