mobile-website

I'm building a mobile version of a website, and in this specific case it would look perfect in horizontal layout. Is there a way to force this layout no matter user setting are? Answer with some universal way is appreciated, but also if you know how to achieve this on any specific platform (iPhone, android..) so maybe we can collect a decent set of rules to target majority of mobile users. Michael Mullany There is a hack that will accomplish this, but I seriously advise against using it - your design should adapt to whether someone is in portrait or landscape mode. Step 1: Query the window

We've got an alternate version of out website ready for mobile devices. The content we serve is different and it works well. What is the best way to detect which version to serve. We don't have a list of all mobile devices so to use the user-agent header is tricky as we may miss something. We thought about useing device screen width - but what happens if the mobile device doesnt support javascript. How do we sniff this ? You could use a device description database (such as WURFL ) which will recognise the client device from the request headers. You can then query that database to decide if the

This is a hard one to articulate and I am new to mobile web development so please bear with me: On my webpage, I have 3 Nested dropdown lists (Area, Town, Street). Nested as in, each dropdown's items are modified when the selection in the dropdown above it changes. e.g selecting an Area changes the Town and Street lists and selecting a Town changes the Street list. I use XMLHTTPRequests in the onchange() javascript event of the dropdowns to fetch and populate the other downdowns. This works fine on Android and Desktop browsers. On Mobile Safari , when a drowdown is touched, a list is shown

The iPhone supports geolocation in mobile Safari via the following call: navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition( function(pos){ var lat = pos.coords.latitude; var long = pos.coords.longitude; }, function(){ /* Handler if location could not be found */ } ); I'd like to build a good list of devices that have one of the following: support this feature out of the box , or support this feature with an upgrade, or support geolocation with equivalent fidelity of data with some other snippet of Javascript. I'm only familiar with my own device, so this is my list so far: Out of the box: iPhone 3GS