Joe, Droid is Google's operating system that uses a "Webkit" based browser. iPhone's browser is built on Webkit too.
I don't want to get hung up on the specifics. I just want to hear about successes and failures from people that have tried to get Midtier to work on different mobile devices. Anybody? --- On Mon, 12/14/09, 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: Monday, December 14, 2009, 2:35 AM > 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. 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