Web pages on screens A page that knows its screen Topic 4 of 4

A page that knows its screen

Topic 4 of 4

A poster shows the same thing everywhere. A web page does not have to. Screenly can tell a page which screen it is loading on, by sending details about the device along with the request: the screen’s name, and other context about it.

A page that reads those details can adapt itself. One dashboard URL shows the New York floor’s numbers in New York and the Chicago floor’s in Chicago. One room-booking page shows each room its own schedule. You publish a single page, and each screen receives the version that is right for it.

This is the mechanism behind an idea from Content: manage one piece, show many. Instead of building and maintaining near-identical pages for every location, you keep one that knows how to localize itself from what the screen tells it.

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