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I’ve actually never surfed the web on a cellphone. I’ve also never driven I-75 on a mountain bike. There’s a lesson there, I think…

Anyway, Robert Scoble stated that, yes, most blogs suck pretty hard on modern smartphones, and I’ll take him at his word. My old layout actually degraded a little better in this respect, as it rendered the center content (i.e. the actual entries) before it got to the left and right sidebars. I still plan to make the current layout do that one of these days, but at this point good intentions are in far better supply than the time to implement them. I’ve got a couple of workarounds that I actually rolled out day and date with my last redesign. First, I implemented a skipnav that doesn’t show in a standard desktop browser but does show up in more limited contexts such as text browsers (e.g. lynx, links, and w3m), screen readers, and, presumably, whatever people are running on that obnoxious thing with the Usher ringtone. I also have a separate Blosxom flavour (1993: one of Rael’s defaults, I believe) that is particularly undemanding, and usable, I expect, in everything from NCSA Mosaic onwards.

So, yeah, if you’re really into giving your mobile vendor $2 a megabyte or whatever ridiculous rate they charge, stuff ought to just work…

:: Dave Walker 11:11 (EST/EDT) [+]

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