Re: MWABP: Revised text for Device Capability Detection.

> I tried to give examples of the type of adaption possible but they haven't
> made it into the draft
> http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/Group/Drafts/BestPractices-2.0/ED-mobile-bp2-20090619#bp-devcap-scripting
>
> How about
>
> "CSS Media Queries: Media queries allow developers to apply style rules
> depending on certain attributes of the device. See Media Queries [CSSMQ].
> For adaptation that requires reformatting of layout, fonts, background
> images, colours or hiding elements from mobile devices, this may be the
> simplest method for the developer"
>
> or some such?
>
> bruce
>


Apologies for that, Bruce, I was probably over zealous with the trimming. I
like the text you give here and will update the draft.

re: Chaal's question:

> More to the point, this calls into question the strength of "prefer server
> side techniques". While it is clear that those are more powerful, and can
> reduce the amount of content sent to the client, they are more complicated
> and are not necessarily available.


Isn't the difference here that we're talking about Web *applications* rather
than simple content. That you can modify layout etc with stylesheets is kind
of taken as read. We should probably call this out more explicitly.

Received on Monday, 22 June 2009 08:17:29 UTC