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Re: The prefered way to handle mobile apps?

From "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.php
Subject Re: The prefered way to handle mobile apps?
Date 2011-07-28 10:21 -0500
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On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:23:29 +0200, Michael Fesser wrote:

> A reason why browser sniffing is ugly, inefficient and unreliable.
>
> Unfortunately in many cases it's most likely still the only way,
> because many browser still don't support the better alternatives, like
> handheld CSS and the new media queries in CSS 3.

There is always the option of composing a page to render well on any
sanely sized screen, and there's development tools to aid in this, but
that's well outside the scope of PHP.

-- 
This was, apparently, beyond her ken.  So far beyond her ken that she 
was well into barbie territory.
              -- J. D. Baldwin

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The prefered way to handle mobile apps? Simon <bad@example.com> - 2011-07-28 09:51 +0200
  Re: The prefered way to handle mobile apps? "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2011-07-28 07:39 -0500
    Re: The prefered way to handle mobile apps? Michael Fesser <netizen@gmx.de> - 2011-07-28 15:23 +0200
      Re: The prefered way to handle mobile apps? "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2011-07-28 10:21 -0500
    Re: The prefered way to handle mobile apps? legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2011-07-28 21:31 +0000
      Re: The prefered way to handle mobile apps? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-07-28 19:53 -0400
    Re: The prefered way to handle mobile apps? Simon <bad@example.com> - 2011-07-29 08:33 +0200
      Re: The prefered way to handle mobile apps? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-07-29 08:03 -0400
      Re: The prefered way to handle mobile apps? "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2011-07-29 08:46 -0500
  Re: The prefered way to handle mobile apps? Norman Peelman <npeelman@cfl.rr.com> - 2011-07-28 18:37 -0400

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