Hey Rabi, I assumed your smartphone (since you claimed you are using that) is loaded with Windows mobile OS which is a MS product and uses Internet Explorer as its browser..
I was and still am under the impression that it was Microsoft that first coined the term smartphones for devices that were PDA's with a phone function included.. Hence my assumption that you had IE on your phone.. It has nothing to do on the day of the week I swear - such things have an effect on only mortal humans haha!! On a serious note, if you do not have IE, you must be using either a mac phone (iPhone) or a blackberry?? Or maybe even the latest Nuvi Garmin phone or one of the Nokia PDA/phones? In that case yes it MAY not be IE - About 5 years ago I did have had a fancy Nokia phone that was not a Windows mobile phone and did have IE in its OS.. If it is not IE that you are using then there is your small problem in the first place. The Mid-Tier application was generally tested for IE browsers on PC's and to the best of my knowledge IE browsers on wireless devices as well. I am not sure if it is even tested for blackberries.. I used the mid tier application on a my older phone that had a Windows 6 OS and did not have the same problem you said you are experiencing which is why I suggested downgrading it to a lower version (just in case the newer one is not compatible).. Joe -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Rabi Tripathi Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 11:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Getting Midtier to work on mobile devices: how far can it go? 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"
