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Has anyone come up with a good template to use for PDA browsing? I’m writing one but I’m just not that great at style design. Figured surely someone’s got one out there already.

Anyone?

Nevermind, I’ve got mine complete.

If anyone’s interested I’ve zipped the templates. You can add the three templates to any group and they’ll work. I used the archive from vb
http://www.hillaryproject.com/?/sg_distro/pda

I attached the file

Incase you’re wondering what i mean by PDA browsing, here’s a couple screen caps of my PDA:
http://www.hillaryproject.com/stuff/pda.gif

That’s excellent, JT.  Thanks for that. 

Now I just have to get a PDA to test it.

haha.

Well i’ll tell you. The first thing I thought of was to use type=“handheld” or whatever and specify a different CSS, but the problem is to really fit in a pda the whole page can’t be loaded.

I’m a little surprised more people aren’t interested in them. Or maybe they just made their own. Not much sense putting it in the wiki since nobody’s responding.

I made the templates dynamic so I don’t think there should be any changes to be made. Originally i had hard coded my url at the bottom and some other places but I removed that.

Should be real simple. Create the 3 templates, paste the content then check it out.

Nice work, looks great ... thanks for sharing. May come handy at some time.

JT, can you comment on how you switch between the “full-blown” and the stripped-down pda version of the site? Are you using some automated discovery or has the user to select the pda version manually? (I haven’t visited your site with a pda, so bear with me if I’m asking something obvious.)

-Markus

When you posted it was still manual, but I just added some javascript to redirect it. unfortunately it only handles windows mobile. but you could also use the following in your .htaccess file if your host allows mod_rewrite.

here’s the link to the javascript i put in that worked
http://www.hillaryproject.com/stuff/ce.htm

#browser redirects For PDA Based Browsers
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} “Windows CE” [NC,OR] #Windows CE and Pocket PC
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} “NetFront” [NC,OR] #PalmSource WebBrowser 2.0
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} “Palm OS” [NC,OR] #Eudora Web Browser for Palm
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} “Blazer” [NC,OR] #Handspring Blazer Browser
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} “Elaine” [NC,OR] #RIM Devices
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} “^WAP.*$” [NC,OR] #WAP Browsers
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} “Plucker” [NC,OR] #Plucker Offline download client
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} “AvantGo” [NC] #AvantGo Service
RewriteRule ^index\.php <a href="http://www.yourdomain.net/pda.php">http://www.yourdomain.net/pda.php</a> [L,R]

Of course the above statement assumes your host is allowing mod_rewrite

Here’s a better list of handheld O/S.

http://www.zytrax.com/tech/web/mobile_ids.html

Hey thanks for sharing this info, and your work 😉

I pretty much want to direct all mobile traffic, but still working out the details. This will help allot!

Question: JT (or anyone), what’s up with the “/?/” in the URL you use for the PDA pages?

I just use it instead of index.php?