Re: Mobile question - again
The only thing the very talented Gary (thank you, thank you very much :rolleyes:) can come up with is another product. The new NetObjects Fusion 12 says it can create websites for mobile devices from the websites you create with the product. Though these devices and OS's are being developed so fast it would be hard to keep up with them all. Apple for example has just introduced a new mobile OS to be released in July for all of their i labeled devices.
I suspect that the Xara website was created in Dreamweaver with all the graphics designed in Designer. And that is how I use NetObjects Fusion 11 when I use it.
Re: Mobile question - again
Hi Gary,
Thanks for replying. And you ARE very talented. I wasn't being creepy!
This is such a problem. Interesting - I made some text in Fusion, copied the source code and stuck it into an HTML placeholder in XDP7, and it previewed wonderfully. I just couldn't see it in any browser when uploaded - which defies logic, really. I never know what is fake and what is real because our host's CGI server is so old and unreliable. I don't have the time to change host at the moment. Nor can I experiment any more.
What a problem.... I have Fusion 12, and it has nothing special for mobile pages. Not really. It just has teeny tiny templates as wizards for certain screen sizes. You can barely see them to work on. They seem a bit pointless, really, because you still have to design a separate mobile site. Its own, full-sized sites do a very good job without any adaptation. They resize automatically provided you design with text boxes and are light on anything fixed. Look at any of Kitty's sites in a Blackberry and you will see what I mean. They load like the wind and look the same on every screen.
We really need Xara to have a think about this. And I know this isn't the dear Xara section, but whilst writing can I say that a clever export facility - to mobile (even if it just welded all the graphics together into a background, and stuck text on top - I DUNNO!!!! LOL!!!) ...... Or if impossible, a new product - a cut-down version of the web designer program specifically for mobile sites "Xara Mobile Designer", would be fantastic.
Like they have nothing else to do... :)
If you discover anything please let me know. There might still be a miracle.
Thanks!
Ali
Re: Mobile question - again
There's no reason to deal with this since BlackBerry has recently switched to WebKit based browser.
We can not restrain our possibilities by trying to provide compatibility with countless outdated and rarely used browsers, especially those that do not follow web standards completely. Instead we are concentrating on providing as good compatibility as possible with the most widely used browsers and web standards (thus with all browsers that fully follow standards).
Current market share is as follows:
IE8 - 31%
Firefox - 22%
Chrome - 13%
IE6 - 10%
Safari - 7%
IE7 - 7%
IE9 - 4%
Opera - 2%
We support all of these browsers officially.
BlackBerry has less than 0.01% (i.e. less than 1/10000).
Statistics from: http://marketshare.hitslink.com/
Re: Mobile question - again
Looked at our competitor web sites, which are also smooshed on my Blackberry. Think I shall stop worrying. Thanks for the statistic, actually, because I had no idea there were so few blackberries around.
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