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Does IE5.x mis-support handheld styles?

Sent by Aleksandar Vacić on 5 July 2004 21:09


On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 12:40:29 +0100
"Russ Baldwin" [EMAIL-REMOVED]> wrote:
> PocketPC 2003 picks up the handheld style sheet. Don't know how this works
> with IE4 as I don't have it. 

	Yes, you do. :) Version of IE in PocketPC 2003 is 4.01.
Kehm...while I'm onto this:

PocketPC 2002
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User-Agent: Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; MSIE 3.02; Windows CE; PPC; 240x320)
UA-pixels: 240x320
UA-color: color16
UA-OS: Windows CE (POCKET PC) - Version 3.0

PocketPC 2003
--------------------
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows CE; PPC; 240x320)
UA-pixels: 240x320
UA-color: color16
UA-OS: Windows CE (Pocket PC) - Version 4.20
UA-CPU: i486

Windows CE .NET 2003
--------------------
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows CE)

> *However the Palm pda simulator I have unfortunately imports the screen CSS
> and not the handheld version. I don't know if this is because of the
> simulator, that the Palm doesn't understand handheld CSS, or that something
> else is wrong? If anybody out there knows I'd love to hear from you.

	That is the common thing with all PDA and phone browsers. They
almost always import screen styles, but some also import handheld. For
the glimpse of the mess, take a look at
http://www.htmldog.com/ptg/archives/000055.php

> There is a test site using the above CSS imports: 
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/russell.baldwin/ebooks3/

	Nice page. I tried it in IE5, IE6, NN7.1, FF 0.9, Camino 0.9,
Safari 1.2, Opera 6.03 and IE5.2/Mac and it displays the screen style fine
(meaning it does not load handheld style incorrectly. Desktop IE 4.72
also loaded screen style, but not handheld style.
	On PocketPC 2003 it loaded both styles, and correctly displayed
the handheld style overrides. :)

-- 
Aleksandar Vacic
http://www.aplus.co.yu/


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