Jason Miller wrote:
** We have tried for years as the device get more powerful and the MT
gets faster. To this day we are yet to find a device that can utilize
enough functionality to be usable.
The closest we have come is with the newer generation Blackberries
(Storm/Tour) and the iPhone with both MT 7.1 and 7.5. We can get
authenticated and load a very basic form display only form. We have
see similar issues where tables to not work as designed, buttons and
Active Links do not work. It doesn't take too complex of a form to
make a Blackberry display an error that the page is too large to
load. We are closer than we have ever been but not quite there yet.
We are supposed to be getting a few demo phones <not sure if there is
any kind of NDA so I will not state the device> that are claimed to
have full browser functionality including flash. We'll see how these
work when they materialize.
Jason
I have been working on getting our forms to work on the iPhone (which
seem to be the only mobile devices that seem to work with our internal
WiFi network) but it is a bit of an uphill challenge.
As people have previously said, some objects, like menus and
double-clicking on table rows, don't work on the iPhone. Also, getting
large fields to display with a scroll-bar is a bit hit-and-miss
(although I have been given a JavaScript workaround from BMC that
sometimes helps). For example, getting the diary to display caused me
quite a headache. My final solution was to write it out to an HTML page
and then use an open URL Perform Action AL to display it. Thanks for
the idea to get menus displayed as tables - I'll give that a try.
Buying an Aeroprise set-up is not a solution for us as with the number
of devices that we are using doesn't justify the cost. Aeroprise did
tell me once that they are working on a solution specifically for the
iPhone but were a bit sketchy on details.
I have also written CGI scripts using ARSperl, but that is not really
the way forward that I wish to take.
Hope this helps,
Ian
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Specialist Support & Development, Training & Support Services, Academic
& Administrative Computing Service
Open University, MILTON KEYNES, UK
Phone: 01908 653741 web: http://www.open.ac.uk/
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