I wanted to start a discussion about the future of our mobile interface with the group and solicit some feedback.
First, the mobile version is a great asset to have. The interface is super lightweight, clean and works universally (more or less). However, the mobiles that are in the pockets of many tracks users today, likely most, have browsers capable of much more. Every "smartphone" and many non-"smartphones" support some level of javascript. However, if you visit the mainline tracks interface on your smartphone, the experience is comprised. I happen to use a blackberry (and we used to have an ipod touch, but the kids fried it) and it works but much of the javascript goodies are lost and this actually limits the interface's usefulness. For example, autocomplete and javascript powered drop down menus among others (at least on my blackberry) do not work. So my thought is we need some happy medium between the two. Something with some basic javascript for things like ticking off completed actions while respecting the expected screen resolution of ~320px wide. It should avoid drop down menus and the add and edit form probably need to be left to a separate page instead of region of the page or an overlay on the existing page. The question I have is what path offers the least resistance to achieve this goal? (We must be realistic. This is an open source project after all. We may have big dreams, but we also have small time budgets to contribute!) One path would be to take the existing mobile interface and layer in some of the important javascript goodness we want... Alternatively, we could clone the rich interface and dumb down the javascript to the essentials and slim the width of the interface to an arbitrary goal ( say 320px)? Maybe there are tools to use I am unaware of?? Let me know if you have input on the idea. I am willing to take a run at a development branch, but wanted to gather some opinion first, Thanks, Tim
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