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Closed 11 years ago.
I have created a small application. How can I create a mobile version of the same website? Mobile development is very new to me so I would prefer a step by step instructions on how to do it. Thank you.
Identify only the crucial elements on the webpages, get rid of the rest.
Make sure that the elements are big enough to be navigated/clicked by finger as there is no mouse pointer.
Make sure that there is enough space between the elements, again the user will be using his finger and not the mouse.
Size the webpage to 100% width and height to automatically fit any browser on any mobile device and resolution.
Upon user webpage request, detect if it is a mobile device and redirect to the mobile version you have just created.
Now, the really difficult part is to decide if you want the same webpage to display differently on desktop and mobile, or if you want to create a separate pages for desktop and mobile.
The best solution is to use the same page and output a different content by detecting the requesting device, but it is up to you to decide.
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Closed 10 years ago.
Hello I'm about to implement responsive design for a major companies primary website which gets about 14 million unique visitors a month. I'm setting up the basic front end architecture and was wondering on any ideas and techniques that could make life easier. Was looking into backbone for mvvc, Zurb foundation, respond js for ie8, replace js for reducing http calls, GUI minifier...any suggestions that have made everyone's life easier after going down the same path??
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I currently have a platform that runs the same UX on chrome, ie8+, ff, opera, safari, ios, and android.
I would say do a lot of testing, and make sure to only use cross browser implementations.
Try not to be too cutting edge, or you will drown yourself trying to spotfix the environments which do not support those features. http://www.caniuse.com is a nice resource.
Avoid using explicit sizing.
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I intend to rebuild my existing web site using the Yii framework. I want it to be mobile-friendly, so I've decided to start right off with a generic small-screen size (mobile safari, perhaps?)
I thought I would find a ready-to-go option in Yii, ideally something like Uncomment this line in the layout page for small-size display. Not there, nothing concrete in the documentation, and nothing at the blueprint css site.
I hit Google for mobile yii, 'responsive web' yii and so on, thinking Okay, I might have to patch in someone's css solution -- not a great way to start my Yii learning, but maybe doable. All I found were tips and approaches, and they tended to assume I had experience building for mobile browsers.
(Which I don't. So far the most important thing I've learned during this search is that CSS alone doesn't make it happen; apparently jquery mobile is the tool of choice. I mention this only so you'll know the state of my understanding.)
I'm all for "wet paint technology" and not having everything handed to me, but I imagined Yii would have a response for the mobile-app challenge. What am I missing? (Maybe some choice keywords, since my research produces so little?) How do you suggest I move forward?
Try with Bootstrap framework. Create a new theme in yii and put all the boostrap files in that theme .. your yii application will start working in responsive design mode. You can also use the bootstrap extension for yii
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Closed 10 years ago.
There is a need to develop WPF application which will support both mouse and touch input. I'm looking for an approach that will enable maintaining single codebase and minimize pain to implement that. Some framework or build configuration maybe - something like Project Linker + preprocessor directives scenario that is used to multi-target both WPF and Silverlight platforms in single project. Thanks in advance.
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Sample scenario : application has control that allows user upload multiple photos onto server. File selection box supports drag'n'drop with mouse, also it has to support some gesture to add new files.
Check this Drag and Drop Library.
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Closed 10 years ago.
Is there a way to force Zxing library to scan text only? I am looking for the offline (non-cloud) solution to scan text in windows phone.
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The integrated Bing vision successfully scans text from the image. Is there a way to call the same task in our application (something like Microsoft.Phone.Tasks)?
If you're looking for OCR solutions, you could use this so post.
Regarding bing vision - there's no support for third-party developers yet. Though there's a project called Hawaii (yes, it's cloud-based) that's probably going to be the gateway for bing vision ocr.
As far as i know, there's no native .NET OCR engines. In theory, you could use any OCR SDK that worked for Win CE (as long as WP7 is based on it), but in practice - i haven't seen any working solution yet and all OCR applications for WP7 that i've seen were based on cloud services. I can point you to some ready to go cloud solutions if you'd change your mind about web API.
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Closed 10 years ago.
Are there any tools for Mobile Website (not Mobile Application) Development?
For computer websites, CSS grids like Blueprint CSS are used. Is there any thing similar for the mobile version?
There's lot of talk about HTML5 + CSS3 + Javascript - a combination thats going to transform Mobile Websites. Not sure how true. Any good tutorials or starting points that you could suggest.
Thanks.
For touch devices jqtouch is a good solution. There are also commercial ones like Sencha Touch.
Check out a responsive framework like zurb or bootstrap. If you stick with what the frameworks have, you can have one codebase of the site that works in mobile browsers also.