Samsung S500i: does not support cellpadding/cellspacing at all. Meaning that all table cells have the the text pushed right to the edge in a rather ugly manner. It does put 1px of padding and 1px of cellspacing/white-border on each cell though—without asking and completely uncustomisable.
Samsung S500i: does not support <optgroup> in select boxes, meaning that any drop down style navigation is forced to be ugly. If you are silly enough to use an <optgroup>, the browser in the Samsung S500i completely cocks up the POSTing of the select box’s variable, sending the one after the one selected.
Samsung S500i: does not intelligently colour active links if a colour is specified for alink in the body. Oh yes, it’s quite happy to render black alink text on a black background. Why? Because it’s a stupid phone.
You guessed it folks, I hate the Samsung S500i. It’s ugly as sin too. Anyone thinking about joining O2 for an i-mode party in October, take my advice: go for the NEC 411i. The cheap NEC 343i is better than the Samsung, and it looks great, but the colour contrast it dodgy and it’s HTML rendering is not quite as sophisticated as the mid-range set.
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