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.NET Forum / ASP.NET / Mobile / April 2004Finding updates for <browserCaps>
Hi Are there any online resources to get updates to the <browserCaps> secion of machine.config ? I have several users of my mobile app in Japan whose phones are not recognised by it and they get chtml when they should be getting wml etc etc. I see a reference to http://www.cyscape.com/browsercaps/ in my machine.config but that site does not have any updates. Frankly I'm surpised that Micorsoft has that reference there ! If there is no online resource, what can I do ? Many of these people are not technical at all - they can't even tell me what model of phone they have (all they know is that it's the latest vodafone, J-Phone or whatever ! ) Thanks in advance Rob Hello ! Can anyone help with this ? > Hi > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > Thanks in advance > Rob Hi, I see no other solution but adding suport to the other devices by yourself. I'm currently tring to add correct suport to Motorola c33x series. I know how to add suport to other devices as well (I spent about a week playing with it), yet, I still have unsolved problems :( []'s Helcio > Hello ! Can anyone help with this ? > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Thanks in advance > > Rob Hi Rob, Microsoft issues device updates for MMIT on a periodic basis. The most current update is the Device Update 4.0: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=02FA15FE-40D9-4DCE-9BB1 -4DD61A5B7CCB The main page to access all device updates is located here: ASP.NET Mobile Controls Device Updates http://msdn.microsoft.com/mobility/prodtechinfo/devtools/asp.netmc/mobileweb/asp mobiledrivers/default.aspx If the device you want isn't located in your machine.config, it is a fairly simple matter to add the device. Microsoft created an Extensibility Developer's guide to support adding new device adapters and device support to the toolkit. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/mwsdk/html/mworiExtensibilityDevelopersG uide.asp I hope this information helps. Thanks, Jean-Luc David Microsoft .NET MVP dotnetmvp@hotmail.com http://www.stormpixel.com http://www.mobilecoder.net --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Are there any online resources to get updates to the <browserCaps> > > > secion of machine.config ? I have several users of my mobile app in [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > > Thanks in advance > > > Rob Hi - thanks for your message. Actually I installed v4 of the Device Update already. Do please correct me if I'm wrong, but don't I need to know the characteristics of the device in order to add support in <browserCaps> ? If so then I'm stuck because the whole problme is that I don't know *anything* about the device being used. All I know if that the user says it doesn't work (from his description it seems that chtlm is being output the screen so i guess the decivce wants wml. This is not an isolated case, I've got about 15 users who have similar problems and presumably heaps more who don't report it. > Hi Rob, > [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > Rob Hi Rob, Actually, if all your users are primarily J-Phone/Vodafone users, you can alter the browserCaps section for J-Phone and specify you want WML output instead of Compact HTML. - Open up your machine.config file - Scroll down to the J-Phone filter element - change the preferredRenderingType from "html32" to "wml11" You will have to do a lot of tweaking to get this working correctly. For example, the preferredImageMime is "image/png". PNG files aren't supported in WML therefore you will have to change it to WBMP (for example "image/vnd.wap.wbmp"). If you want to go this route, you might want to look at specific mobile adapter definitions for WAP devices to model your tweaks. Remember to back up a copy of your old machine.config just in case you need to reset everything to the original configuration... A major downside to this approach is that *all* J-Phone users will receive WML content by default. The best solution IMHO is to get each user to visit the Vodafone website, identify their phone model and send you the results. Then you can deal with each problem on a case by case basis. Good luck! Thanks, Jean-Luc David Microsoft .NET MVP dotnetmvp@hotmail.com http://www.stormpixel.com http://www.mobilecoder.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Hi - thanks for your message. Actually I installed v4 of the Device > Update already. Do please correct me if I'm wrong, but don't I need to [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >> Thanks in advance >> Rob
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