RE: Best Practices document - not best practices

Its not generally possible for the server to detect window size without
help from the client.  Some browsers may send this information
automatically in custom headers but most don't.  I'm not aware of a
'standard' way of sending this info to the server.
 
JavaScript or similar could be used to determine the window size client
side, but this information then needs to be sent to the server for it to
be able to do anything with this information which is likely to require
another round trip.
 
The same is largely true about display capability; the server can lookup
device capability information for mobile devices, and get a reasonably
accurate answer providing the client sends enough information in the
request headers (e.g. user agent, reference to UAProf file) but this
won't work for laptops, PCs where different resolution screens can be
plugged in to them.
 
With the more capable mobile devices where additional software can be
installed, there's no guarantee that a third party browser has the same
display capabilities as the standard browser on that device, and often
the display capabilities of a browser differ from the physical screen
resolution, browsers often take up screen space to show titles, scroll
bars, margins etc.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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	From: public-bpwg-request@w3.org
[mailto:public-bpwg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Holley Kevin (Centre)
	Sent: 30 July 2005 10:07
	To: michael@mxtelecom.com; public-bpwg@w3.org
	Subject: Re: Best Practices document - not best practices
	
	

	Thanks Michael, Daniel,
	
	so it sounds like one best practice is to use a separate
stylesheet and not put that information in the header.
	
	I have another question though.
	
	Is it possible for the server to detect the size of window in
use - as opposed to the display capability?
	
	Regards,
	
	Kevin
	
	
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	-----Original Message-----
	From: public-bpwg-request@w3.org <public-bpwg-request@w3.org>
	To: public-bpwg@w3.org <public-bpwg@w3.org>
	Sent: Wed Jul 27 20:58:04 2005
	Subject: Re: Best Practices document - not best practices
	
	
	Daniel Barclay wrote:
	
	>
	> Holley Kevin (Centre) wrote:
	>
	>> ....  When looking at the WURFL site I
	>> note that the real content of the page (not the links or the
photos but
	>> the meat of the page ... i.e. text about WURFL ...)  ... is
towards the
	>> bottom of the HTML.  I rather suspect that HTML tools
deliberately put
	>> "meat" text at the bottom of the HTML.  Why is this? 
	>
	>
	> If you're talking about CSS style information that is embedded
in an HTML
	> document, it's at the top of the document because of HTML
format:  The
	> STYLE element has to be within the HEAD element, which is
comes before
	> the
	> BODY element.
	
	Also, if you don't have your rendering metadata before you start
	receiving your data, then you really have to wait until the end
of the
	document to render anything. This leads to bad error handling
(you can't
	display a partial document) and slow page load times (you cannot
begin
	to render until the last byte has arrived).
	
	Keeping the styling information at the top, or somehow first to
the
	rendering engine means that you can display content as soon as
you get
	it. Whether this is by putting it inline (like the wurfl site
does) or
	external to the page (like an xsl stylesheet, or a css link), it
has to
	be better.
	
	Michael
	
	
	

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