Re: existing cgi site, smartphone access

[Pete Helgren <pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Bryce.  Using modals is a good idea.  I really haven't had enough 
time to walk through all of the api's and features of jQuery Mobile 
yet.  The biggest challenge in a mobile app is re-thinking everything 
and taking a minimalist approach.  Also, things like "hover" really 
don't apply, so helpful things like tooltips aren't so helpful.  
Thinking "mobile" is easier when you actually *have* a mobile device 
(which I finally have and has made designing the app a bit easier)

I appreciate the feedback.

Pete Helgren
Value Added Software, Inc
www.asaap.com
www.opensource4i.com


On 10/26/2010 12:29 PM, Bryce Martin wrote:
> Date picker is not usable from Blackberry Storm.  From Firefox I notice
> that when you first load the date picker it doesn't highlight the dates
> with the purple border for dates that already have an absence.  It does on
> the second time you pull it up though.  Have you thought about using
> modals instead of alert boxes?
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> I put together an app using jQuery Mobile I am not completely happy
> with, yet.  You can find it here:
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> http://www.asaap.com/asaap3/ASAAP?action=MobileDefault
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> The full access analog (the web site it is an alternative to) can be
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> http://www.asaap.com/asaap3/ASAAP
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> This is a software application I sell that helps school districts manage
> their employee attendance (both absences and time worked).
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> You can sign on to either web app using the userid of 10123 and a
> password of 1234.  (you can try both and see what the "full" web version
> is like vs just the mobile version).  The mobile app still needs quite a
> bit of work for maintaining the absence information.  Existing absences
> show up with a purple highlight around the border but I should probably
> just retrieve and display that information so that it can be
> maintained.  Still need to add some functionality.
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> I'll post up a PhoneGap Web App next and then a full mobile app later
> on.  I spent way too much time with the jQuery stuff assuming it would
> be a fairly quick app to throw together (always famous last words).  I
> had some issues with the JSON/Ajax loading of the selects.  There is a
> "feature" in jQuery Mobile that prevents it from happening easily.
> However, someone posted a workaround that works quite well so that got
> me going again.
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> These are live applications.  They are accessing the DB2 for i database
> on i.  They are Java servlet apps at the back end but could just as
> easily be RPG since they just deliver JSON through an Ajax call.
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> Pete Helgren
> Value Added Software, Inc
> www.asaap.com
> www.opensource4i.com
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> On 10/24/2010 2:43 PM, Aaron Bartell wrote:
> > I have an article coming out this coming week that shows how to use
> > SenchaTouch with OpenRPGUI.  Sencha touch is a fairly full featured
> > mobile UI framework.  Pete Helgren and Neils Liisberg also posted some
> > recent findings about jqTouch and jQuery and their mobile efforts.
> > The latter appear to have a smaller footprint concerning download.
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> > Aaron Bartell
> > http://mowyourlawn.com
> > http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/
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> > On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Jim Franz<franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > > asked to take existing cgi site, make it smartphone friendly.
> > > Not just a point/click site, but data entry text (order detail includes
> up to 8 names&   addresses which they can store common ones to select from
> drop down)
> > > What works well (or doesn't work well) in small screen apps?
> > >
> > > Jim Franz
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