I was recently asked to "just stick a link at the top" of one of our sites to offer hand held users the use of http://stackoverflow.com">Google's Wireless Transcoder.
Initially I was skeptical but as I started to look into it I became intrigued that this could save me a lot of work. Though I'd love to implement a hand held solution for all our sites, I don't have the time, So I started taking this request a little seriously and maybe intercepting all user agents identify themselves as hand helds, but the more I think about it the more I get nervous that I'm going to screw something up.
I know that there is a lot of thinking that should go into this, and some of the things that immediately come to mind are:
- The ability to support access to gated content
- The ability to style the site
- Tracking (or getting metrics) users considering they're coming through a proxy
- The inability to display ads
- Any other gotchas that I haven't thought about yet
I'm going to have to get this thought through quickly before I'm told to just throw this link up there.
Does anyone have any useful information that would help me in my decision to do or reject this, either on a global scale or on a more measured individual scale for just this site (understanding that just this site will probably quickly roll out to every site at the individual level...)?
Cheers
Steve