Mowser Wordpress Plugin
Hey, turns out I am among the first 100 people to to mobilize my website through Mowser!
Mowser is a content adaptation engine/service for mobile devices that works kind of like the Small Screen Rendering used in the Opera Mini mobile browser. The Wordpress plugin detects if a mobile device browses my website and makes Mowser pre-process the pages before sending them to the device. I know there are consulting firms out there that will help you achieve the same thing in return of a handsome sum of money, but Mowser is free.
What this means that instead of looking like this in the S60 browser on my N95:
My blog looks like this:
I admit the result is not exactly a work of art, but note that I have performed zero customization - I think a small thing like adding a handheld stylesheet would go a long way in making the site even more browsable on a small screen.
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February 20th, 2008 at 19:00
Hey Christopher, thanks for the support!
I’ve put up a few example stylesheets for different Wordpress themes:
http://pub.mowser.com/wiki/Main/WordPressPlugin
Trying to come up with some pleasing designs. They’re a pretty decent place to start if you want to make your own styles.
- Mike