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[nickl]

Couple questions -- First, most web sites look like **** on Pocket Explorer. Is there a list of great, useful sites (news, sports, weather, etc.) that are optimized for Pocket PC?

Second, I am a web developer myself, can I optimize a subdirectory of my site for Pocket PC (something like, pocketpc.mydomain.com) and simply make the screen area smaller, or do I need special tools to adapt the site to Pocket PC?

Thanks in advance.

[Steven Cedrone]

Couple questions -- First, most web sites look like s**t on Pocket Explorer. Is there a list of great, useful sites (news, sports, weather, etc.) that are optimized for Pocket PC?

Yaou can start with PliNkIT (http://members.bellatlantic.net/~blumax/plinkit/)...

Steve

[Don Sorcinelli]

Second, I am a web developer myself, can I optimize a subdirectory of my site for Pocket PC (something like, pocketpc.mydomain.com) and simply make the screen area smaller, or do I need special tools to adapt the site to Pocket PC?

Thanks in advance.

The answer to this is "depends" :roll: . You really need to factor in a lot - the server side language used (ASP.NET, PHP, etc) and access to web technologies (XSLT). With the latter, it is possible to do some rendering "on-the-fly". The more common approaches, however, are -

1) Write server-side "browser-sniffing" code and conditional logic;
2) Develop the Pocket PC version as a separate code "branch".

The second option is not too bad if you can call common logic (data access routines, rules processing logic).

BTW - if you can use ASP.NET, you can significantly reduce development time by way of "Mobile Web Applications".

Hope this helps (for starters).

DonS

[lithium]

Is there a list of great, useful sites (news, sports, weather, etc.) that are optimized for Pocket PC?

Try http://www.pocketpcmag.com/mobile.htm