At the University of Texas at Arlington Michael

At the University of Texas at Arlington Michael Doran, Systems Librarian University of Texas at Arlington doran@uta. edu Voyager Developer Meeting March 9 -10, 2011 Chicago, IL

Beginnings

December 2002 “an interesting project to take a copy of [Web. Voyage] and strip it down so that it would be functional from within the Pocket PC version of Internet Explorer”

February 2003 Shelf. Lister version 1. 0 for PDAs 2

Shelf. Lister version 1. 0 for PDAs 2

Smartphones

June 2007: The i. Phone October 2008: Android phones

some context mobile apps e. g. for i. Phone native apps web apps ü ü ü written in Cocoa/Objective-C ü must be approved by Apple ü downloaded from App Store back-end programming in any language output in HTML/CSS/Java. Script web browser is client can be accessed on any smart phone

some context W 3 C standards compliant • no framesets, or • unsupported technologies (e. g. Flash, Java Applets) mobile web apps Leveraging frameworks like: • i. UI • i. Web. Kit • j. QTouch compatible with mobile devices optimized for mobile devices looks and behaves like a native app

i. UI i. Web. Kit j. QTouch

“Mobilize, don’t miniaturize”

Shelf. Lister version 2. 0 September 2009

Shelf. Lister version 2. 0 September 2009

http: //pulse. uta. edu/vwebv/schedule. cgi

http: //pulse. uta. edu/vwebv/qr. cgi May 2010

s e g a n ig

Problem

typical single-interface that-does-everything OPAC a good mobile web app

http: //pulse. uta. edu/vwebv/m/

http: //pulse. uta. edu/vwebv/m/

http: //pulse. uta. edu/vwebv/m/

http: //pulse. uta. edu/vwebv/m/

http: //pulse. uta. edu/vwebv/m/

http: //pulse. uta. edu/vwebv/m/

http: //pulse. uta. edu/vwebv/m/

http: //pulse. uta. edu/vwebv/m/

The Code

http: //rocky. uta. edu/doran/

http: //www. exlibrisgroup. org/pages/viewpage. action? page. Id=13764440 Voyager sites that have gone live with Tomcat Web. Voyáge

Tools

SDK emulators/simulators

SDK emulators/simulators

Skipping

ü Device/user-agent detection ü yadda http: //www. delicious. com/michaeldoran/mobile

Coming

Multilingual Version

Multilingual Version

wire frames stencil for i. Phone web application design THE END courtesy of http: //theresaneil. wordpress. com