Community: Meeting Agendas and Notes: Developer's Meeting 2011 09 14

Community: Meeting Agendas and Notes: Developer's Meeting 2011 09 14

##Campus Updates

###UC Berkley

• Introduced grid layout to full version in prepartation for container app.
• Downloaded the titanium code that UCSD developed.

###UCSF

• Running new dev branch on staging server, image minifier doesn’t work
• Doing cool things, but not much to talk about right now
• Staging server at http://mobile-stage.library.ucsf.du/ for develop branch

###UCLA

• Rolled out pan hellenic app
• Have digital map of activities fair
• Crunch time for welcome week
• Welcome week app is out
• Lunched a recreation app that has information on all recreational activites on campus and is now popular on campus.
• Live demo of the student portal is ready - allows users to view enrolled classes and grades, etc.
• MWF conference podcasts soon to be up

###UCSD

• Released a new version of the android app. Having loading indicator issues
• Working on iPhone loading signs.
• Most visited web site - my tacking app…. Can find out grades, etc.
• All web pages including mobile apps have a JS module that inserts an error message. This was useful during the power outage.
• Increase in Mozilla based mobile browsing ~25%. SkyFire is a new browser app on iPhone

###UCI

• First mobile web developers conference held Sep. 14 (10-15 people)
• Discuss standardization of mobile framework, explore possbilitis of applying MWF in campus
• Created a fork of MWF… figuring out how GitHub works
• Will probably go with MWF 1.1

###Riverside (Juan)

• Busy getting started with MWF
• Working on acquiring necessary resources

##MWF Updates

• MWF is switching to a new device capabilities & classification scheme
• Modifications for this new scheme are available in the develop branch
• This moves version release numbers back one due to type of update
• Release formerly identified as MWF 1.2 is now MWF 1.3
• Some features from this slate may still make it into MWF 1.2
• MWF 1.3 features have been moved to MWF 1.4

###Target release dates

• MWF 1.2 RC - October 1 2011
• MWF 1.2 GM - October 15 2011
• MWF 1.3 (formerly 1.2) - Q2 2012
• MWF 1.4 (formerly 1.3) - Q4 2012
• This update is fully compatible for content providers
• Service providers may need to make some alternations to customized server-side code

###Benefits for Using the Classification and Capabilities Scheme

• Simplifies installation process, there is little maintanence in terms of using WURFL
• User Agent and browser engine, etc. detection done via regular expressions
• Same classifications - basic, standard, full
• If JS or Cookies are disabled, gracefully degrades to basic
• Complient to ECMA 2623 – all devices should support this version
• In the future, we will be exposing more API for detecting capabilities
• The detection relies on modernizer but the architecture allows to easily replace the tool
• Fixes license issues
• No more performance issues with WURFL performance
• All the old JS calls are still there
• More information gathering in the future, maybe have a centralized datacenter
• The beneftis outweigh the costs

###Costs/Cons

• For each request there will be extra HTTP request
• The code may look a bit obfuscated but this is for allowing minimization