Eric Bruno
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| Posted: 07/04/2006, 10:30 PM |
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I have playing around with mobile web for cell phones and PDA's over the
last couple of weeks.
Mobile web is more than like 2 years away in my opinion from being a
general concern to most developers.
However it could be useful if CodeCharge Studio could start to add
support for WML and XHTML-MP over the next 18 months. The really big
problem is testing and detecting the mobile web browsers. From what I
ran across there appears to be over 40 mobile web browsers on the
market. Just playing around with my cell phone and my kids cell phones
(LG and Motorola) there are differences.
In the simplest implementation all that would be required is detection
of a mobile web browser and redirection to alternate page. Since the
screens are smaller you would have have different content.
One possibility would be to have a page attribute which would key off of
a value in a GET/POST variable and then redirect to another page.
I could hand code this but it would be better if Codecharge took care of
it from a maintenance perspective.
For anyone that is interested in mobile web here is a page I found with
some useful links:
http://www.cameronmoll.com/archives/000577.html
Eric Bruno
Santa Clara, CA
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Benjamin Krajmalnik
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| Posted: 07/05/2006, 12:58 PM |
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I currently do this - in CCS 2.x.
I wrote a small class which is run before th user logs in.
It has an open archiecture to enable to expand it as new browser id's become
available.
Each browser id string is associated with a template set, so I can have
multiple presentation layers t any given tie, loade dynamically.
The biggest problem is tht the mobile browers, by and large, are
problematic. For xample, BlackBerry does not maintin the state of select
boxes, most of them do not support popups- and fr the time being forget
XMLHTTP for ajax type functionality.
Hopefully, mobile browers will improve.
"Eric Bruno" <eric@ebruno.org> wrote in message
news:e8fipp$f8o$1@news.codecharge.com...
>I have playing around with mobile web for cell phones and PDA's over the
>last couple of weeks.
>
> Mobile web is more than like 2 years away in my opinion from being a
> general concern to most developers.
>
> However it could be useful if CodeCharge Studio could start to add support
> for WML and XHTML-MP over the next 18 months. The really big problem is
> testing and detecting the mobile web browsers. From what I ran across
> there appears to be over 40 mobile web browsers on the market. Just
> playing around with my cell phone and my kids cell phones (LG and
> Motorola) there are differences.
>
> In the simplest implementation all that would be required is detection of
> a mobile web browser and redirection to alternate page. Since the
> screens are smaller you would have have different content.
>
> One possibility would be to have a page attribute which would key off of
> a value in a GET/POST variable and then redirect to another page.
> I could hand code this but it would be better if Codecharge took care of
> it from a maintenance perspective.
>
> For anyone that is interested in mobile web here is a page I found with
> some useful links:
>
> http://www.cameronmoll.com/archives/000577.html
>
> Eric Bruno
> Santa Clara, CA
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