I'm looking to allow my users to my mobile web click on a link to straight away add my contact into their phone (iphone/android).
I know there's a tel scheme available and I'm currently using that on top. Is there anyway to provide First Name, Last Name, Email, Phone in a combined solution to store into my user's phone?
There is the Contacts API spec in conjunction with Permissions for Device API Access (you need to have permission to write or read contacts), but no browser supports it yet.
Mozilla Labs is working on it, but it is only in the desktop.
As for schemas there is http://schema.org/Person but this is only used by search engines, for now, maybe in the near future browsers "learn" to use these schemas.
There is also the hybrid web/native app solution with PhoneGap, but it is not a mobile web solution!
I think you can create your contact in .vcf. If user click the link to your vcf, your contact will be downloaded an then opened for confirmation to save into phone book
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We recently had a mobile site built which was great but when we send out our html emails I'm having to use media queries on the links to send customers to the desktop site or mobile site as the URLs are different Eg. m.mobilesite.com and www.desktopsite.com.
I'd like to use something like 'detectmobilebrowsers.com' so I can do away with the media queries and have one link which is built up of both the mobile and desktop links. The setup advice on this site is not very helpful.
Does anybody know how to do this?
Personally, I don't like the sound of that. You cannot guarantee that the mail/webmail client will be able to support "responsive links", regardless of the device that the user is viewing it on. Hence, you could very well be pointing users to the wrong device specific site.
What I would do, is point all of your email links to the main site version. At that point, you should have some form of device detection in place on your server. Your site logic should be able to forward the user on to the correct site specific page (e.g. mobile visitor sent to mobile version of same page, desktop user not redirected).
If you don't any redirection logic in place (you really should, read this), basically this is what you're looking to achieve:
http://www.9xb.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/mobile-deployment-small.png
If you're not following the rules laid out by Google regarding redirects and canonical link tags, you may find yourself in trouble at some point.
If this is all a bit beyond your technical ability, I'd suggest you speak with whoever built your mobile site as this isn't for the faint hearted.
Suppose I have a video hosting site, like youtube. When user clicks on a link on the site, I want to open a WinRT application for a better viewing experience, how would I do that?
How do I pass parameters into the WinRT application, to let it know what video it should stream? I need to be able to go back and forth, so I assume I can introduce a hyperlink to go back to the site from the app.
The other possibility is to embed the application on the site itself. How would that work? Can you still inline an applet style application on the site itself (eg. flash/silverlight)?
It is possible to launch a Windows Store app, given that you know the URI scheme associated with that application. For example, the Games app has the xboxgames: associated with it. If you insert a link with that URI scheme, the shell will pick it up as an internal reference. Read more details here.
You might also be interested in reading more on how to connect your website to a Windows Store app here.
Edit: It is possible to have an associated url: see accepted answer from Den Delimarsky.
Alternatively, a Windows Store app can declare file type associations. So you could make the user download a file (for example "video.customExtension"), which could contain informations, such as the video the app should play. In the same way as it works for Office Live Meeting when you download a meeting file to start a meeting.
If the user download that kind of file from your website, and that he doesn't have the corresponding app installed, he will be prompted to look for an app that can open that file in the store, and he will find your app.
And finally, no you can't embbed an Windows 8 Store app in a webpage.
here is my what I am trying to do.
I have a .mobi site wayfieldfoods.mobi that is set up on a wordpress format. I am using a plugin that make the site mobile with custom menu wayfieldfoods.mobi/mlp/home.
my clients website is wayfieldfoods.com . How do I add (or redirect) wayfieldfoods.mobi to my clients site? if someone is using a mobile device and types in the url wayfieldfoods.com, I want the mobi site to display instead of the regular wayfieldfoods.com desktop site.
I spoke with someone earlier and they said that it's a code that has to be installed on the index page of my clients wayfieldfoods.com website in order for mobile access to the mobi site.
What is the special code needed to redirect to mobile traffic to my wayfieldfoods.mobi site.
(as a side note wayfieldfoods.mobi shows up on a desktop computer as a regular wordpress site with the default twenty eleven theme, but wayfieldfoods.mobi displays on a mobile phone with the mobile friendly website I set up. It works fine displayed on a mobile phone).
You can use Handset Detection to redirect mobiles to your mobile site (disclaimer : my startup). Browse on over and create a free account. There's a javascript snippet you paste into the of your homepage.
Hope that helps.
I'm building a Windows Phone App that involves users talking to each other through a web service. Does Windows Phone expose the User or Device ID to the app that I can use to identify the different users? Better yet would be a federated login through Live ID.
Thanks!
There is a Device ID that you can use that is unique to each phone. You get it via the Device Information which you can read about here -> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff941122%28v=VS.92%29.aspx
And then you can read about it a little more on this blog post with a more full featured example.
http://www.nickharris.net/2010/09/windows-phone-7-how-to-find-the-device-unique-id-windows-live-anonymous-id-and-manufacturer/
I want to implement "mobile website provider" tool. Basically, It intake desktop website url and generate a mobile version of website without edit/add additional content to the desktop website. I am planning to design a product like (what mofuse.com does. This website create mobile websites). This tool should be hassle free to client(who are not tech savvy.)
1.Q) I want to know kind of functionality involved in this process.
2.Q) In Java Technology, I need the tool set and functionality of this actitity.
As I am new to this mobile application environment. Any information(web links) regarding this will be appreciated.
Update:
its not like skweezer.com.
I had a website and I want to "mobile"ize it. 1) What kind of java tool set I have to use to create mobile web site? 2) How to test in multiple mobile devices 3) How the domain name will be created for mobile websites.
Check out our Wapple Architect tech (http://wapple.net) - we allow you to use the same content from web to mobile, but if it's mobile, instead of outputting the html, use a web service to turn it into the right content for that particular handset.
Mobilizes the same domain, no need for m.yourdomain.com or anything like that.
Check http://wapple.net on a mobile for example!
there are certain plugins which mobilise your website .
they check user agent and if user agent is of mobile browser they load another css of mobile and if you want to redirect some another redirect it ther.
you dont have to buy separate domain make sub domain or cname like
m.yourdomain.ccom
wap.yaourdomain.com
try some javacripts code which detect browser type and redirect accordingly.
The best place to learn about mobile toolkits are
WURFL - The open source community built around profiling devices and managing their capabilities (http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/)
Mobile Elements - A tool to help you build mobile sites using a proxy type approach (http://www.mobilelements.com)
Device Atlas - A device profiling tool (http://www.deviceatlas.com)