Hi Devs, In Roller we can create custom templates to a weblog and access them using a link like http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/page/archives.Since Roller does not care about the rendering device at the moment it will render the same template if viewed in a mobile device also.
But having separate mobile rendering capability, we have to have templates that can render in mobile devices as well as Desktops.Here are the possible solutions that i have thought of. 1. Having 2 separate templates as , one is for standard and other one is for mobile.So a custom template page designer can create mobile optimized view as wish and have a separate one for desktop standard.But viewer will see no difference in the page link. So a template will have a type defined as standard for desktop and Mobile for mobile devices. There is a problem as we cannot have 2 templates using same link and if we are going to allow this we have to change getPageByLink() to getPageByLinks() which will return a list of available pages. (but with different types.) so render it according to the device. 2. We define the type to a template page as we do in the earlier.But preserving unique link for a template feature we can create another custom template with a predefined suffix and then render it to user. As an eg: We create template X having the link /page/link. if the type is mobile we add the suffix .mobile so link will be modified as /page/link.mobile (This will happen internally) if type is standard we keep the original link. (/page/link) So at the time a user ask for /page/link when we identify the request comes from a mobile device we will look for the template with /page/link.mobile first and if it is not available we will render the default one (standard). I would like to have some suggestions and feedback on the above mentioned ideas and really appreciate it. Thank you -- Shelan Perera Home: http://www.shelan.org Blog : http://www.shelanlk.com Twitter: shelan skype :shelan.perera gtalk :shelanrc I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. *invictus*
