Chapter 25. Creating Mobile Web Applications

OBJECTIVES

  • Determine why you need the Microsoft Mobile Internet Toolkit (MMIT)

  • Learn what's in the MMIT

  • Create a sample page using several of the controls in the MMIT

You can assume that anyone visiting your Web site has a full-featured browser, with a keyboard, a color screen of at least 640480 pixels, and reasonably wide bandwidth, right? Wrong! Not every visitor will be using a personal computer—the number of connected smaller devices increases each month, and you can no longer make these standard assumptions. Users who visit your sites might be using Pocket PCs, cell phones, or other limited-capability browsers, and they will need special consideration.

In addition, by creating only an HTML version ...

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