Monday, 3 December 2007

Websites need to aim for mobile displays

I browse the net from my Nokia 770 and also my K800i. What strikes me is that web designers are still not making accessible pages. Often I find there are PDF links which are so bulky they take 30secs to view on the 770, or simply cant be viewed on my K800i. Then there are Adobe Flash files embedded into the pages. Often the pages don't fit on the screen and disabling the images to speed up browsing leaves it looking a mess.

Web designers need to make sure their page will fit the width, my weblog for instance comes in at under 800px, including the scroll bar and window declarations. Image sizes should be included in the HTML, so that when they're not downloaded the page is still layed out correctyly (also helping the layout display while the page is being downloaded).. All obvious stuff, so just need the mobile browsers to catch up, and the designers to take note!

Also would be nice if caches like google included the images as well as the text, because I use the cache links when the real pages go down, but then the cached page references the orginal images and I have to disable the image display to let the page download.

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