This post is pertanant only to people with mobile phones on the Virgin Canada mobile service.
I learned something interesting when I tried to send myself a link to check out with my phone—It won’t work. Well, not without a little playing around with anyways.
It turns out that all successful URLs served on my phone are being run through a Vmobile proxy. If you tell your mobile browser to “show URL”, you’ll see something like this:
Shameless self-portrait, with mobile proxy demonstration.
(Having uploaded the example image, I realize now that it’s difficult to see the address next to my semi-smirking face.) The full address that allows me to see m.google.com is http://proxy.vmobile.ca/ph/m.google.com/
What does that mean?
Any web address that you want to view on your Virgin Canada mobile needs to be prefixed with:
http://proxy.vmobile.ca/ph/
Just make sure you drop the http:// part of the web address you want to check. Happy mobile surfing, Vmobile subscribers!
Periodically, I like to revise my list of web safe fonts. I know that these lists exist all over the internet, but I like to keep my own records to reflect my own expectations.
These results check against operating system font installations for Mac OS X 10.3+ and Windows XP.
The web safe fonts are:
Arial
Arial Black
Comic Sans MS
Courier New
Georgia
Symbol (Interestingly, this is the only font result that isn’t also one of Microsoft’s Core fonts for the Web
