Over at LGG Media, we’ve started sharing some of the stuff we do in a series of Technical Notes (OK, there’s only one right now, but it’ll be a series, honest!). We’re releasing them as PDFs because… wait for it… yes, I frigging hate formatting source code in HTML even with a good plugin.
In the first note, we go over a new technique we’ve developed with Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC framework to easily make WAP, iPhone optimized and other versions of a web page without duplicating any code or otherwise creating a maintenance nightmare.
This is my first “technical article” and I’m sure there are a lot of other ways to exploit this technique, so comments are more than welcome – let me know what you think! You can see the note (and all future ones) here.
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Same idea could apply to other platforms too. With J2EE you could use Struts/Tiles to do basically the same thing. Good deal.
BTW, if you are diving into delivering for mobile devices – WURFL I think has a .NET port (amongst other platforms) for their abstraction lib that tries to figure out device sizes/capabilities based on a db of user agents.
Yeah, I imagine it applies to most MVC systems out there, we’re just in love with the MS one at the moment
Huge fans of WURFL over here, looking forward to integrating the DB into a capabilities library real real soon, thanks for linking it in for other readers!