We're looking into building a PDA application to do stock management, linked to our ERP system. This app would run on PDA's with barcode scanners, like this one:
http://www.unitech-europe.nl/products/P_product_detail.asp?prodID=18&PGID=2
It would be nice if we could build the stock management application as a web application. This way we don't need to learn new UI toolkits for the PDA, and updating the PDA's client apps won't be an issue.
Does anybody know a PDA web browser which will run on Windows CE 5, and have some/all of these qualities?
- A basic ability to render HTML/CSS
- A basic javascript engine (for confirm() and the likes)
- Reasonable speed (internet explorer bundled with Windows CE is dog slow)
- Some sort of "kiosk" mode, where the user doesn't have back/refresh/exit buttons, except with an admin override (to prevent things like double posts when doing stock changes)
- Some control over the on-screen keyboard. It would be nice if we could prevent the full on-screen keyboard appearing every time the user focuses an input field (most warehouse PDA's have keypads for number entry).
- Control over other hardware buttons via javascript would be great