[WEB4LIB] Online PDA Test?

[Thomas Dowling]

Linda Schwartz wrote:

>Is there a site online where I can test how a webpage/application will
>look on a PDA ?
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There are various emulator programs you can load on a PC to run Palm OS 
or Pocket PC applications.  See for example 
<http://www.palmos.com/dev/tools/simulator/>.

In my experience, there is much more variation in PDA web browsers than 
there currently is in desktop browsers.  The Netfront browser that comes 
with a Sony Clie, for example, has a pretty sophisticated little control 
that lets you toggle among several viewing modes to get the best fit on 
a 320x320 pixel screen.  PDA screen resolutions also vary more widely 
than desktops these days (on a percentage basis), so you can't look at 
any one screen and say "That's how it looks on a PDA."


-- 
Thomas Dowling
tdowling at ohiolink.edu