[I-mobile-u] Couple of Questions

[Dave Olsen]

On media queries I've always been reluctant to go that route from a
technical perspective. There have been a few blog posts over the last
few days related to some of the downsides of media queries:

http://www.cloudfour.com/css-media-query-for-mobile-is-fools-gold/
http://www.cloudfour.com/more-on-css-media-queries-for-mobile/
http://jeffcroft.com/blog/2010/aug/06/responsive-web-design-and-mobile-context/

That's not to say they're bad (and I think Jason's follow-up post
covers their use). Just that their may be other things to keep in mind
when thinking about using them. We built-in the MIT style templating
set-up into our CMS so we haven't had much opportunity to see if media
queries would be useful and if my technical concerns could be
addressed.

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Ahrens, Mark C <mark-ahrens at uiowa.edu> wrote:
> First, will there be a call tomorrow?
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> Second, has anyone experimented with using media queries to display a mobile
> site instead of some sort of device detection?  In my testing, it seems
> useful when you want a single URL with the same content on both desktop and
> mobile browsers, but I am curious if anyone else has any experience with it.
> Here is a page with an example of the media queries:
> http://css-tricks.com/css-media-queries/
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> --Mark
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> Mark Ahrens
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