What tools helps designing sites which would be mobile phone friendly ? Something that would product the right CSS, the right html, etc
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I doubt you'll find too much that would make good markup for mobile phones across the board.
Here is a table for compatibility for different mobile browsers: http://www.quirksmode.org/m/table.html
If you are trying to make a page that works in a ton of mobile browsers, keep that chart close by.
If you are just looking for a way to make iphone specific mobile sites, you should check out jqTouch and/or XUI JS
Alex Sexton
2009-10-20 19:19:00
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The mobile aspect really has to be considered at the outset. Good, well-planned, structured site with textual content designed to be compatible to be appropriate for reformatting, and tailor-made css for media=handheld is your best bet.
If you want to try something very mobile specific, what about WALL http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/java/wall.php?
brinxmat
2009-10-20 19:23:04
have you used wufl ? looks interesting
bugspy.net
2009-10-20 20:15:27
I have avoided the user-agent recognition approach on purpose :D but I think that wurfl is a very good solution if you want to go that way – I believe that it has been used commercially and in academic communities (such as MIT Mobile) with much success. Personally, I prefer the re-purposable design approach, supporting only fully featured browsers on smartphones (mostly because I see the statistics on our servers :) )
brinxmat
2009-10-21 11:50:37
Yes. I agree. It's better to concentrate on few popular devices and do it well, than to to them all in an average way. But good to know about this tool
bugspy.net
2009-10-21 13:21:28
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There are no tools that would magically produce the “right” HTML or CSS. When writing HTML and CSS for Mobile Safari you simply stick to standards, for example HTML4/5 and CSS2+. The hard part is the design, and I am afraid there is no automatic solution. You have to design around the platform’s shortcomings (no mouse cursor, for example) and play to its strengths. A good document about writing web sites and applications for Mobile Safari is the Safari Web Content Guide by Apple.
zoul
2009-10-20 19:26:58
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You could use the Dashcode IDE which comes as part of the Apple Developer Tools. It comes with a collection of templates for creating web content to target the iPhone.
Jasarien
2009-10-20 20:04:40