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Member since:2005-06-28
I explained what the additional code does. For example, if you hit Nokia Services and opera mini 2.0, you set an additional variable. Then, in your code, you say something like this:
if nokia services version 3.01 and opera mini 2.0, width 95% instead of 100%.
Stuff like that. You simply create special variables to identify some bugs of some versions/browsers and then you code the cHTML in a different way. I have some such code for nokia communicator, links etc.
If you really want to know about all these bugs these browsers have, you will have to experiment yourselves, get devices, emulators etc. I had to do all that.
Edited 2008-04-25 03:09 UTC
Member since:2007-04-03
Thats still not a good way to go about it, hence here is a quick example I slapped together which demonstrates how this can be done better.
http://pastebin.com/f16ca0de5
Member since:
2007-04-03
Please show us the code your talking about, because whilst the gesture of offering this work is a great thing, the programming itself is extremely amateurish and we could help you improve and at the end of the day everybody wins.
Edited 2008-04-25 03:04 UTC