[I-mobile-u] Couple of Questions

[David Ormsbee]

Hi Mark,

To your first question, there will be a call tomorrow, just to touch base.

Thank you.

Dave

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Justin Anderson <jander at mit.edu> wrote:

> Media queries are good when style is the only difference between desktop
> and mobile versions of a site, but there is a variety of reasons why we
> prefer server side detection at MIT, all of which boil down to minimizing
> bandwidth.
>
> We use jQuery all over MIT but not in our mobile sites. We use smaller
> image resources as well, which isn't easy with CSS when the images are
> content and not style. And then we also have a much more focused feature set
> on our mobile sites, so full desktop content would contain unnecessary data.
>
> Also there is information that cannot be discerned from CSS media queries,
> like whether or not a device supports certificates.
>
> That said, media queries are a nice feature and definitely have their uses.
>
> Justin Anderson
> Project Lead - Mobile Computing
> MIT IS&T
>
> On Aug 12, 2010, at 11:25 AM, Ahrens, Mark C wrote:
>
> First, will there be a call tomorrow?
>
> 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/
>
> --Mark
>
> Mark Ahrens
>
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