[Building Sakai] Some UX issues on Android smartphones

[David Horwitz]

Hi Mathieu,

Do you enable the PDA portal? This is much better than the default for
small devices

{mysakaiinstall}/portal/pda/


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On 08/20/2010 04:25 PM, Mathieu Plourde wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm sending this message around to see if something is on its way in
> order to support mobile OSs for Sakai. At Delaware, we have stumbled
> upon two annoyances already without even digging.
>
> 1) The "My Active Sites" overlay shows up, but links are not
> accessible. If you try to click somewhere to access a site in the
> list, the whole box blinks, and nothing happens. The workaround is to
> go to "My Workspace>Worksite Setup".
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/mathplourde/4909841675/
>
> 2) In Messages, there is no way to make the cursor show up in the text
> box that uses FCK. All the WYSIWYG buttons are completely useless,
> even the "Source" one. I did not check for other FCK boxes yet.
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/mathplourde/4910450840/in/photostream/
>
> I have seen that there is a sub-group that has been formed to tackle
> mobile issues, but is it even active?
> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/UX/Mobile+UX
>
> Should I turn these two issues into Jira tickets? And what's our
> strategy as a community when it comes to making sure Sakai becomes
> mobile-friendly?
>
> P.S.: We are currently running 2.6.1 and patches in production. My
> phone runs Android OS 2.2 (Froyo) on Verizon.
>
> Mathieu
>