Checklist of how blogs look on the T-Mobile Sidekick
- randomfoo.net - only renders the first column, overlapping boxes. boo. - awholelottanothing.org - renders the text, but in a 20px column - disastro.com - same - fibiger.org - same - waxy.org - whoa, messed up ~ torrez.org - topheavy on nav, but legible + massless - centered, but otherwise good ~ lyd - could be worse - glish - haha - scottandrew - ditto ~ surfmind.com - hey, could be worse + sylloge - stylin + plasticbag.org - looks good + megnut - looks good - anildash - no ~ peterme - topheavy nav, but otherwise fine - SvN - denied - aaronsw - sorry + zeldman - not bad ~ doc - topheavy on nav, some rendering errors, but legible ~ camworld - topheavy on the nav, but the rest looks good ~ xblog - ditto - w3future.com - did you think it would? + youngpup - I'm as surprised as you are - whatdoiknow.org - not good - web-graphics - nope - eleganthack - nope + kottke.org - centered, otherwise fine ~ eatonweb - funky top, rest ok + rc3.org - looks good + slashdot.org - actually not bad, /. lite has less nav to scroll through + k5 - not bad ~ mefi - sideblog sorta shows up, but main stories render fine - bud.com - topheavy on the nav, then 20 pixel column of text + boingboing.net - looks good
Sorta disappointing. Simpler blog designs fared better than more complex ones. Surprisingly, CSS styled pages do not linearize as they should. Positioning/styling is done somewhat haphazardly. For tabled designs, images are split up and resized somewhat arbitrarily. There’s no horizontal scrolling or zooming in the current revision of the browser.
It’s too bad that the preprocessor doesn’t go further and just strip all the css (or give that as an option), most of these sites would look better that way. Also too bad there’s no RSS aggregator for the hiptop. It might be more useful.