This app would only be to submit figures and maybe ever once In a while comments but not very often at all.
The second part is to select items from a drop down or even checkboxes. Nothing more really besides the login and log out functions. -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 10:50 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: PDA use on website? Two approaches I would consider: 1) CSS. Using the media type of "handheld" to create an alternate presentation format for PDAs. This has the great advantage of not requiring you to maintain multiple code bases for the application display. Just swap out the stylesheet and poof, the page reformats. Unfortunately, the support for this isn't great, though you could kludge something together with CF to force doing the same thing using browser sniffing and dynamically feeding a stylesheet based on that. http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/media.html http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=HandheldStylesheets 2) Flash/Flash Lite. Abstracting the actual application into CFCs and webservice interfaces, then building a Flash tool for the specific application. This is a nice approach because in my opinion, HTML interfaces on a handheld are sucky and this lets you have more control over the user experience. http://www.macromedia.com/mobile Something to consider though when building data collection apps for handheld devices is the reality of entering the data. It's considerably more difficult and tedious to enter data via stylus than it is with keyboard. And data entry errors are more likely. I tried a simple thing to keep track of car information when I was car shopping, and taking notes at the dealerships was enough of a pita that it became easier to just scribble down the information on a paper notepad there and then transcribe it to excel at home. Heck, look at the high-tech version of shorthand that has come out of mobile phones with SMS. The two most successful data input interfaces on generic handhelds that I've seen were 1) a predefined checkbox/radio-button type form that was used at Disney to collect visitor feedback at the entrances. And 2) a Compact Flash card bar code scanner. Good luck, -Kevin On 11/10/05, Adkins, Randy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone have a good resource on creating a website version for a PDA? > I am designing an application for a client and they would like to have > the capability to log on to a website and submit cost figures back to > the corporate office while in the field. > > Thanks! > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:181126 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
