Windows Mobile 2003 supports CSS!

Colin Dunstan · 08-18-2004, 05:23 AM

Great news for all PocketPC owners. Pocket IE on Windows Mobile 2003 does support CSS (Cascade Style Sheets)! Jay McLain gives a fairly decent list of CSS attributes that are supported by Windows Mobile 2003.

That is great news for people authoring mobile web pages; unfortunately, I don't know of any decend PalmOS-based online browsers that would support CSS as well.

ultrasoul · 03-21-2005, 08:02 PM

well, thats g8 news 2 only those folks with the SE edition

Jeff Kirvin · 03-22-2005, 12:19 AM

Uh, Blazer 4.0 (ships with T5 and Treo 650) and Access Netfront (ships with Clies) both support CSS. Have for some time.

Colin Dunstan · 03-22-2005, 04:50 PM

Thanks Jeff. Note though that there was no Blazer 4.0 at the time I posted this thread. That said, can anyone tell me how Blazer 4 compares with PIE?

Jeff Kirvin · 03-22-2005, 05:48 PM

Blazer seems to do a better job fitting non-mobile sites to a small screen. Alas, neither supports tabbed browsing. As far as CSS is concerned, Blazer seems to support everything but fonts. You're still going to get the default Palm OS font no matter what is specified in the CSS.

Colin Dunstan · 03-22-2005, 05:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jeff Kirvin

As far as CSS is concerned, Blazer seems to support everything but fonts. You're still going to get the default Palm OS font no matter what is specified in the CSS.

Perhaps that was intentionally. Imagine a font with a 30px size definition. This wouldn't look so great on a PDA.

08-18-2004, 05:23 AM	#1
Colin Dunstan Is papyrophobic! Posts: 1,926 Karma: 1009999 Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: USA Device: Dell Axim	Windows Mobile 2003 supports CSS! Great news for all PocketPC owners. Pocket IE on Windows Mobile 2003 does support CSS (Cascade Style Sheets)! Jay McLain gives a fairly decent list of CSS attributes that are supported by Windows Mobile 2003. That is great news for people authoring mobile web pages; unfortunately, I don't know of any decend PalmOS-based online browsers that would support CSS as well.

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03-21-2005, 08:02 PM	#2
ultrasoul Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2005	well, thats g8 news 2 only those folks with the SE edition

03-22-2005, 12:19 AM	#3
Jeff Kirvin Member Posts: 20 Karma: 2271 Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Aurora, CO Device: Sprint Treo 650	Uh, Blazer 4.0 (ships with T5 and Treo 650) and Access Netfront (ships with Clies) both support CSS. Have for some time.

03-22-2005, 04:50 PM	#4
Colin Dunstan Is papyrophobic! Posts: 1,926 Karma: 1009999 Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: USA Device: Dell Axim	Thanks Jeff. Note though that there was no Blazer 4.0 at the time I posted this thread. That said, can anyone tell me how Blazer 4 compares with PIE?

03-22-2005, 05:48 PM	#5
Jeff Kirvin Member Posts: 20 Karma: 2271 Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Aurora, CO Device: Sprint Treo 650	Blazer seems to do a better job fitting non-mobile sites to a small screen. Alas, neither supports tabbed browsing. As far as CSS is concerned, Blazer seems to support everything but fonts. You're still going to get the default Palm OS font no matter what is specified in the CSS.

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