[barees]

Hi All,

I have been tasked with creating a Blackberry version of an ASP.NET web application and I have hit a bit of a brick wall with basic layout. Does anyone know of any way at all to produce a table-like layout that does not wrap within cells? ie. I want a row/column layout with a single line per row with text trimmed to fit within columns.

I have discovered that there is no real support for CSS positioning so I've resorted to HTML table layout using fixed table layout but I cannot find a way to prevent wrapping..

Any suggestions?
TIA!
BRuce

[brcewane]

Ok.. a couple of things...

One, by default Table, CSS, and JavaScript are disabled in the blackberry browser. Make sure you have them turned on by going to the Browser options.

And second, there isn't a registration for Blackberry in the ASP.NET mobile controls. Check out this KB article on how to register the BlackBerry browser capability for ASP.NET 2.0 Livelink - Redirection

[barees]

Thanks for the reply, I have enabled those things.. I also created the blackberry browser file but I'm not really using built-in ASP.NET server controls, I'm creating custom server controls which render specifically for the blackberry, I have also read the developer guidelines PDF for the current blackberry browsers.. I was just surpirsed at how limited the CSS/Javascript support is.. I understand what the "Mobile View" is trying to achieve but I would have thought if I used media="handheld" in a stylesheet that a 2007 browser would be a bit smarter

[Perfect Storm]

As mentioned, by default stylesheets and javascript are off, so most users will not have them available.

The device does support SVG which when used correctly with a backend can create desktop-like pages which always display the same on the device right out of the box.

[barees]

Thanks for that, that was going to be my next question.. I know how to tell if Javascript is on but what about HTML table support? Is there any way to determine via javascript if tables are enabled?

SVG sounds like an interesting option but I think at that point I would probably just create a Java application instead. For now it looks like we are going forward with a pretty simple WAP-style layout.