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I guess it is not an option to install Opera on that phone?

I truly am new to this, and honestly don’t know.  I don’t see my device listed on this page.

That page does not appear to be always up to date. E.g. my Sony Ericsson C905 is not listed either but Opera Mini works fine. Maybe go to operamini.com on your phone and see what it says?

anonymous. Heh. I figured it would take the name via OpenID somehow...

I went to operamini.com, but the browser on the phone did such a poor job of rendering the page (the dropdown menus on the top are permanently dropped down, and obscure the content of the page) that the page was useless to me.

As to OpenID: I do try to get the “sreg” nickname and fullname info and have tested it with my setup, but for some reason it didn’t get your info.

As an update: the problem appears to be related to the “footer” that I relocate to be a dropdown menu.  It doesn’t relocate with this web browser (which is fine with me), but does cause the screen width to change (which is what I want to avoid).

Try media queries again.  Your phone’s built-in browser doesn’t support them, but Opera Mini does.

I have yet to figure out how to install Opera Mini, or even verify that Opera Mini is supported at all on the device that I have.

Again, what I see if I go to the Opera Mini page is that the Products... Support... Company... and Business #nav dropdown menus are all (simultaneously) dropped down — just the backgrounds though (rectangles with horizontal lines, no text), with the net effect being that the page itself is obscured.

Try [link]

That should bypass the dropdown cruft.

While visible, that’s a maze of twisty passages, all alike.

The page itself is an ad, which leads to [link].

That page lists three options.  Go to the page that I can’t read.  Send myself an SMS message (result: URL of the same page), or select my device from a list (which doesn’t list my device).

Try to download Opera Mini via these direct links:

[link]
[link]

I guess I’m hopeless, as I don’t know what to do with those links.

I click on them from within the browser on my phone and see some evidence that they are being downloaded (in the top center I see an icon that looks like a cell phone, followed by an icon containing two horizontal arrows pointing in different directions, and finally followed by an icon that looks vaguely like a globe).

Then... nothing, in each case.

I clearly can download those files to my PC, but I wouldn’t know how to install such files onto my phone.

Meanwhile, I’m using this stylesheet.  I’m disappointed that, like IE, I can’t apply css rules to elements introduced in html5.

Can you try the styling dependent on the User-Agent? Just throw the mobile browsers a completely different css. Infact you don’t even need to write code, just rewrite the URL if User-agent is a mobile agent.

Sachin: that’s essentially what I am doing at the moment:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Teleca.*\ 320X
RewriteRule blog.\.css$ http://intertwingly.net/css/lgenv3.css

I simply would have preferred an approach which put this in the CSS itself.

Your phone is, as far as I can determine a BREW phone, and doesn’t support J2ME.  Now, having said that, I know we deliver on BREW, but I’m not at all sure whether your operator supports installation of third-party applications.

If you want a solution that works in your phone’s native browser, the referenced UAProf RDF XML file is an acceptable way to do content negotiation. It tells you right in the prf:ScreenSize element what resolution it supports. I have to agree with the others that Opera Mini is an excellent alternative, though.

It tells you right in the prf:ScreenSize element what resolution it supports

I’m skeptical.

Reported there: 320x199

Reported on lge.com: 320x240

Lowell McAdam:  Bravo. Depending on what’s offered, I sometime next year, I’ll seriously consider an out-of-cycle (i.e., non-subsidized) upgrade.... [more]

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