[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] About Evergreen OPAC for Mobile Devices

Tony Bandy tonyb at ohionet.org
Thu Feb 12 12:49:30 EST 2015 

Hi Ben, Kathy, Suzanne, folks,

This helps quite a bit!  I will go ahead and file a bug report and then see if we can hack something together!  I’m not a developer but if I come up with something, I will add it to the bug report.  I just wasn’t sure how other folks were approaching this….

Really appreciate it!

Thanks,

--Tony


From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Ben Shum
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 12:30 PM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] About Evergreen OPAC for Mobile Devices


Kathy also reminded me that we do have multiple media query already. One kicks in at 600px, but also one at 800px. So there's a lot of ground to cover here.

-- Ben

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On Feb 12, 2015 9:23 AM, "Kathy Lussier" <klussier at masslnc.org<mailto:klussier at masslnc.org>> wrote:
Good information Ben!

Tony, I also don't think it's a bad idea to file a LP bug on this issue in case somebody can look at it before a hackfest happens. Also, if you follow up on Ben's suggestion and adjust your own CSS so that it works better, that change is something you could submit on the bug.

Kathy

On 02/12/2015 12:15 PM, Ben Shum wrote:
Hi Tony,

So admittedly, the first work done in this area, we had to select a
resolution to begin writing mobile view for and it was 600px  (you can
see this in the style.css.tt2 file).  So if you're viewing at 615 px,
it will not kick in the mobile view version, of course.  At 600 or
less, it will kick in the mobile CSS.

Long-term, I do believe that we need work to enhance the catalog to
support multiple viewing resolutions.  And there is Dan Scott's filed
bug to deal with designing with mobile in mind first
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1413730).  Not sure where
that's headed yet, but keeping more mobile views than just smartphones
seems like a good thing to do.

In the meantime, you can adjust when mobile kicks in (what if you
wanted it at 650 px?) by changing the CSS file for TPAC.  Or you can
help start creating a good middle sized CSS for view on slightly
larger environments, like tablets.

Continuing work on mobile responsiveness was a project idea during OPW
last time (http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=opw#project_ideas)
and I can see it being a good project for a future Hackfest session or
Hack-A-Way too.

-- Ben

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Tony Bandy <tonyb at ohionet.org<mailto:tonyb at ohionet.org>> wrote:
Hi Kathy, folks,



Thanks much for the note!



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For the most part, the general TPAC looks pretty decent when viewed on a
mobile device, but we’re noticing that when logging in to check your
personal account, the display is a little wide—the user has to scroll to the
right to view the entire box.



Also, once logged in, and this is the biggest issue we’ve seen, the lists of
items that are checked out are all, for the lack of a better term, “all
squashed together”….  J J when you get below a certain pixel count on the
screen, say around 615px.



I’m not sure if this list accepts attachments, but I’ve attached a
simulation of what it looks like.  Maybe this is just us?  I just wasn’t
sure what approach other folks were working on and if anyone had encountered
this before….



Thanks again for any thoughts as you have time….I can open a bug if everyone
thinks this might be the way to go….



--Tony





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Kathy Lussier
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Hi Tony,

There is an existing bug with the My Lists area of the catalog -
https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1353509.

What are the specific issues you've experienced?

Kathy

On 02/12/2015 11:19 AM, Tony Bandy wrote:

Hi all,



Just to follow-up a bit with the conversation from earlier this week, has
anyone else experienced any issues with the My Account portion of the TPAC
on mobile devices?  I was going to file a bug report, but wanted to check-in
first and see if anyone had experienced these issues and had a workaround,
update, etc.



Any thoughts on this would be super….



--Tony





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Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] About Evergreen OPAC for Mobile Devices



Development was done for Evergreen release 2.6 to bring the catalog into
better compliance with WCAG 2.0.

Work was also done for Evergreen 2.5 to make most catalog interfaces more
responsive, optimizing the display of mobile devices. There may have been
some interfaces that we missed, but if there is any screen that isn't
displaying well on a mobile device, I recommend filing a bug in Launchpad at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen to let the developers know. There's a
nice blog post about the project at
http://evergreen-ils.org/hackaway13-mobile-catalog/.

I hope this helps!

Kathy

On 02/10/2015 01:55 PM, Rita.Liu at statcan.gc.ca<mailto:Rita.Liu at statcan.gc.ca> wrote:

Good afternoon,



Just wondering is there any development for Evergreen OPAC  optimizing
websites and applications for mobile devices?



Will it meet the technical specifications for the Web and mobile presence,
ensure that each device-based mobile application meets all five WCAG 2.0
conformance requirements? For the purposes of this standard, requirements of
applying to Web pages equally applying to device-based mobile applications
screens, such as Web Experience Toolkit (WET4)?



Thanks,



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