Comment Hey! We're talking about phones and PDA's (Score 1) 38
Why would we need CSS for wireless devices?
The great part about WAP as it is nonw, is that it is 100% information, with no bullshit. Just like the 'normal web' used to be.
Text-only and on some pages a simple image.
Why? Because:
1) You have a very small screen
2) There isn't much bandwidth (9600bps is default)
With WAP, there are no blinking items, there is no irritating sound.
Why do many peoply hate Flash-websites? Because they're annoying; because they load very slowly; because many browser-functions aren't possible to be used with Flash.
On a wireless device, why should we want a background color? Or even a background image?
Try having a 2-bit background image (black/white), and use one of those colors as the text color. Unreadable.
Mobile phones with color screens are unaffordable for most people. And when you have a handheld pc, you don't need WAP because you can have real html.
Borders are nice. I see one surrounding this text box, and I see one surrounding buttons; windows; almost every object on my screen has a border.
But I have a 15" monitor, with many objects on it. On my 1" phone-screen, I have one border (the screen border itself) and that is more than enough.
The funniest item is 'Cursor'.
Phones do not have a cursor and pda's and handheld pc's use a stylus, so no cursor either.
Text-Shadow. Nice. But why? Aren't b, i, u, big and strong enough markup?
I seriously doubt if CSS is needed for WAP.
Many people forget that the larger devices can handle html.
For those who still don't get my point: A nokia 7110 WAP Phone (the most used WAP phone) has 96-pixels wide screen. - http://www.wapsilon.com/ - Web-based WAP Browser
The great part about WAP as it is nonw, is that it is 100% information, with no bullshit. Just like the 'normal web' used to be.
Text-only and on some pages a simple image.
Why? Because:
1) You have a very small screen
2) There isn't much bandwidth (9600bps is default)
With WAP, there are no blinking items, there is no irritating sound.
Why do many peoply hate Flash-websites? Because they're annoying; because they load very slowly; because many browser-functions aren't possible to be used with Flash.
On a wireless device, why should we want a background color? Or even a background image?
Try having a 2-bit background image (black/white), and use one of those colors as the text color. Unreadable.
Mobile phones with color screens are unaffordable for most people. And when you have a handheld pc, you don't need WAP because you can have real html.
Borders are nice. I see one surrounding this text box, and I see one surrounding buttons; windows; almost every object on my screen has a border.
But I have a 15" monitor, with many objects on it. On my 1" phone-screen, I have one border (the screen border itself) and that is more than enough.
The funniest item is 'Cursor'.
Phones do not have a cursor and pda's and handheld pc's use a stylus, so no cursor either.
Text-Shadow. Nice. But why? Aren't b, i, u, big and strong enough markup?
I seriously doubt if CSS is needed for WAP.
Many people forget that the larger devices can handle html.
For those who still don't get my point: A nokia 7110 WAP Phone (the most used WAP phone) has 96-pixels wide screen. - http://www.wapsilon.com/ - Web-based WAP Browser
