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• dreamingmonkey
  
  

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  Posted: May 30, 2010 - 11:31 AM

  When making a site mobile friendly, what is generally the preferred method among this community? As I see it there are a couple options:
  
  1. Create a mobile friendly theme, detect the browser, and load it if appropriate.
  
  2. Create a theme that degrades nicely on mobile devices.
  
  3. Create a subdomain with the mobile content (easier for me than most probably since I have a multisites-type system in place).
  
  I think #1 is my preferred choice because it allows you to put together module template overrides, ensuring that all content across the site is also mobile-friendly. But before I start on a project that I'm taking up next week, I wanted some feedback on how everyone else thinks this sort of thing should be handled.
  
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• jaenosjelantru
  
  

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  Posted: May 30, 2010 - 11:54 AM

  Choice #1; create a mobile theme and make it the deafult for mobile devices.
  
  P.S. Always give users the option of visiting the full site in the footer. I have an iPad and an iPhone and I would always rather view a site in full browser mode than a theme designed for mobiles. The problem is blackberry's and other (sub-par) devices like them that can't handle a full browser view should default to a mobile theme.

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• dks
  
  

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  Posted: May 31, 2010 - 03:26 PM

  I've been thinking about this recently. is there a certain screen size that's considered standard for mobile?

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• TakeIT2
  
  

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  Posted: May 31, 2010 - 05:57 PM

  I have been looking at this topic as well - I started at google search and wikipedia - I think these three links get a good start on what to think about for a mobile theme -
  Basic mobile markup history - http://en.wikipedia.…ess_Markup_Language
  Mobile Browsers Considerations - http://en.wikipedia.…g/wiki/Microbrowser
  Actual XHTML DTD for Mobile Devices - http://en.wikipedia.…HTML_Mobile_Profile
  And This Complexity - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurfl
  
  I would choose the XHTML method. The next part to think about is which mobile devices are you actually thinking about, because then you have to think about actual display size for your style sheets, Because the rest of the design is the same for most themes then.
  
  If you are thinking about how to design output for an iPhone/iPad - this smashing magazine article has a nice breakdown that can apply to main design - http://www.smashingm…ad-getting-started/
  
  I am gonna try to make one - but I'll have to go more toward android as there is only a G1 in the house for me to test with.
  
  
  
  edited by: TakeIT2, datetimebrief

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