09/06/2008
Mobile view of the internet
This might be old news to most people but I didn’t know it…
You can use a special google url to view websites like mobiles phones do. Try this for example:
http://google.com/gwt/n?u=http://void.gr/kargig/blog/.
It’s quite useful when you want to see how your site looks like from a mobile phone or when you want to use a browser from a terminal like lynx or links (I know you don’t use these browsers but sometimes I do…)
To begin browsing in “mobile view” just go to http://www.google.com/gwt/n and all links you click afterwards will be parsed through the proxy.
And another link I liked was this: http://www.google.com/xhtml. Mobile view of google’s search.
Filed by kargig at 00:16 under Internet,Linux
3 Comments | 8,499 views
A page through a mobile device doesn’t look that bad!
All mobile browsers (IE7, Opera, Nokia S60 Browser) are capable of drawing the page in the exact same way as your desktop browser does. You can then zoom to the specific part you want. They can also do “one-column-all”, but they still maintain the original design. 🙂
http://streamkid.net/~streamkid/images/Screenshot0001.jpg
http://streamkid.net/~streamkid/images/Screenshot0002.jpg
You are probably right about new mobile browsers, but still google calls this “mobile” view. It’s probably better said as a lighter, reduced bandwidth version of the sites.
Anyway, I find it more useful with console browsers than mobile phones 😛 I don’t use my phone’s browser anyway…
Very useful. Thank you 🙂