Mobile Version of Bungeni

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1 Problem Statement 
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The Bungeni user interface has been designed to work with desktop web browsers. 
A separate user interface is required to work with mobile browsers

2 Summary 
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Bungeni pages and views make use of javasript and css -- and additionally the 
pages make use of ajax for presenting listings.

This affects mobile support in different ways :

  * The kind of mobile browser supported
  * The kind of functionality supported via a mobile

3 Mobile Browser Support
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 3.1 Mobile browsers in lower end phones tend not to support javascript/ajax or the kind of css used in Bungeni. 

 - Current listings in bungeni and some pages make use of ajax and javascript and will most likely not work in these browsers

 3.2 Smart phone browsers - especially in android phones and iphones have support for javascript/ajax and desktop browser css.

 - Clearly we should support these browsers -- since most phones in the future will be smart phones.

 - It might be feasible to make the current listings and pages with ajax/javascript/css compatible with these mobile browsers

4 Functionality
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  * 4.1 - only anonymous access - users can only a restricted set of information using the mobile site - for e.g. browsing motions and questions. 

    -  Clearly this is neccessary

  * 4.2 - active functionality - e.g. allowing MPs to login and submit motions over the phone. 

    -  Is this desirable ?

5 Bungeni Support for mobile
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  * Simply modifying the theme to have a mobile "skin" is clearly not going to be enough to support mobile browsers as the technology (ajax/ javascript/ css ) used on the pages is incompatible with mobile browsers

  * A "micro-site" application on Bungeni is required for specific mobile functionality. This micro-site will load mobile browser specific css in the UI -- and also have views and page templates which dont make use of javascript/ajax. Alternatively the mobile application could simply be a lightweight view built on the rss and xml feeds from bungeni. 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ashok.ha...@gmail.com on 24 Jun 2011 at 8:24

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http://jquerymobile.com/

js framework for smartphones and tablets

Original comment by ashok.ha...@gmail.com on 29 Jun 2011 at 7:05

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Closing All these issues -- As the list is being updated to match with the 
whiteboard backlog.

Original comment by ashok.ha...@gmail.com on 7 Sep 2012 at 7:57

• Changed state: Closed