[Building Sakai] Some UX issues on Android smartphones

[Thomas Amsler]

We should evaluate if it's feasible to redirect known mobile OSs to the pda
portal if it's active? I personally think that we need to pay more attention
to mobile OSs.
Best,
-- Thomas


On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 7:37 AM, David Horwitz <david.horwitz at uct.ac.za>wrote:

> Hi Mathieu,
>
> Do you enable the PDA portal? This is much better than the default for
> small devices
>
> {mysakaiinstall}/portal/pda/
>
>
> D
>
> 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
> >
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