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[kingdom master]

i use a shopping software on my site
my site

but i cant view it on the e100, do u think that 2003 will allow it to be viewed or is there some programming available to help?

i dont want to shut out smart device customers.


regards
tom

[statscat]

Hiya,

the notes shipped with the  EVC 4.0 SDK would lead me to believe that IE now handles pop up windows, not as popups as they become the new page but only if the user clicked on the link to make it happen.


You might considere browser sniffing to differentiate between PCs and phones visiting your iste and serve up more phone friendly pages.


Having just checked your site, its the use of frames that will kill it on either device, you need a no frame version for any of the Smartphone series to view it (though the popups should be ok on 03).

ALso theres a lot of javascript with PIE has limitited support for if any (I think understand a subset of JScript).

More information on designing sites for smartphones can be found in the SDK (Software Developmenet Kit) that you can download for free from

www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/

(look for the download links)

[NeilC_MVP]

Depending on where you are planning to target your site, you might want to take a look into ASP.NET Mobile Controls. This is especially if you site is going to have database backend. ASP.NET Mobile Controls allow you to develop ASP.NET websites that target over 100 internet-enabled devices, including the Windows Mobile platform.

[Macker1973]

The problem with using ASP .Net and mobile controls is it limits your web page to campatable browsers.

The Java VM is a much better solution. We always go for Java as it allowss support for Netscape and Opera etc. Most of our customers are using Apache web servers and with Opera becoming the defacto browser in e-machines the question you have to ask is do you want to limit yuorself to a Microscoft only solution.

[spacemonkey]

While that's all true (and I hate to be pro microsoft) most ASP.Net code when it hits the front end device is HTML and javascript.  The mobile controls cuts it down even more to being standard HTML.  So even though compatability can be limited, this will only happen when you use some of the naughty javascript commands that are brower specific.

But, you mention Apache, ASP.Net won't run on that

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The problem with using ASP .Net and mobile controls is it limits your web page to campatable browsers. 

The Java VM is a much better solution. We always go for Java as it allowss support for Netscape and Opera etc. Most of our customers are using Apache web servers and with Opera becoming the defacto browser in e-machines the question you have to ask is do you want to limit yuorself to a Microscoft only solution.

[statscat]

LOL

I have to say that if you want to do a good job then you need to do its yourself,

its just a matter of creating the  appropriate templates and serving them. I prefer PHP as its open source stable and flexible.

I guess it all depends on where your skills lie, but its always better to do the template yourself