mobile-web

Best Wiki for Mobile Users

Most wiki software I've presents lots of "features" on their pages. This is fine for desktop users, but is annoying when using an iPhone or other mobile device. I'd prefer pages that just had the content, along with maybe an Edit button and a Search button. The editors are also often too fancy for mobile users; a simple multi-line edi...

Mobile device is detected as non mobile device

I've included a mobile web form in my asp.net project, I thought that it could/should be seen just for my mobile users but I realize that it can also be seen from any browser, I don't see problem there cause I could diff the access using HttpBrowserCapabilities.IsMobileDevice=true and transferring to the appropiate aspx page, but it resu...

iPhone browser tag and optimized web site

What is iPhone's browser tag and how iPhone optimized web site is different from a usual mobile web site? Thanks! ...

Mobile Capability for meta tags render en ASP.NET Mobile

Hi, Anybody knows what is mobile capability for render Meta Tags for each adapter? I am using Marg.Wurfl to detect mobile device, and it maps wurfl capabilities to mobile capabilities, but it does not render meta tags.I have found requiresXhtmlCssSuppression capability in ASP.NET Mobile Controls XHTML Adapter Source, but it doesn´t work...

Change Django Templates Based on User-Agent

I've made a Django site, but I've drank the Koolaid and I want to make an IPhone version. After putting much thought into I've come up with two options: Make a whole other site, like i.xxxx.com. Tie it into the same database using Django's sites framework. Find some time of middleware that reads the user-agent, and changes the templa...

A way to prevent a mobile browser from downloading and displaying images

Hey, Is there a simple way to prevent browser from downloading and displaying images, best would be via some magic style tag or javasctipe. The thing is, I'd like to tweak the company's website a bit to be more usable via mobile devices. The company is a gaming one, there's like 5MBs of images on it's main page (and those can't be touc...

Demos of Mobile Web Abilities?

I'm trying to determine what kinds of interactions a mobile website can handle. For example, I obviously can't track page-level dragging operations because this scrolls on mobile browsers. So, I'm looking for demos that can tell me what interactions work, how well, and hopefully for information about how consistently that is across mobil...

Is NetBiscuits any good?

Has anybody got any real world stories build mobile web sites with NetBiscuits? Someone told me it was the next big thing in mobile development (http://www.netbiscuits.com/home) and it looks pretty good from their site. Just wondered if anybody (besides them) has actually used it. ...

How do you get the value of a bound MobileListItem?

I'm writing a "simple" web app for web enabled phones. I'm using ObjectList to show a list of service orders, and need to allow certain commands to be fired on those. All is fine, more or less, with the layout and everything... but in the ItemCommand event the MobileListItem in the command argument does not have it's Value or Text prop...

Any real reason to use ASP.NET Mobile?

I've been putting together a small web form for our technicians to use from their phones out in the field. However I'm having a lot of trouble getting things working using ASP.NET Mobile, and there seems to be few resources out there to help learn this stuff. I'm also having trouble getting help. So the thing is, do I really need to...

How do I develop a Web based application in ASP.NET 3.5 that can be viewed on an iPhone 3G ?

I want to develop a mobile web application using asp.net 3.5 that can be viewed on an iPhone but there is no longer a template in VS2008 to enable mobile development. Can this be done ? ...

Detect mobile supported languages

Is it possible is asp to detect from the MobileCapabilities object if the device support arabic or not ...

Phone numbers to links in Python

I'm working a piece of code to turn phone numbers into links for mobile phone - I've got it but it feels really dirty. import re from string import digits PHONE_RE = re.compile('([(]{0,1}[2-9]\d{2}[)]{0,1}[-_. ]{0,1}[2-9]\d{2}[-_. ]{0,1}\d{4})') def numbers2links(s): result = "" last_match_index = 0 for match in PHONE_RE.f...

Sending an SMS to a Cellphone using Django

I am building an application, where I have this little survey module, which sends out a simple sms to the phone number I give and has to collect the response(if the user fires it) and show it to me. I am using to django build my project. I have tried django-sms google code project, but I couldn't post messages back from my mobile to my s...

Calendar (date-picker) control for mobile devices in ASP.Net

Hi, I'm looking for a calendar control (aka date-picker) that works on mobile devices. The problem is most devices are w/o JavaScript, or with poor JavaScript support. ASP.Net's built-in control uses JavaScript to do post-back. ASP.Net has a mobile calendar control, but it isn't fully localizable (on low end devices where it displays a...

Simulators/emulators for mobile browser testing?

I'm doing development of a web application aimed at mobile devices. What software can I use to simulate/emulate mobile browser environments? I'm specifically looking for a way to test on Mobile Safari, the Android browser, mobile Opera, Mobile IE, the Blackberry Browser and any other common platform I'm missing. Note: I am using Windo...

With modern mobile devices, is it best to use WML or HTML?

With today's modern mobile phones, is it still worth programming the mobile version of your site in WML? Most mobile browsers even a few years old can manage to do okay in regular HTML. With WML, you are obviously given more control over what is displayed and what isn't with less fear of it not working on a particular device, but today,...

What is the difference between "SMS Push" and "WAP Push"?

The terms WAP Push and SMS Push seems to both be used when talking about pushing messages to a mobile application to trigger download of WAP content. Do the terms refer to the same mechanism or do they have different meaning? ...

How to develpo the web based application that can be viewed on the mobile phone in asp.net(vs2008)

sir I am the beginner of the asp.net,for my current project i need to develop a mobile web application using asp.net 3.5 that can be viewed on an Phone and all other browser what to support it, but there is no longer a template in VS2008 to enable mobile development. please give some more idea about that sir,Thank you. ...

mobile web application using asp.net(vb2008)

Sir thanks for your replay ,I want how to create a page that is specific to each mobile browser,and how to use the mobile control,sir i want some more idea to learn about that mobile application,and also sample coding sir ...