However there are stumbling blocks to their usability. The most obvious problem is the small screen and the large complex pages of standard Manage 2000 web function pages. A little further examination reveals navigation problems in the drop down menus. These are rendered by Infragistics UltraWebMenu controls which do not work properly with WebKit based browsers. Another issue to consider is performance when accessing the net through slower connections. (How many G's are there in T1?)
So, though you can go the discount route and setup phone desktop buttons to target specific standard Manage 2000 web functions, a little more work can lead to a much better user experience.
The road map to a better user experience includes replacing the standard heading banner with a navigation app based on IUI, WebApp.Net, or Sencha Touch. The menus should still be administerable in MENU.BUILD, but the whole mobile menu tree would get loaded to the mobile browser as a multi-layer page with anchor navigation between layers. This would provide the user with rapid menu navigation including familiar slide transitions and header navigation buttons.
Functions would work off of standard hyperlinks and load and postback in their usual fashion. Though any specific mobile web function development should consider leveraging the layer tools in these micro-frameworks. Other mobile web function best practices would include avoiding the IG Grid in lieu of lighter weight options, minimizing the information displayed in any given layer to 5-7 items and providing multiple choice data entry in place of fill in the blank wherever possible.
Sizing the formatting table to 480 x 320 can help give a design time feel for mobile screen territory at standard magnification. HTML meta tags like <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0;" /> can be used to control the magnification level of the web function when initially displayed. Since these micro frameworks tend to use CSS hiding techniques they interfere with the design time WSYIWYG in Visual Studio. You can temporarily comment out the stylesheet link in the aspx file to get a better designer experience.
