Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming, Third Edition

Multiple Platforms

The mainframe and PC are not the only computing devices used today. On handheld palm devices that display Web content on small monochrome screens; content-limited WebTV screens; control devices wired to the Web in the home such as security cameras and control panels; and cell phones that display 8-line Web pages, Web content is being routed to many devices other than the typical color PC screen.

What is a company to do when it wants to enable its Web pages for PC users and for every other possible device that can display Web content? If the company produces an HTML-based Web page that is formatted for PCs, the company will have to implement different HTML code to format the page for a cell phone. The company then will have ...