[Slight OT] TDPL in Russia

[Walter Bright]

Michel Fortin wrote:
> On 2010-09-02 22:04:39 -0400, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> 
> said:
> 
>> Michel Fortin wrote:
>>> Basically, you wanted to do what I did with my website. What was the 
>>> problem exactly? Creating a style sheet that displays the contents 
>>> well when read linearly? Or was it about how to trigger this 
>>> particular style sheet for iPhone and iPods? The later's quite 
>>> simple, just use this media attribute:
>>>
>>>     media="handheld, only screen and (max-device-width: 480px)"
>>>
>>> The "handheld, " part isn't really relevant for iOS devices, but 
>>> it'll trigger the stylesheet with Opera-based handheld browsers.
>>
>> The problem was that I googled it and every hit used a radically 
>> different method and they'd refer to it as "seems" to work. I'm not 
>> comfortable using such hacks. I'd like one that officially works and 
>> is standards compliant.
> 
> Call it a hack if you want, but this is the most standard-compliant 
> solution as it is based on the CSS3 Media Queries specification:
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/>
> 
> It'll be officially standard-compliant once the specification becomes a 
> W3C recommendation (it's currently a candidate recommendation). 
> Currently, WebKit (Safari, Chrome), Gecko (Firefox) and Opera all 
> support media queries.
> <https://developer.mozilla.org/en/css/media_queries>
> <http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/presto25/css/mediaqueries/>
> 
> IE 9 will support media queries too when it ships (I believe it's in 
> beta currently) so it'll probably work with Windows Phone 7 too (when it 
> becomes available). Here's a showcase they've made:
> <http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/HTML5/85CSS3_MediaQueries/Default.html>
> 
> So good luck finding something more standard-compliant.
> 

This is good information. Thanks!