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Guys,
Its sort of an umbraco question. I have existing umbraco site and we are serving up podcasts (using warrens excellent podcast package for the itunes stuff). What we were also looking to do is creating a subsite within that site and serving up those videos for mobile phones. Has anyone else tried this sort of thing.
My research so far is:
1. create web pages with cut down templates minimal furniture etc so mobile phone friendly
2. serve up the videos as 3gp format so that any phone that is MMS compatible will be able to view
3. Possibly have 3 screen resolutions to cater for as many screen sizes as possible
4. If videos very big then use streaming video server provider
Anyone else any comments ideas? Anyone know any online phone emulators?
The issue is that phones come in so many shapes and sizes its getting the fits most scenario.
Regards
Ismail
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Ismail. I do remember that there were some .net mobile controls which take care of a lot of the mobile device browser capabilities for you.
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Darren, Cheers for that pointer i got a bit of reading to do http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/MobileWebAppSecret.aspxhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.mobilecontrols.aspxhttp://www.asp.net/mobile/http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/z8h56a3f(VS.80).aspx One thing to note becuase the page is inheriting from MobilePage and the fact that its a page not usercontrol you could not integrate directly with umbraco. I will probably need to hack where i want to pull my media files from etc. Regards Ismail
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