mobile-web

Implementing a Custom Membership Provider with slightly bizarre requirements

Building a new Mobile Web Platform for Mobile Users to purchase & download content on their handsets. In the past we've used a completely bespoke login mechanism but I'm investigating using a Custom Membership Provider for the next version of the Platform. The thing is, we have some slightly odd "login" mechanism requirements, so I'm no...

WML-like solution for iPhone

We are developing a web application that should be accessible from a mobile phone. It involves a simple text-only tree catalog. To avoid extra round-trips to the server to expand the tree items as you click on them, I decided to use WML. It allows preloading multiple <card>'s in one document and fast browsing between these <card>'s. ...

How do you SEO optimize a mobile site that's being passed throught nats?

I'm having problems optimizing my mobile site. I've submitted a sitemap with a 1000 links but only 600 have been properly indexed. The thing is the links are 301 redirects that are being passed to NATs: 301 redirects goes to mobile site passed to NATs then comes back Any suggestions would be honored. Thank you for taking your time t...

User agents for mobile site, domain changing

I have a mobile site and I'd like to redirect users to the domain.mobi or mobile.subdomain (we have both setup) How do I determine a mobile browser Is it bad practice to have the mobile site on a different domain or subdomain? ...

How to bind data to a gridview in mobile applications in .net

hi,I developing a mobile web application where i need to display data retrieved from database to a grid or datatable in .net.i have tried out with list but it is not serving my pupose as i ned to siaplay multiple columns and rows fetched from the databse. Thanks in advance!! ...

Mobile frameworks for ASP.NET (better open source)

The question is simple, What mobile frameworks are you using in ASP.NET? We are using Mobile Controls + WURFL. Thx in advance, ...

Supporting Mobile Devices in Ruby on Rails

What is the best way to develop a rails application that has special views for different mobile devices? Basically I'm looking for something like this ASP.NET MVC solution: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MixMobileWebSitesWithASPNETMVCAndTheMobileBrowserDefinitionFile.aspx ...

List of UserAgent String Values

Hello, I am trying to determine what kind of interface to show to a user. If a user is visiting my site with a touch screen phone, I want to show them one interface, otherwise, I want to show them another. Does anyone know of a list of UserAgent string values so I can do this check? I know I can check for the iPhone using the followin...

How do i create a mobile site?

I want to make a simple web form where somenone can access from his mobile phone. Is it ok to user plain HTML and css? What doctype should i use? I want it to be accessible from all mobile phones. Thanks in advance. ...

is it possible to set sessionState mode programmatically in.net?

For a c# web site project that serves content for mobile phones i need to use sesion state. Mobile browsing is abit tricky area, you cannot rely on cookies because some networks just removes them or some phones does not support them at all. .net's cookieless sessions perfect solution for me but they come with some cons. For example app ...

Should I port app or redesign browser UI for for an app that needs to run on a Windows 6.1 mobile device

We currently have a custom inventory system used to track different assets. The items are bar coded and inventoried using a scanner system already built/running on standard web pages. Currently processing inventory on a desktop or laptop with a usb connected scanner. We bought a Motorola MC 55 PDA that has a built in bar code scanner an...

Why would mobile phone emulators be losing POST variables?

I'm developing a web app specifically for mobile phones, and I've run into a doozy of a problem. On the Blackberry emulator I've installed, everything works fine. But when I run my Openwave or Nokia N60 emulators, I can't log into my app any more. When I check the logs, I find that the reason is that ALL of the $_POST variables are em...

Which Devices Support Javascript Geolocation via navigator.geolocation ?

The iPhone supports geolocation in mobile Safari via the following call: navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition( function(pos){ var lat = pos.coords.latitude; var long = pos.coords.longitude; }, function(){ /* Handler if location could not be found */ } ); I'd like to build a good list of devices that have one of...

how do I pre load images for mobile website (e.g. http://m.youtube.com/, http://m.zoosk.com/)

I used this method: CSS Throwdown - Preload Images without JavaScript By Jeff Starr - http://perishablepress.com/press/2007/07/22/css-throwdown-preload-images-without-javascript/ It works fine when I view it in web browser, however on mobile, it doesn't seem to have any effect, .png icons still takes too long to load. ...

Are there any special server requirements for rendering a .mobi site?

I need to develop a mobi site for a client, do I need a specific server setup for this, or are there any additional server configurations that I need in order to render a mobi site or does it work the same as a normal website? ...

PHP framework to develop .mobi sites

I'm desperately looking for a PHP 5 framework that will work best to develop .mobi sites. One major feature that it should contain is browser recognition for different handsets, so that the site will work properly on all types of phones? ...

How to make Mobile:TextBox multiline ... Mobile Application ASP.NET 2.0

I am searching for: How we can make Mobile:TextBox to multiline as it only supports single line .... When i when through following article and implemented it i am getting same error as all other do ... Article link: http://www.asp.net/community/control-gallery/Item.aspx?i=89 Error i am getting: The control with id "TextInput" contain...

Umbraco - Mobile Phone Detect and Redirect

I am looking for a way in a umbraco site to detect if the user has a mobile device, then redirect the user to a mobile optimized page. I will also need the user to be able to force the full site if they wish. Does anyone have any experience with this? ...

Javascript in Mobileweb in ASP.NET

Is it possible to use javascript in Mobile .NET, if yes please let me know how we can do that. Please post Link to the helping article for javascript in Mobile .NET if you know some. ...

cannot login on website from mobile browser nokia 5800

Hi, Does anyone recognize this problem. If I try to login on my mobile it reloads and sends me rightback to the index/login page. The script recognizes a mobile browser and it will show a different indexpage. I have tested everything with firefox while using the switch user-agent addon. So, No problems working from a normal browser, ...