[gatein-dev] Mobile Site Update

[Julien Viet]

Hi Matt,

someone from Trong's team will look at Tomcat configuration for this

On Mar 8, 2013, at 12:09 AM, Matt Wringe <mwringe at redhat.com> wrote:

> We have had a redirect to a 'mobile' site, but no actual mobile site has 
> actually existed yet. We have been working on creating a mobile friendly 
> site for this task, and have some good progress on it. Its not perfect 
> and has a lot of limitations (and lots of hacks) but I think its time to 
> get some feedback on how it currently setup and how we can move forward 
> to get this working better and improved. There are some things that we 
> should be able to change in the core GateIn code to get things working 
> better and allow us to remove some of the hacks we had to use.
> 
> The current code resides at 
> https://github.com/mwringe/gatein-portal/tree/mobile and I have created 
> a PR (https://github.com/gatein/gatein-portal/pull/346)
> 
> A couple of points:
> 
> - the mobile site is deployed as an extension on AS7 (currently don't 
> know how this should be handled in tomcat). So you wont see the mobile 
> site if you are not running on JBoss AS7.
> 
> - redirects are no longer configured in gatein by default. The mobile 
> extension adds in default redirection rules. If you are using a mobile 
> device, you should be automatically redirected to the mobile site 
> instead of the 'classic' site.
> 
> - the site is designed to be fluidly responsive. Try changing the width 
> (and height) of the page to noticed the changes.
> 
> - mobile specific components are located in their own mobile-integration 
> module. I have tried to keep as much of the code as separate from the 
> other main gatein code.
> 
> - the shared layout has been set as hidden when using the mobile site, 
> we have a header portlet which takes care of a lot of similar functionality.
> 
> - its still uses some of the original webui components (but skinned 
> differently, ie language selector, login, etc...) but most of the 
> portlets on the page are newly rewritten portlets.
> 
> - we don't currently have any plans on rewriting all the admin portlets, 
> so administration functionality has to be done from the classic portlet 
> using things like the portal and site navigators.
> 
> - its still a work in progress and there is still a lot of work to do to 
> get it working better.
> 
> Looking forward to opinions and comments. More updates to follow soon,
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matt Wringe
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