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Hi,

On my smartphone, when i type any URL like http://www.hotmail.com, i could see the site as i could see it on my laptop.

That gives me a feeing that any web page can be rendered seamlessly on Mobile devices as well.

I was wondering about Browser rendering for PC / Desktop and mobile devices.

Also some web sites have their wap and http versions.

Is there any change in Mobile browser rendering pattern or they can simply render http pages that we created for PC browsers.

Any clarification would be deeply appreciated.

Thanx in advance.

San
- Moved by Jesse Jiang Thursday, March 15, 2012 2:08 AM (From:Windows Mobile Development)
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 9:01 AM

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Hi,

You can try this query in http://forums.asp.net

Just sharing my knowledge, Now a days all the mobile browsers work with http versions and will not give any kind of problems. But there are some limitations in CSS, Markup, Javascript support. Based on the limitations, we have to design the pages separately for desktop and Mobile browsers.

-Malleswar
- Proposed as answer by Jesse Jiang Thursday, March 15, 2012 2:08 AM
- Marked as answer by Sanjay Sutar Wednesday, April 4, 2012 7:45 AM
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 11:28 AM
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Mobile browsers have different capabilities (starting from the display size), so web sites pages could be rendered differently.
It's important that web developers provide mobile versions of their web site, so that the user experience will not be negatively affected.
You could take a look at the following links

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/iemobile/archive/2010/12/08/targeting-mobile-optimized-css-at-windows-phone-7.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/hh288079.aspx
http://www.codeproject.com/search.aspx?q=mobile+browser&sbo=kw
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178619.aspx

Bye.
Luigi Bruno - Microsoft Community Contributor 2011 Award
- Marked as answer by Sanjay Sutar Wednesday, April 4, 2012 7:45 AM
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 11:33 AM

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Hi,

You can try this query in http://forums.asp.net

Just sharing my knowledge, Now a days all the mobile browsers work with http versions and will not give any kind of problems. But there are some limitations in CSS, Markup, Javascript support. Based on the limitations, we have to design the pages separately for desktop and Mobile browsers.

-Malleswar
- Proposed as answer by Jesse Jiang Thursday, March 15, 2012 2:08 AM
- Marked as answer by Sanjay Sutar Wednesday, April 4, 2012 7:45 AM
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 11:28 AM
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Mobile browsers have different capabilities (starting from the display size), so web sites pages could be rendered differently.
It's important that web developers provide mobile versions of their web site, so that the user experience will not be negatively affected.
You could take a look at the following links

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/iemobile/archive/2010/12/08/targeting-mobile-optimized-css-at-windows-phone-7.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/hh288079.aspx
http://www.codeproject.com/search.aspx?q=mobile+browser&sbo=kw
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178619.aspx

Bye.
Luigi Bruno - Microsoft Community Contributor 2011 Award
- Marked as answer by Sanjay Sutar Wednesday, April 4, 2012 7:45 AM
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 11:33 AM