Michael Doran, Systems Librarian
University of Texas at Arlington
doran@uta.edu
Voyager Developer Meeting
March 9-10, 2011
Chicago, IL
Beginnings
December 2002
“an interesting project to take a copy of [WebVoyage]
and strip it down so that it would be functional from
within the Pocket PC version of Internet Explorer”
February 2003
ShelfLister version 1.0 for PDAs
2
ShelfLister version 1.0 for PDAs
2
Smartphones
June 2007: The iPhone
October 2008: Android phones
some context
mobile apps
e.g. for iPhone
native apps
 written in Cocoa/Objective-C
 must be approved by Apple
 downloaded from App Store
web apps
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back-end programming in any language
output in HTML/CSS/JavaScript
web browser is client
can be accessed on any smart phone
some context
W3C standards compliant
• no framesets, or
• unsupported technologies
(e.g. Flash, Java Applets)
mobile web apps
Leveraging frameworks like:
• iUI
• iWebKit
• jQTouch
compatible with
mobile devices
optimized for
mobile devices
looks and behaves
like a native app
iUI
iWebKit
jQTouch
“Mobilize, don’t miniaturize”
ShelfLister version 2.0
September 2009
ShelfLister version 2.0
September 2009
http://pulse.uta.edu/vwebv/schedule.cgi
http://pulse.uta.edu/vwebv/qr.cgi
May 2010
Problem
typical single-interface
that-does-everything OPAC
a good mobile
web app
http://pulse.uta.edu/vwebv/m/
http://pulse.uta.edu/vwebv/m/
http://pulse.uta.edu/vwebv/m/
http://pulse.uta.edu/vwebv/m/
http://pulse.uta.edu/vwebv/m/
http://pulse.uta.edu/vwebv/m/
http://pulse.uta.edu/vwebv/m/
http://pulse.uta.edu/vwebv/m/
The Code
http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/
http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=13764440
Voyager sites that have gone live with Tomcat WebVoyáge
Tools
SDK emulators/simulators
SDK emulators/simulators
Skipping
 Device/user-agent
detection
 yadda
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http://www.delicious.com/michaeldoran/mobile
Coming
Multilingual Version
Multilingual Version
wire frames stencil for iPhone web application design
courtesy of http://theresaneil.wordpress.com