[commits] [Wiki] created: Doc/Dev/SmartMobileView

[Ralf Lang (B1 Systems GmbH)]

rlang  Wed, 08 Jul 2020 09:50:13 +0000

Created page: https://wiki.horde.org/Doc/Dev/SmartMobileView

+ SmartMobile View

++ Understanding Horde View Modes

Horde supports a set of different presentation modes for different  
usage scenarios.

* Basic Mode - Basic Mode is considered to be present in all Horde  
apps. It is a desktop oriented presentation based mostly on  
server-generated page contents and full page reloads on any event
* Dynamic Mode - Dynamic Mode is an improvement over Basic Mode,  
updating only parts of the screen and relying on Ajax to provide JSON  
data or view partials to update on actions. This allows implementing  
Single Page Application (SPA) UIs.
* Minimal Mode - Strips most of the CSS layout and graphics to provide  
a low-bandwidth experience. Historically this was used for phone  
browsers.
* Smartmobile Mode - Smartmobile Mode is optimized for touch based  
devices like smartphone and tablet.

Minimal mode may be phased out in future releases and some features  
only exist in dynamic mode with no intention to backport them to basic  
mode. In some apps, Basic and Dynamic behave the same and have been  
merged.

++ Apps without SmartMobile View

++ Implementing SmartMobile View

+++ Announcing SmartMobile Capability

An App's features array in the $App_Application class must contain a  
non-null value for the key 'smartmobileView' to announce the  
capability. This will move the app from the "Regular Apps" ledger to  
the "Mobile Optimized Apps" ledger in the SmartMobile portal view.

+++ Implementing a SmartMobile ready topbar
+++ Implementing menus and headers

+++ Notable Differences to dynamic

* SmartMobile environment normally doesn't initialize PrototypeJS and  
Scriptaculous but it loads jQuery and jQuery Mobile.