Currently I have my desktop site in umbraco4. The content has inline styles, HTML tags, CSS class names. I am planning to develop a mobile site with same content.
My mobile layout is different from desktop layout so how can I reuse the same content but have a website that looks different on mobile to desktop.
If you use media queries in your css (http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/media-queries-for-standard-devices/) you can target sections of your templates to appear differently on an iphone or ipad or desktop or whatever. You can also hide certain parts.
Another solution is to have an entirely different template for each 'view' eg one for desktop, one for mobile etc - and then use ?alttemplate=xxxx or using the PreInit of default.aspx.cs to switch to the appropriate media template.
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I have been looking all over for templates that are mobile compatible. I understand that people carry the web with them. My present website uses an old css template which does not work well in phones. I found a template here at https://html5up.net/photon
I downloaded this, but I'm having problems integrating it into a masterpage. It is a html page with links to images that are not working. Where can I get a basic masterpage for vb.net that is mobile compatible? It needs to have a nav bar. Thanks.
I am starting a jquery mobile/phonegap application. And would like to know if there is any way I can keep my code in seperate files so it is easier to manage. From all the reading I have done on jquery mobile it looks like all of your pages are in one file and are just seperated by divs like <div data-role="page" id="page-one"></div>. I guess I could try to make some type of a makefile that concatenated them all together, but it seems that most apps are pretty lengthy that they should have a solution for this. Keeping all the code in one file just seems impossible to maintain.
JQuery demo, three pages, all one source file:
http://demos.jquerymobile.com/1.1.0/docs/pages/multipage-template.html
You can just use normal links with jQuery mobile:
http://demos.jquerymobile.com/1.4.0/navigation/
It will "hijack" the link and use transitions to give you a native like animation. As Flatlineato pointed out you need to make each page confirm to the required markup, and you'll need to repeat your headers/footers etc on each included page.
Or you can use more complex solutions to dynamically change the content of your page, which can be stored in multiple files, like this other SO post:
including the header and footer in jquery mobile multiple page site
But I would also agree with Leo and say the jQuery mobile isn't the best choice for Phonegap, it's not that well optimized, and runs slower in the Phonegap webkit view than it does in native safari.
I've also switched to a custom navigation system and dropped jQM early on in my Phonegap development, but that was over a year ago, more recent versions may work better.
I think my personal API is what you are searching for:
https://github.com/charnekin/api
Demo example:
http://yopo.es/cordovapi/
jQuery Mobile allows you to have the pages in separate files. Obviously in each file must conform to the structure of the markup pages.
To point to another page in the link instead of the id you specify the correct file name. If the file then you enter multiple jquery mobile pages must also specify the id.
Is it possible to add an external sheet containing html elements (similar to an external css stylesheet) maybe using the link tag?
The project will have many webpages that have identical elements (for example, a navigation bar) Is there a way I would be able to link to an external file so that I would only have to change one file to spread this change to all of my webpages.
Using just plain HTML, no. Some other options:
You can use a server side scripting language to include files. (Language specific)
Server Side Includes. SSI's are rather limited however.
Templates or Templating Engine (like Smarty). This is the overkill solution to a simple problem, but left here as an option.
Javascript can dynamically generate the content after the page loads.
Depending on your content, sometimes an IFRAME can be used.
What is the purpose of the div 'data-role' option seen in the TriggerIO template files? Am I to assume that I can ignore this and build my app as if I would build a normal website in HTML5? Or do I need to use different tag options in order to initiate CSS selectors and such? There doesn't seem to be much information about the real differences between your TriggerIO apps and how you would write a normal HTML5 app.
I'm creating a children's story app whereby you can view an image and some text, and swipe for the next page). Should I be using canvas to load the images and text or is it best to use the older school img tags and other markup?
The example app that you get when you create a new app using the TriggerToolkit uses jQuery mobile. The data-role attributes are used by jQuery mobile:
In the body, a div with a data-role of page is the wrapper used to delineate a page, and the header bar (data-role="header") and content region (data-role="content") are added inside to create a basic page (these are both optional). These data- attributes are HTML5 attributes used throughout jQuery Mobile to transform basic markup into an enhanced and styled widget.
From: http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.2.0/docs/about/getting-started.html
You can delete all this and use whatever markup, stylesheets and JavaScript you would usually when making a website. I'd definitely recommend using <img> and regular text rather than doing everything in a <canvas>. My advice would be to "try it and see", treating the development as you would a mobile website, but with assets stored locally and the ability to leverage forge APIs.
I would like to develop an interactive XFA form in LiveCycle Designer ES -2 which will support Windows as well as i-Pad. But the problem is when I open an XFA form it does not show the form rather it shows the form can not be shown(If the form has scripts within it).It only shows simple PDF documents in read only format.It also does not show the button in Acroforms.There is no interactivity related with the form.I would like to know is there any way to show the interactive PDf forms?
There is also another solution from SPZAP designed for Microsoft SharePoint and supporting XFA forms in PDFs and in some way in HTML5 compliant browsers. It has a form designer that runs in a browser (html5) and two kinds of runtime that are SharePoint integrated and are displaying PDF either in Adobe Acrobat Reader (probably Foxit in future) or converted as html5 structure (with some limitations in latter case). http://www.pdfsharepoint.com
LiveCycle Mobile ES4.0 will be able to render your forms. The look will be similar to HTML rendering.
http://www.adobe.com/products/livecycle/mobile/
The built-in pdf reader doesn't support dynamic PDF forms, Adobe doesn't have an iOS client and iPad doesn't support flash (natively).
Your only option is to render the form as HTML using LiveCycle Forms ES (server module).
You cannot render an interactive form in iPad as pdf. Reason being Apple doesn't allow any application (except web browser) to run any kind of scripts inside it (In this case Acrobat application, trying to run Javascript).
But you can render it as HTML which can be rendered in a browser and has some strip out functionality than the pdf version but its worth to try.