Comments on: The G1: First Impressions

By: A Month with the G1 | K-Squared Ramblings

A Month with the G1 | K-Squared Ramblings — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:00:54 +0000

[...] been a little over a month since I upgraded to a T-Mobile G1. Overall I’ve been very happy with it. The Internet-related features are great, I’ve [...]

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5 Things I’ve Learned About Twitter | K-Squared Ramblings — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:15:49 +0000

[...] with the G1, with its full keyboard and web access, it’s easier to just run Twidroid than to mess around [...]

By: Kelson

Kelson — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:46:39 +0000

The syncing I was doing via USB was just transferring images. I had one on my PC that I wanted to use as my wallpaper on the phone.

That said, most stuff is done online. Contacts are synced with Gmail, for instance, but stored locally so you can still get at them if you’ve got a weak signal. Calendar, also. Of course the apps run locally, but have the ability to pull & push data to/from the cloud.

By: West

West — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:22:13 +0000

Grr. Can’t beLIEVE I missed this bit of techery while I was away.

Congrats, though.

Btw, I’m surprised there’s anything to sync with a computer. I thought the G1 lacked PIM apps and worked with “the cloud.”

By: Kelson

Kelson — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:59:42 +0000

I've checked it against this media query page, and the G1 does handle media queries for viewport & screen size. I figured it would be comparable to the iPhone, given that they're both WebKit, but I couldn't remember when WebKit added support. For the record, the current UA is:

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 1.0; en-us; dream) AppleWebKit/525.10+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Mobile Safari/523.12.2

Now to figure out the best way to nest the conditions...

The general problem is that “handheld” stylesheets where they exist are often going to be extreme, or downright untested

Good point. It occurs to me that even though I've made handheld stylesheets for various sites, it's been quite a while since I tested them.

By: brion

brion — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:09:24 +0000

The iPhone browser ignores ‘handheld’ stylesheets, but allows you to specify a custom stylesheet through CSS3 media queries on the screen size. We don’t currently use one of those for Wikipedia because there’s no way in the browser to turn it *off* and switch to the regular styles, and right now we’re note quite confident enough of our mobile stylesheet.

The general problem is that “handheld” stylesheets where they exist are often going to be extreme, or downright untested…

I have the impression the Android browser allows the same or similar CSS3 media queries, but I’m not 100% sure.