Comments on: Optimizing a Wordpress blog for the Wii http://wiiblog.frwee.org/2007/07/25/optimizing-a-wordpress-blog-for-the-wii/ Nintendo Wii news and views Sun, 18 May 2008 05:41:33 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: admin http://wiiblog.frwee.org/2007/07/25/optimizing-a-wordpress-blog-for-the-wii/comment-page-1/#comment-7 admin Sun, 29 Jul 2007 10:39:28 +0000 http://wiiblog.frwee.org/2007/07/25/optimizing-a-wordpress-blog-for-the-wii/#comment-7 Hey, thanks for the tip ! I guess setting the media type in an alternate stylesheet is the 'right way' to do it (tweaking pages via User-Agent detection is soooo 1996 :) ). Eventually, when I get time, I'll update the theme on this site to use media="tv" rather than the User-Agent detection. Cheers, Andrew Hey, thanks for the tip !

I guess setting the media type in an alternate stylesheet is the ‘right way’ to do it (tweaking pages via User-Agent detection is soooo 1996 :) ). Eventually, when I get time, I’ll update the theme on this site to use media=”tv” rather than the User-Agent detection.

Cheers,

Andrew

]]> By: David Storey http://wiiblog.frwee.org/2007/07/25/optimizing-a-wordpress-blog-for-the-wii/comment-page-1/#comment-6 David Storey Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:08:12 +0000 http://wiiblog.frwee.org/2007/07/25/optimizing-a-wordpress-blog-for-the-wii/#comment-6 Just a quick note to say that my blog linked above was written before the final release of the browser and a few things have changed. Handheld media type is not available on the single column view for example. One of the most useful new additions is that the TV media type is supported. i'd recommend just adding a TV stylesheet to your Wordpress template that styles the site as needed on a TV set such as larger fonts so that zoom is not needed, and shorter text width lengths (make sure when you zoom in that the text length is not wider than the screen width). On three column designs, you may want to push the third column below the content too. The advantage over detecting the user agent is that it'll benefit any future browser for TVs and set top boxes. Just a quick note to say that my blog linked above was written before the final release of the browser and a few things have changed. Handheld media type is not available on the single column view for example.

One of the most useful new additions is that the TV media type is supported. i’d recommend just adding a TV stylesheet to your Wordpress template that styles the site as needed on a TV set such as larger fonts so that zoom is not needed, and shorter text width lengths (make sure when you zoom in that the text length is not wider than the screen width). On three column designs, you may want to push the third column below the content too.

The advantage over detecting the user agent is that it’ll benefit any future browser for TVs and set top boxes.

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