This is a direct crosspost from this thread on the APEX forums but I'm hoping for as much feedback as I can get as quickly as possible. Please leave comments on the forum thread, thanks Carl.
Hey everybody if you have a chance can you test this small application on the Apex Beta instance on your phones or small footprint device. it's an index page, a report and a form , very basic but functional.
http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apexbeta/f?p=mobile_test:3
I'm focusing on Windows Mobile 5,6 and 6.1 devices , sorry that's just what the percentages tell me. Though please feel free to try other devices and or third party mobile browsers.
This is a test of a two different things.
1. The basic layout of Theme 19 (don't worry it will get a bit more colorful before release) to make sure it can be accessed in a majority of Windows Mobile browsers.
2. Suppressing built in javascript and CSS to minimize page weight!
Please leave comments in the application or on this thread, I will update this thread when I update the application.
Here's a couple to questions and answers before they are asked.
Q: That theme is plain!
A: Yes it is a very plain theme, The theme is based on minimizing both page weight and weight of external CSS.
Q: Why is the logout going to be on the bottom, plus logout doesn't work!
A: I'm trying to follow good elements of mobile design as closely as I can. http://www.w3.org/2007/02/mwbp_flip_cards#design_for_one_web
The logout doesn't work because I didn't want to slow your testing down.
Q: I just bought this very expensive iPhone thing and have seen websites specifically built for it that look and act way better than this.
A: The iPhone is very nice and you will be seeing examples of a theme and application, for it in the future, it works great but sites need to be specifically built for it to make them super iPhone'y cool.
This is a generic theme meant to work on as many mobile devices as possible.
Regards,
Carl
I use Google Reader as my only RSS reader and absolutely love it since I bounce around from computer to computer to phone.....
As quite a few other people have pointed out today ,
http://oracleappslab.com/2007/09/06/google-reader-updates/
http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2007/09/we-found-it.html
Google Reader now has search (among other things), but the thing I mainly care about is the search and it has already been helpful.
So I made it back after a long Thanksgiving weekend but with one missing piece of equipment my cellphone.
It's not a huge issue as it would seem as I had a spare laying about I just needed a new SIM chip and was good to go. But now I'm in the market for one of those fancy smart phones, thanks to the timely posting from Scott http://spendolini.blogspot.com/2006/11/can-someone-please-put-smart-in_28.html
I won't be getting a Motorola Q, but I would like to hear peoples opinions on other smart phones, I'm partial to Nokia but it doesn't need to be.
Features I'm looking for
- bluetooth
- megapixel camera
- expandable memory
- full qwerty keyboard (slide out would be awesome)
- mobile java compatible
- wifi (can give or take)
Oh and if it makes a difference I'll be buying straight from the manufacturer so I don't do through the whole locked phone debacle as I blogged about here, gotta watch that stress level :)
If anybody has strong opinion (good or bad) on a smart phone that has most of these features I'd greatly appreciate hearing about them in the blog comments.
Thanks in advance.
