On Oct 25, 11:39 pm, Mark Crispin <m...@CAC.Washington.EDU> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Steve Hix wrote:
> > Mark doesn't know about CSS, apparently.
>
> I know about CSS. I see nothing about CSS that is specific to iPhone as
> opposed to being general principles for any web design.
>
> If iPhone requires specific web design for iPhone, as opposed to proper
> overall web design, then iPhone creates its own type of web, just like WAP
> has done.
>
> There should be no need for a development center on how to design web
> pages for iPhone. It was a design mistake that a web server is able to
> identify the client implementation at all; that creates this type of
> fragmented "do this for iPhone, do this for IE, do this for Firefox, do
> this for Blurdybloop" quagmire that we find ourselves in today.
>
> I don't expect Mac fanboys to understand the argument in the previous
> paragraph.
>
> -- Mark --
>
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Please reconsider what you are saying here:

> If iPhone requires specific web design for iPhone, as opposed to proper
> overall web design, then iPhone creates its own type of web, just like WAP
> has done.

I can tell you very confidently that a css style sheet is easier to
implement on a web site than to re-purpose that site to conform to
WAP.

Additionally to that, css is a well understood and widely used method
of adjusting to different media needs.

WAP is not, and most likely, never will be.

The comparison you are presenting is terribly askew.

And not in your favour, especially as the Browser you recommend, IE,
is one of the main reasons alternative style sheets have to be
developed that would be entirely redundant if that browser worked
according to standards.