Research - HTML for mobile devices.

Although I have worked with HTML and CSS I have yet to work with HTML on a mobile device. I'm not sure if there are any differences between web on a mobile device than on a normal website other than the fact that the resolution on a mobile device is of course much smaller and as 3G is not as fast as our standard broadband it means the page has to be absolutely minimal in size.

Styling for mobile devices -

"One problem is that hand-held devices don’t always look for the handheld style sheet. According to Ben Henick, the handheld media type is “poorly supported by all but the very recently marketed devices, as of 2009.” From what I gather, most web sites try to infer the browser type on the server side and generate different HTML for mobile devices using PHP etc. Apparently static HTML markup will have its limitations at this point in time.

The iPhone doesn’t consider itself a hand-held device as far as CSS is concerned. Fair enough: perhaps the handheld designation is more for tiny screens like more traditional cell phones. But it’s not a desktop either."

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/06/04/writing-html-for-mobile-devices/

It seems that there are other points to note about HTML on a mobile device. Requirements from mobile access include:

- Hardware restrictions

- Narrow Bandwidth Networking

- Accessibility Requirements