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

[Tony Bandy]

Morning Dan, folks,

Thanks so much—and I apologize for all the bother.  But I have learned a lot about running EG on mobile devices and I appreciate everyone’s help!

--Tony

From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Dan Scott
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 9:21 AM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] About Evergreen OPAC for Mobile Devices

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Tony Bandy <tonyb at ohionet.org<mailto:tonyb at ohionet.org>> wrote:
Hi Dan, folks,

Thanks for the note!  Currently we’re running 2.7.2 of Evergreen.  I know we have been working with the CSS to adjust colors, and the table for checked out items for this particular library, but I wasn’t sure if that would affect the whole display?  I have been using Quirk Tools Screenfly (http://quirktools.com/screenfly/) for testing parts of our TPAC.

The mobile catalog, searching, viewing results, etc. all look pretty good, however, when  a user logs in to their account for this particular library and goes to look at their checked out items, the formatting gets a little “squashed”.  I just added this information on to the LP bug you had opened previously about mobile development.  I’ve attached a screenshot that shows this.  Anything above 600px looks ok (Other Example).  The screenshot (Example One) is from an iPhone 5s running Safari.

Do you think it’s just a matter of us tweaking the code for this library a bit too much?

Yes, I'm sure that's the case. Check out the webby test server (which is running pretty close to stock TPAC code); connection info is at http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-docs:webclient. Currently there are two items checked out to the admin user and there is no horizontal scrolling or squished display occurring using the Quirk Tools Screenfly with iPhone 3/4, iPhone 5, Galaxy S2, or even the Blackberry 8300.

  Maybe I could roll the changes back and then re-apply piece by piece to make sure it’s not something else?

It seems likely that the id "acct_checked_main_header" might have been removed, or the structure of "table#acct_checked_main_header td" was somehow disrupted; that would throw off the stock mobile CSS.

In general, this is a good reminder to check problems against a stock version of Evergreen to ensure it's not a local issue before reporting them as a bug (I need that reminder myself from time to time!)

Dan
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