I'm wondering about people's thoughts on alternative templates for mobile devices.

The small number of J1.6 extentions for mobile seems to suggest it's not a high priority.

I found one plugin today on the JED which sounds OK. It must have been uploaded only in the last couple of days and has no votes or reviews yet. Not from a well known known name.

Not being an iPhone sort of a person I have little idea of the issues in editing a template for mobile, apart from what I've learned with the free version of iNimbus.

Is there a tutorial on editing a Joomla template for mobile?

Is it worth the effort?

Thanks.

I would be interested to hear what the rest of you think too.

With all the developments in the area of smart-phones, it is hard to keep up to date.

My general theory though is that:
- smart phones generally can display ordinary web sites ok - just that the user may have to zoom in/out a bit to navigate through the site.
Based on this assumption, I have not been using special 'smart-phone' only template styles on my web sites.
- flash does not work on most smart phones (i.e. Iphone). I therefore try to avoid flash if smart-phone compatibility is required.