RE: Blackberry 101 for developers

2005-07-27 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
You can also download the Blackberry IDE which has a Blackberry decice ROM to test on. -Original Message- From: Ray Champagne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 July 2005 18:07 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Blackberry 101 for developers Okay, cool, this is great stuff. Now, is there a

Re: SOT: Blackberry 101 for developers

2005-07-26 Thread Matthew Fusfield
There are a few options for Blackberry applications using CF. For the most part, the Blackberry browser can be used which supports HTML "lite". You can also do "push" applications fairly easily with ColdFusion and the Mobile Data Service (MDS) on Blackberry Enterprise Server. There are a number of

Re: SOT: Blackberry 101 for developers

2005-07-26 Thread Adrocknaphobia
Ray, Most BlackBerry's have HTML browsers. Albeit usually in monochrome, but HTML browsers none-the-less. So the simple answer could be to just watch your page widths and d/l times. -Adam On 7/26/05, Ray Champagne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cool! > > My big question is, if I'm just submitting

Re: SOT: Blackberry 101 for developers

2005-07-26 Thread Ray Champagne
Cool! My big question is, if I'm just submitting a simple form whose fields are just going to be emailed from the web server, is there any reason that I'd have to worry about other than display? I mean, it seems like once the info is pushed off the Blackberry, it should just be taken care of

Re: SOT: Blackberry 101 for developers

2005-07-26 Thread Rick Mason
Ray, I have a friend who has done some Blackberry apps using WML. I've seen some of his apps that use forms to submit info to a CF backend. If I am not mistaken Ben Forta even has a book out on WML. The other alternative on the newer Blackberries is Java. Rick Mason KnowledgeWatch Got news?

Re: Blackberry 101 for developers

2005-07-26 Thread Kevin Bridges
There is an area at http://www.blackberry.net/developers/index.shtml I'd recommend looking at http://www.blackberry.net/developers/started/index.shtml and http://www.blackberry.net/developers/downloads/simulators/index.shtml Ray Champagne wrote: >Okay, cool, this is great stuff. > >Now,

Re: Blackberry 101 for developers

2005-07-26 Thread Ray Champagne
Okay, cool, this is great stuff. Now, is there a preferred emulator (I just downloaded one from blackberry.com) that I can test this with, since I personally don't have one? Kevin Bridges wrote: > Start with the document structure below (strict xhtml compliance) and > use the validator at http

Re: Blackberry 101 for developers

2005-07-26 Thread Kevin Bridges
Also look at http://www.tinkertech.net/tutor/xhtml/ Ray Champagne wrote: >any online resouces that you use that you'd recommend to get me started? > >Paul Vernon wrote: > > >>XHTML + CSS is the way to go... I've done this on sites that I can now >>access on my mobile phone and that has a tiny s

Re: Blackberry 101 for developers

2005-07-26 Thread Kevin Bridges
Start with the document structure below (strict xhtml compliance) and use the validator at http://validator.w3.org/ as you develop. If you make a change and validate immediately after you will be able to see useful messages from the w3c explaining how you need to alter your design. http://www.

RE: Blackberry 101 for developers

2005-07-26 Thread CollicuttL
Subject: Re: Blackberry 101 for developers any online resouces that you use that you'd recommend to get me started? Paul Vernon wrote: > XHTML + CSS is the way to go... I've done this on sites that I can now > access on my mobile phone and that has a tiny screen... A Blackberry

Re: Blackberry 101 for developers

2005-07-26 Thread Ray Champagne
any online resouces that you use that you'd recommend to get me started? Paul Vernon wrote: > XHTML + CSS is the way to go... I've done this on sites that I can now > access on my mobile phone and that has a tiny screen... A Blackberry device > should be no problems... > > Paul > > >

RE: Blackberry 101 for developers

2005-07-26 Thread Paul Vernon
XHTML + CSS is the way to go... I've done this on sites that I can now access on my mobile phone and that has a tiny screen... A Blackberry device should be no problems... Paul ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient w

SOT: Blackberry 101 for developers

2005-07-26 Thread Ray Champagne
Hey all: So, here's a question for some of you more savvy developers out there: how to I program a corporate web site to be viewable by a Blackberry? We have a client who's salesforce just got issued Blackberrys. They already have a web site with a form that they'd like to access via the Blac