RE: Linking to alternate resources

I agree with you that <link rel="alternate" media="handheld"> in theory should be used by a desktop page to say "hey, there is a mobile optimized version of me", however now it is also used to say "hey myself it is a mobile web page!" (if the href atribute points to the page itself).

AFAIK Opera Mini uses other mechanism which is the detection of a <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="handheld">. If they see that they won't touch your page. That's because in MyMobileWeb we send a fake CSS to flag Opera Mini our pages :)

I agree that something standard is needed, to say that a page is a mobile optimized page, but also to say, for which DCs a page provide the best user experience.

I wonder if POWDER has something to do with this and can provide another solution ...

Best Regards
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De: public-bpwg-ct-request@w3.org [public-bpwg-ct-request@w3.org] En nombre de Jo Rabin [jrabin@mtld.mobi]
Enviado el: martes, 06 de mayo de 2008 18:06
Para: Francois Daoust; public-bpwg-ct
Asunto: RE: Linking to alternate resources

> (and CSS media queries is a
> Candidate Rec, not a Rec)

And implementations not exactly thick on the ground.

I'm not sure how this helps? I am looking for a way for a content provider to say "This representation is intended for mobile". Media queries doesn't do that, does it. Some think like:

<meta name="media" content="handheld" />

would fit the bill.

Jo

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Francois Daoust [mailto:fd@w3.org]
> Sent: 06 May 2008 16:54
> To: Jo Rabin; public-bpwg-ct
> Subject: Linking to alternate resources
>
> Not directly connected to the "confusing" part of the linking mechanism,
> but re-reading today's minutes:
>
> > Link element in HTML requests
> >[...]
> >    jo: exactly, it's a useful mechanism to link to more appropriate
> >    versions but how can you identify what user-agents THIS version is
> >    suitable for?
>
> The mechanism being exactly the same as the one used to link to a CSS
> style sheet, user-agent cannot be used for linking to alternate
> representations, but CSS media queries should still be part of the
> equation with the possibility to define something like:
>       media="handheld and (max-device-width: 200px)"
>
> I don't think anyone uses links to alternate representations with that
> level of details for the time being though (and CSS media queries is a
> Candidate Rec, not a Rec)
>
> François.

Received on Tuesday, 6 May 2008 17:59:01 UTC