Re: existing cgi site, smartphone access

[Pete Helgren <pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I put together an app using jQuery Mobile I am not completely happy 
with, yet.  You can find it here:

http://www.asaap.com/asaap3/ASAAP?action=MobileDefault

The full access analog (the web site it is an alternative to) can be 
found here:

http://www.asaap.com/asaap3/ASAAP

This is a software application I sell that helps school districts manage 
their employee attendance (both absences and time worked).

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.

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.

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.

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


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.
>
> Aaron Bartell
> http://mowyourlawn.com
> http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/
>
>
>
> 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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