Mobile Home Page Finished

The home page for the mobile site is finally finished. It wasn't that hard to edit for the most part--it took a lot to get it to work in the Windows Mobile Internet Explorer, though. The finished product is to the left. Yeah, it still has an ugly white space in the navList. Unfortunately there was no workaround for this. It took long enough just to get that OpenMRS logo in the corner to stay in the corner. Windows Mobile IE has no support for the position property in CSS.

In order to get this to work we had to float that Log In bar in the corner:

#userBar {
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
right: 0px;
float: right;
width: 60%;
text-align: right;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
z-index: 5;
color: #333333;
line-height: 26px;
background-color: #ffffff;
}

Then we had to float the image left:

#banner img{
height: 1.25em;
float: left;
margin: 5px 0 0 0;
padding-top: 0px;
}

When that was all done, I played for a while trying to get that white space to go away to no avail. It is functional now though and it looks sufficiently good.

Emulators

JK and I have been working on setting up emulators for testing our mobile pages in. We have Windows Mobile and Blackberry emulators configured, and we have an Android emulator that we don't have ready yet.

Google Image Swirl

Google has a new experiment to toy around with: http://image-swirl.googlelabs.com/. Image Swirl sorts images contextually and offers a much cleaner GUI for searching through the results. It is only a demo right now, but it looks promising.

Mobile Emulators

Yesterday, JK and I went on a hunt for smartphone emulators online. JK installed a Blackberry emulator that he is having trouble configuring. I installed the Windows Mobile 6 emulator. I will also have to install Virtual PC 2007 in order to enable the wireless feature of the emulator. I have not yet done that, though the setup is sitting in my Shared Documents.

Mobile Project: Now It's Ours

Thanks to the help of Ben Wolfe, my partner and I now are assigned to the mobile project (ticket #1778). We have just barely begun planning, so we don't have much yet. We're looking at our options with the graphics.

You Can't Sing! Hackers, You Can't Sing!

The Free Software Song...great idea, but no one has performed it well yet. At least, not that I have found. Let's not even mention Stallman here.

Creativity Is Elusive

From his vast wellspring of ideas, my partner created his blog at Non-Super Magnet Room. The funny thing is, even that wasn't his idea. It was our professor's. Regardless, you may find cross-referencing my and his posts useful from time to time.