Why sites are wireless-enemies

PDA sites

[kozuch82]

Hi,

this is teasing me since the birth of the mobile browsers - I could count the nicely PDA/mobile optimized sites with my ONE hand fingers. The question is, why do webmasters of the mainstream media and corporate sites sh*t on PDA/mobile users?

A nicely pda optimized site is e.g. osnews.com for me - with an auto browser recognition...

But others - cra*, cra* and cra*!

[oxbaker]

i would figure its the wireless carriers and hardware makers fault. Up to recently wifi with PDA's has been restricted to the office or home, with most people who have iPAQS and PDA's having home or office computers, the website makers dont think they need to optimize sites for PDA access. It remains a custom solution for specific business operations. However i agree with you. Perhaps in new RAD packages (like VS.NET) they will build into creation of sites the optimization you are so badly looking for.

mcm

[Brett_Tabke]

Yep - I agree. It is tough on us, but there are more coming.

Personally - the yahoo mobile site is fantastic. Webmasterworlds is pretty good too ;-)

> with an auto browser recognition.

which *never* works unless you are using pocketie. (I use netfront and opera)...