I am an asp.net developer looking to build a web app using iUI for the iPHone. I was wondering if this app would also display properly on other devices.
Thanks in advance.
Look at ASP.NET MVC. The routing engine can use different views to render the page depending on the agent provided by the browser. Hanselman has some great writes up on how this works:
MixMobileWebSitesWithASPNETMVCAndTheMobileBrowserDefinitionFile
TheWeeklySourceCode28IPhoneWithASPNETMVCEdition
iUI is based on HTML5 and CSS3. So yes, it will work on any device / desktop browser since it supports HTML5 and CSS3. Actually, only Webkit (Safari/Chrome/iPhone/Android) has a pretty good support of it, and Firefox 3.6 supports most of it too. Fennec 1.0 will.
Haven't heard if it was planned for IE9. Sure IE8 does not.
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I'm trying to implement some CSS animations in a phone gap project. The animations run fine on an iOS device but not on my Android. In fact some things like dashed borders aren't even rendering.
Do I need any special vender prefixes for Android within a phonegap project?
PhoneGap uses native browser engines. So in android, it uses WebKit.
From PhoneGap
web view used by PhoneGap is the same web view used by the native
operating system.On iOS, this is the Objective-C UIWebView class; on
Android, this is android.webkit.WebView.Since there are differences in
the web view rendering engines between operating systems, make sure
that you account for this in your UI
This tutorial may be helpful for you. It shows how to target for specific browser(means specific render engine).
Hope this helps!
Take care because since version 4.4 (only) Android does use a Chromium based webview (I think before it was simply a webkit-based webview).
The WebView prior to 4.4 has a bad reputation as far as I've read.
This is another reason to use the Crosswalk project which has a Cordova plugin and permits to embed a specific version of Chromium, so that all your apps are using the same WebView engine no matter the SDK (a a cost of a big APK)
I want to create an ASP.NET web site. I have not been using ASP.NET for quite a while and I need help. As you know already there is an IE9 mobile browser for Windows phone, I have these questions:
1) Which version of ASP.NET is supported by the IE 9 mobile browser in Windows phone? I means all the output of html is ok.
2) Can all controls in all versions of ASP.NET be used for the IE9 mobile browser?
3) What di I need to set in the Declaration part < !Doctype.......> in my ASP.NET pages ? Will ASP.NET output it according for IE9 MObile Browser?
4) Does the Div control work ? Will this work Div.html = "........html ...."
5) What should not be used from ASP.NET for the IE 9 mobile browser?
6) How do I make the fontsize bigger or which fontsize is best for Wp screen?
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I have ASP.NET V1.1 with JQuery ( not the latest) , My Windows phone 7 HD7 can not work with the JQuery? Does JQuery have diff version for mobile than ASP.NET?
Any info on what version of Html spit out by ASP.NET V1.1,2.0, to the ASP.NET 4.0??
Using Plain HTML wont help much on the server for many server tasks.
Any resource link on how to build aspnet for windows phone 7 would be appreciated.
See the Web Development for Windows Phone details on MSDN as it provides specific guidance on developing for the phone and details of what is not supported on the phone (but is in the full version of IE9).
The phone uses the same code base for the rendering and javascript engine as the desktop version of IE9 does so most things should work.
If you're build a site specifically targetting the phone you will probably see better results if using jQueryMobile rather than the full version but be sure to test fully.
I'd recommend building a HTML 5 site rather than any (X)HTML 4 variation. The browser supports a lot of the newer functionality and you'll get a cleaner layout as well as backwards compatibility for other devices.
You'll also find lots of useful relevant articles at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/iemobile/ and http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/tags/ie9/
ASP.NET is a server side technology so it is not related or constrained by the client devices which access to it, you can use Windows based computers, ITab, Max, Linux, Android, Windows Phone 7, Blackberry phones... to connect to the web site and in any case all the server side processing is performed on the web server (or other back end app servers depending on configuration), on the clients will only arrive html to be rendered and this could contain javascript to be executed locally.
in general modern mobile browsers are very good, I had the best experience with Android devices on mobile devices, which run some kind of Chrome compatible browser, iPhones and iPads run safari, also available for PC and Mac.
if you test your application from a PC with multiple browsers like Chrome, Safari and IE and everything works fine, it will most likely work fine, in general JavaScript abstraction libraries are used to write fully cross browser and cross platform javascript, one of the most popular is JQuery.
I am convinced that the version of IE9 (or similar one, it's not 100% the same IE9 of desktops) included in Windows Phone is probably advanced enough to support all HTML 4 tags and probably has a very advanced Javascript engine as well.
To detect from the server which user agent (device, browser) is connected and render different content or format layout with specific style sheets, check this question here in SO:
how to detect a mobile phone in a web application
I am creating mobile application in asp.net webform targeting IPhone, Android and blackberry. I am using JQuery-Mobile for the same.
Below is my first page I have developed with jquery-mobile.
I don't have iphone, android and blackberry. So my questions are:
Best Simulator I can use on windows XP/ Windows Server 2008 for Iphone, Andriod and Blackberry
Also, when I am running the application on the browser it is looking wierd. I mean textbox size, buttons. Is this the way it looks on normal webpage or it's my faulty design?
As I am developing application in asp.net, do I need to install latest browser which support HTML5 and CSS3 because below browser is IE7.
An old IE is not the best choice to test the capabilities of a HTML5+javascript framework...
For daily basis it's quite ok to use Firefox or any WebKit based browser (chrome, safari ...)
Emulators are very helpful, but to be sure your product works well you will probably need to give it a try on an actual device. I have already seen some reports of problems that show up only when working with the real device.
A team that I do some JQM stuff for has bought a cheap old ipod touch for testing. It's the most demanding apple product you can get. It has the oldest browser, causes most problems and is the slowest. Best choice! :)
Emulator for Android
Simulators for Blackberry
I'm sure Apple has one too - but I think you need to register as a iOS developer before you can get your hands on it. I believe using third-party iOS emulators is against Apple's policy.
I've got a web app targeting .net 3.5 and im trying to render browser specific content, specifically targeting iPads. I've visited my page from various browsers including iPhone, iPad, Chrome, Safari and the Request.Browser variables always seem to be wrong. Apologies for the rant, I thought this was a .Net feature that worked out of the box.
This feature can be made to work by copying .browser files into your application App_Browsers folder. By default they live in %SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\version\CONFIG\Browsers.
Even still for some reason it was not detecting the different browsers that I was using, however I discovered the OceanAppleWebkit.browser by Owen Brady which worked immaculately for my purposes. It may be a bit dated by now but if you know of any updated sources for .browser files it would be appreciated if you post a comment with a link. Thanks!
http://owenbrady.net/browsercaps/
Is there a list of mobile browsers which I must support and test for?
There are so many mobile devices and browser, it may not be possible to test for all and support all.
Yahoo made a list for Desktop browsers http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/articles/gbs/
Does anyone knows any suggested browsers list like this for Mobile browsers.
No.
It's up to you what devices you want to support. But probably, depending on what you do, you should look into some sort of 3rd party lib to help you. Maybe you'll be interested in DeviceAtlas or WURFL.
ASP.Net has browser capability detection built in via the System.Web.HttpBrowserCapabilities class. MSDN did a decent write up a while back on how to use it.
The Mobile Device Browser File is an updated data file on Codeplex for the browser capabilities subsystem with profiles for tons of new mobile devices.
While the MDBF is a giant XML file, it will tell you not only what mobile devices .net is aware of, but their capabilities too.