Hi Tom, I think there could be two issues here.
The first is personalisation which I don't believe is the subject of your query. The second is device support, or to be more precise "Browser" support. You are no doubt aware that despite the wonderful marketing picture painted by many CMS vendors, the reality is that code needs to be put into most CMS implementations to detect the browser version. Most developers now take this for granted. Checking if it is a Netscape or IE browser, which version of the browser is available, before selecting the actual template to be applied to the content that is sent to the device. My understanding (from creating one WML / WAP site) is that the Phone's browser can be interrogated by the server for its characteristics just like the Netscape / IE. This enables logic on the server to only send valid information to the phone. I believe a better question for the List, is to ask would you all support asking vendors to provide the Browser variation support within their product ...that is one Template for one set of Content and the CMS make the results of that template work on all Browsers ? Regards, Dave >From: Tom Weiss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: 11 December 2002 20:53 >To: cms-list >Subject: [cms-list] CMS and mobile handsets >I've been working on a really tricky CMS problem recently: basically if >you run a large mobile portal you end up have to support a wide range of >mobile phones (100+) and not all pages will work on all phones. For >some, this is simply a case of the content not being appropriate, i.e. >Club Nokia on a Motorola phone, some it relates to downloading paid for >content that doesn't work on your phone (ringtones, java games), or may >even be dependant on multimedia features on the phone (i.e. colour). >Basicaly you end up with a massive range of different sitemaps - almost >one for each phone - whereas what you really want is a single sitemap >and rules to define what pages are shown to different groups of phones. >Now - I've stated the requirement, which is half the battle - but as you >know I am a great fan of using CMSs "out of the box" with as little >customisation as possible, so what I'm wondering is >a) Does anyone know of a commercial CMS that can do this? (Vendors, this >is not an invitation to spam me - if you system does it, then post to >the list the name of an example site that is using your CMS out of the >box for this application). >b) Is there another way to approach this problem that results in a >solution without massive customisation to the CMS? > >Cheers, > >Tom. Ether Solutions - Specialists in Content Management Telephone - 020 8901 4030 Website - www.ether-solutions.co.uk The information in this email is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the Sender. Thank you. -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
