Hi,

I am Anthony Colebourne from The University of Manchester. I am the 
technical lead on our Portal service (based on uPortal).

We will shortly be looking into deploying a mobile skin for our Portal 
so I'm just getting interested in this technology.

Here are some links you might find interesting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NshUldCAyJ8
http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Mobile+FSS+API
http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Mobile+web+development+notes

Thanks,
Anthony.


Alexander Dutton wrote:
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> Dear all,
> 
> Welcome! It seems that subscriptions are slowing, making this a good
> time to express my consternation at just how many people have an
> interest in this area. I'll start with some background, but feel free to
> disregard or disagree as necessary!
> 
> 
> There seem to be a lot of HE institutions involved in mobile
> technologies in one way or another. A fair few have produced
> mobile-friendly web portals or iPhone applications. Others are realising
> that users are increasingly using PC-oriented services from a mobile
> device, and are seeking to improve access for those on the move.
> 
> Our team at Oxford have been making connections with other institutions
> to share information, ideas and code. However, to a certain extent these
> connections have been serendipitous and their results haven't been able
> to be fed back to the larger community.
> 
> This list is (initially) intended to be a forum to discuss any and all
> aspects of catering for mobile users in a HE setting. A non-exhaustive
> list of things you may wish to discuss is:
> 
> * mobile computing
> * mobile websites
> * mobile application development
> * increasing and improving access to services from mobile devices
> * mobile browser and capabilities detection
> * mobile-friendly CSS
> * inter-institutional collaboration and code-sharing
> * geolocation and mapping
> 
> The following aspects of the above topics might also be worth some
> discussion:
> 
> * design
> * implementation
> * testing
> * best practice
> * success (or otherwise) stories
> 
> These lists are obviously not prescriptive!
> 
> 
> To get things started, I'd like to encourage people to give us a small
> description of what mobile-related projects they're working on. I'll
> post about what we're up to here shortly, but feel free to post
> something in the meantime.
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
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> Alexander Dutton
> Erewhon Project Officer | m.ox.ac.uk developer
> Oxford University Computing Services, ℡ 01865 (6)13483
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