gwinter
06-10-2005, 04:14 PM
We all know how useful and pleasant web-browsing on PPC can be when a website is optimized for the small device screen. PPCT is an example. But more often than not these optimized pages simply cannot contain all the information that the full version do. This is where a link to the full version of the page is needed. Again PPCT is a good example with the "Desktop version" link at the bottom of the page.
I was going over to microsoft's webpage, trying to download something. There are some URLs that I can easily recall. www.microsoft.com/mobile is one of them. But what do I get? Mobile version of the webpage which is very nicely done. But where is the link to the full version of the webpage?
Some search later, I was able to get to the page that I wanted. I decided now that I wanted to download the SDK for WM2003 (No, I don’t have broadband connection at my desktop at this time. Besides 80+ Mbytes is not really that large nowadays, even for a pocket pc). Again I kept running into the same problem.
Try getting more information on developing for mobile devices. See for example msdn.microsoft.com/smartclient, or about .NET Compact Framework at msdn.microsoft.com/smartclient/netcf. Each time you're being sent to an "optimized" webpage without any possibility to get to the full version of the webpage.
So to all webmasters, please, provide the option to bypass the sniffer function that serves up mobile-optimized pages. It would save a lot of hair-pulling. True, maybe the client will not able to render the page correctly, or at all. But please leave the decision on what page to load to the user.
I was going over to microsoft's webpage, trying to download something. There are some URLs that I can easily recall. www.microsoft.com/mobile is one of them. But what do I get? Mobile version of the webpage which is very nicely done. But where is the link to the full version of the webpage?
Some search later, I was able to get to the page that I wanted. I decided now that I wanted to download the SDK for WM2003 (No, I don’t have broadband connection at my desktop at this time. Besides 80+ Mbytes is not really that large nowadays, even for a pocket pc). Again I kept running into the same problem.
Try getting more information on developing for mobile devices. See for example msdn.microsoft.com/smartclient, or about .NET Compact Framework at msdn.microsoft.com/smartclient/netcf. Each time you're being sent to an "optimized" webpage without any possibility to get to the full version of the webpage.
So to all webmasters, please, provide the option to bypass the sniffer function that serves up mobile-optimized pages. It would save a lot of hair-pulling. True, maybe the client will not able to render the page correctly, or at all. But please leave the decision on what page to load to the user.