Drupal and PDA/Cell Phone

By phuile on 24 Aug 2005 at 04:30 UTC

Can Drupal produce sites that can be displayed on different types of media? For example, PDAs or cell phones?

If so, do I need to develop more than one *site*, perhaps using different themes?

Petre

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some

redpineseed commented 24 August 2005 at 04:47

some smart PDA/Cell Phones can display xhtml already. there should be no problem.

however, drupal does not produce wap cards for WAP based PDA or cell phones.

Does it pass this test?

phuile commented 24 August 2005 at 05:50

If a criteria of a website specs is for the site to meet indsutry standards and to be able to be displayed on different types of media, will it pass the test? That is, will a Drupal site satisfy the customer?

This seems to be what most people are asking for right now, and I just want to know if this is requested, I will need to develop another site area just for one or two *media types*!

Thanks,
Petre

the answer is yes

sepeck commented 24 August 2005 at 06:47

it can, depending on the theme. I don;t think any of the current contributed themes have such a style sheet built in alread. Forums has had some occasional discussion on it that may have more relavant details.

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yes and no

redpineseed commented 24 August 2005 at 07:36

yes, the content will be rendered properly since drupal formats in xhtml. most smart devices PDA/Cell Phones implement xhtml now, and some with opera browser pre-installed.

no, the size of all smart devices are way to small compared to the computer monitor. you will need a new "theme" to format the content to fit the PDA/Cell Phones screem size.

it is more flexible to use xhtml than wap.

fwiw

Harry Slaughter

Omaha NE USA

commented 24 August 2005 at 18:43

i was recently browsing drupaldocs from my pda using the blazer browser.

i was very pleasantly surprised. it was one of the few websites that actually renders nicely on my tiny screen. menus and everything were very nicely located, content was neatly formatted.

i don't think it would be much (if any) work to build a site that renders properly on handhelds with modern browsers.

as long as you don't build one of these nightmarishly ugly sites (see go.com, newslinx.com) that barely render in desktop browsers, i wouldn't think it would be an issue.

worst case, you could probably develop (or find) a drupal theme optimized for handhelds and write a bit of code that sets that theme for selected browsers or OSs.

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