Pay Attention to Small Screens
Posted on December 4, 2007 by Chris
Historically when you build a web site you had a choice to either design a specific, stripped down version for mobile devices or ignore them completely (the choice most sites make). After all, even after years of penetration, devices running Windows CE serve up less than 0.06% of all web pages according to HitsLink. But there is another interesting statistic buried in their report as highlighted by the Wall Street Journal today. iPhones are at 0.09% and that is for only a little over a million devices that have been around for a few months.
So the lesson learned from all these numbers? Design your site for devices with small screens running fully functional browsers and ignore everything else. Apple just forced handset manufacturers to give the public what it wants. So much for .mobi.
If you’ve got an iPhone and haven’t seen Facebook’s take on how to scale your site down for a small screen, make sure to check it out. They’ve done a good job.
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