Joe: You said (a lot)-- Try lower version of IE. Try newer phone firmware. Consider it a bug on the phone browser. Open a ticket with phone company to find out why midtier won't work on their browser.
It's not IE...but it's a Sunday reply, so I have to thank you. :) --- On Sun, 12/13/09, Joe D'Souza <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Joe D'Souza <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Getting Midtier to work on mobile devices: how far can it go? > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, December 13, 2009, 5:48 PM > Rabi, > > This could well be a problem with the version of IE used in > your smart > phone.. try backdating (if a lower version is available) or > updating the HTC > phones firmware if an update is available, so you can check > if a previous > version or a later released version works better? > > Also it looks like a bug with the browser on the smart > phone since all these > things work on browsers on a PC including non IE browsers > such as safari and > FireFox with a few limitations that are not really that > significant.. > > So I may raise a ticket with the vendors of your phone too > and have them try > out what you are experiencing and compare the difference > from a PC and a > smart phone in case you have your applications deployed on > the web so they > could access your pages and experience your problems first > hand.. > > Joe > > -----Original Message----- > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:[email protected]]on > Behalf Of Rabi Tripathi > Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 5:15 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Getting Midtier to work on mobile devices: how > far can it > go? > > > One more thing with Eris Droid: > double clicking on a table row is not registered, because > that is > intercepted by Droid to do a zoom out. This can perhaps be > changed in Droid > configuration. > > --- On Sun, 12/13/09, Rabi Tripathi <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > From: Rabi Tripathi <[email protected]> > > Subject: Getting Midtier to work on mobile devices: > how far can it go? > > To: [email protected] > > Date: Sunday, December 13, 2009, 5:08 PM > > Hi all, I just started testing > > Midtier performance on Smart Phone browsers. It > appears that > > forms and workflow tend to work on phone browsers, but > have > > limitations. Has anybody played around with this? > Your > > experience? > > > > I am trying a custom "console" form on HTC Eris Droid > that > > I just got from Verizon. This and many other more > complex > > pages render fine, but when working on the forms, > there are > > some issues. The most annoying for me at this point > are: > > -Menu selection doesn't work. Menus list items ok, but > I > > can't click on any of the item. The click either > doesn't > > register, or if the click happened over a field in > the > > background, the background field gets the click. > > > > -Native buttons such save, don't seem to work. > > > > Since what browsers get back from midtier is DHTML > > (HTML+javascript+...), and many (most?) mobile > browsers > > support basic HTML and javascript. I was hoping to get > a > > much better result. "basic" is perhaps the key here. > > > > Any comments? Don't tell me my expectations are out > of > > line. At least in a user community with a limited > number of > > devices/browsers, I would like to see midtier be > usable. I > > can live with some limitations. > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > Platinum Sponsor:[email protected] > ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" > _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor:[email protected] ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
