[WEB4LIB] RE: [pdalibraries] Library pages on a PDA

[Thomas Dowling]

> Our campus is looking at Pocket PCs from Compaq.  The biggest advantage to
> them is that you do NOT have to design WAP enabled resources.  Pocket
> Internet Explorer will display webpages with images.  I will be
> experimenting, once we have wireless worked out for the pocket pc, how
well
> different databases and other library resources work via the PDA.  You may
> want to subscribe to the LibWireless discussion group as well as the ones
> you already sent your query to.  It is a yahoogroup I moderate.  Here is
how
> to subscribe:
>

I have been cheerfully using regular old HTML in Palm browsers for a couple
of years now.  No WAP necessary.  No surprise--pages designed for graceful
degradation, um, degrade gracefully.

Thomas Dowling
Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu