Hi all, I'm about to start work on a project for which the clients will mainly be mobile phones. It's just a simple message board; the server side code will be straightfoward enough.
The main issue with mobile phone browsers, though, is that every one of them is different and has its own set of daft quirks. For example, Sony Ericssons tend to oversize text, some Nokia's struggle with CSS floats, Blackberrys are... godawful. To solve this I was thinking of adding a service into Tapestry a bit like the localization. Given the user agent, I can work out what device profile to show (eg, "nokia_n95") then use that to choose a template not unlike the way localization currently works. So it'd choose HomePage_nokia_n95.tml to run or something. If, however, I don't want to completely rewrite the template for every profile, say the changes are only minor (this will be most cases), then I'd want a way to change the template before rendering on the fly. For example, replacing "p" tags with "span class=nokia_paragraph". I'm sending this email to the list becase firstly, I was wondering if anyone has any experience doing something like this with Tapestry or even any other framework. Secondly, does anyone have any pointers for what sort of services and interfaces I'd have to contribute? I need something that can choose a template before rendering for the first case and for the second, I might need a custom markup writer or something? Then I could perform a quick lookup for the "write" methods and replace the elements written to the final page? Many thanks in advance, Carl --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
