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"When
the underlying structure is sound,
and when CSS delivers your layout, your
site
may work as well in a Palm Pilot,
screen reader, or web-enabled phone
as it does in traditional browsers." - Jeffrey Zeldman (author of the best-selling Designing With Web Standards (www.zeldman.com/dwws/)
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The
key phrase here is "...may
work well...".
Well, last time I checked, Zeldman's book has a whole chapter that
says CSS doesn't work well between
all browsers,
especially the size of text
and fonts.
So, if
CSS can't even get font sizes right on browsers like IE, Mozilla or
Netscape, just how in the world will
CSS get it right for a 2inch x 3inch
Palm
Pilot?
Furthermore, different devices
have totally different uses (and users)
than browsers do, and so the content
is going to be different anyway. There
is no "porting" it here. It's just going to be a total
redesign and page reduction as there is only so much stuff (text
or content) you display on a 2" x 3" screen
anyway.
In other words, you don't save a bit of time using CSS tables to port
a real live production web page to a Palm Pilot as it's a complete
redesign anyway.
Users are going to be navigating differently and doing different things
in the first place. For instance, when was the last time you bought
something on a Palm Pilot
or did 2 hours of product research on your Palm Pilot while sitting
at Starbucks? Sony has been making 2inch x 3inch TV's for over 15
years, but do you want to
sit 3+ hours squinting our eyes to watch the Lord of the Rings?
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