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Blackberry phones not rendering mobile websites

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 2:27 pm
by anilsojitra

Are Blackberry phones supposed to render mobile websites as well as iOS/Android?

I have built a mobile website for a client which can be found here:

http://www.dunsterholidaycottage.co.u...

It's not rendering as designed and the button clicks aren't working

Please can you help?

Thanks

Anil


Blackberry phones not rendering mobile websites

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 3:09 pm
by anilsojitra

I tried it on a Blackberry 9380 Simulator and although it displayed the index page, the following was not working:

  1. background colour

  2. list control - background colours missing and unable to click list items - clicking any of the button returns back to the top of the home page

  3. button and image clicking events don't seem to work

    My client has a Blackberry Curve and is keen to see it work on that.

    I read the following on the Jquery site for Blackberry 5 site:

    "This platform has B grade support which means that all the enhanced styles and widgets work well within the CSS capabilities of the device, but Ajax navigation and page transitions aren’t supported so links and form submits result in a full page refresh.

    Ajax navigation was problematic on BB5 because it lacks hashchange support for the history stack whcih essentially broke the back button behavior so disabling this feature resolves that issue and also speeds up the user experience. These devices tend to be fairly under-powered so very complex pages can take a bit longer to render but overlaly it works very well. There are of a few style improvements we need to tidy up, but sites built with jQuery Mobile should now work well on this platform."


Blackberry phones not rendering mobile websites

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 7:37 pm
by maxkatz

I tested on BlackBerry PlayBook 2.0 - it seemed to work fine. I'll have our dev. team test on BlackBerry phones. I'll update here.


Blackberry phones not rendering mobile websites

Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 9:46 am
by anilsojitra

Thanks Max.

As a bit of extra info I navigated to another one of my tiggzi projects which uses a standard blue theme (www.liketohelp.com/mobile) on the Blackberry and it displayed fine.

However, selecting from the list control item still doesn't work. The title tag seems to change to the selected page but it doesn't take you to the page. If I go to the page directly (www.liketohelp.com/mobile/screen-A20B...) then it display fine. The collapsable block works and the list control at the bottom of that page works. I think it's because those list control items link to external URLs.

So the problem seems to be when list control items link to another page within the project it doesn't navigate to the page on a Blackberry phone. I have set the transition effect to Default.

Thanks very much for your help.


Blackberry phones not rendering mobile websites

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 9:56 am
by anilsojitra

Please can you provide an update on this?

Thanks

Anil


Blackberry phones not rendering mobile websites

Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:11 pm
by maxkatz

See reply here: http://gsfn.us/t/2nwc8


Blackberry phones not rendering mobile websites

Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 8:32 am
by anilsojitra

I'm afraid that Url isn't working (http://gsfn.us/t/2nwc8)


Blackberry phones not rendering mobile websites

Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 8:36 am
by maxkatz

It works for me, but here is the direct link: https://getsatisfaction.com/tiggzi/to...


Blackberry phones not rendering mobile websites

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 11:26 am
by anilsojitra

Hi,

The Blackberry Curve model number is:

Blackberry 9300 v5.0.0.977 (platform 6.3.0.6.3)

I would be grateful if you are able to test it on that version and let me know whether the custom theme and navigation is working.

Thanks


Blackberry phones not rendering mobile websites

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 1:25 am
by Jgc

Have you tried putting your mobile site address into an iFrame tag via the Panel widget? That worked for me. ;-)