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Cool. It was a good overview... My experiences are a little better, but everyone to his/her own.

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Nice! My key takeaway from the review:

One other observation: In the age of the iPhone, Web designers need to start optimizing for smartphones and tablets, taking into account how often people will be viewing their sites on smaller and smaller screens
Bingo.
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The top photo of the two is VERY deceiving - making the Sony look just as small as the N810!

Reality Check:
206mm vs 144mm widths!
 
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But I also found this on youtube!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSMKO...eature=related
 
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But I also found this on youtube!
The APC power supply looks cool
http://www.apcc.com/resource/include...B10&tab=models
 
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Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
Nice! My key takeaway from the review:

One other observation: In the age of the iPhone, Web designers need to start optimizing for smartphones and tablets, taking into account how often people will be viewing their sites on smaller and smaller screens
Bingo.
Agreed. This is probably the biggest issue that I have with the IT now; sites just don't resize well for it; and those that do are few in number.
 
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ARJ, I'm discovering just how difficult it can be to accomplish the resizing. I am using the site www.jablet.net as a testbed and example for what's possible. The goal is to avoid the ITs having to use javascript, and utilizing CSS and PHP as much as possible. The problems aren't with the tablets-- they render the CSS very well! Nope, the issues are with anyone running Internet Explorer on a PC and viewing the site: IE, even version 7, is allergic to strict and full CSS.

BUT-- tablet-friendly sites should still be a goal, IMO. The problems I've encountered have workarounds that just require a little education and effort. I would expect seasoned website designers to handle that. Hopefully I'll have the jablet site updated soon to show what's possible... most of the work I've done has not yet been incorporated.
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maybe it's time to piss the Windows users, if the site is a community effort and not a company site I wouldn't care more then telling them to use a real browser.
 
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Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
ARJ, I'm discovering just how difficult it can be to accomplish the resizing. I am using the site www.jablet.net as a testbed and example for what's possible. The goal is to avoid the ITs having to use javascript, and utilizing CSS and PHP as much as possible. The problems aren't with the tablets-- they render the CSS very well! Nope, the issues are with anyone running Internet Explorer on a PC and viewing the site: IE, even version 7, is allergic to strict and full CSS.
Welcome to the hell that is web development, all thanks to Microsoft.

Simple client checks can be useful for throwing one page at IE and another at real browsers.
 
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