Re: [sahana-maindev] SAHANA mobile version (J2ME application or WEB based ..?)

[Ravindra De S. <rav...@op...>]

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 14:54 +0600, Prabhath Sirisena wrote:

> Before moving on to WML it would be a good idea to check Sahana
> usability in an xhtml enabled mobile browser - 
+ 1
> AFAIK, WML is a dead
this is certainly true
> it makes little sense to create a
> mobile-specific system.
yes i think a lot of overhead lies in the CSS and by sacrificing
a nice GUI we can save a lot of user bandwith

> However, if it's observed that the Sahana interfaces are too
> cumbersome to be filled via a mobile browser (the amount of data to be
> filled in, not the page load, as pages are as lean as possible atm),
> it would be a good idea to have a scaled down version (in xhtml, not
> wml).
hmm , yes may be we leave out optional data or seperate them from
mandatory data ,and only if the user requests download optional data
forms. 
btw i think we can hide/show fields using CSS by using a tag for
optional data without much difficulty.
so i think this scaled down version is a good idea and we must
brainstorm how to do that with less additional coding as possible.

cheers

ravindra