Question

I have just come across the Mobile application toolkit which enables me to expose my web app built on Asp.NET MVC 2 on an iPhone and other mobile devices. However how would I expose my site on an iPad?

Are there any toolkits out there?

JD

Answer 1

Well, what I do is just using a Framework. I used to use jQTouch but now I’m using jQueryMobile as it works better in Android and Opera Mobile (to use with Nokias or any mobile device) much better that the last time I use jQTouch (before Jonathan took over the project).

if a user is using an iPad or any other desktop browser, I sent the user to my desktop views, if using any other iDevice, Android or Opera Mobile, I set the user to use jQueryMobile Views.

It’s quite easy to accomplish this with MVC2, the controllers are the same, methods are the same, you just redirect to a different view.

I choose to should my web application in desktop mode in the iPad cause I add some meta to it and that works fantasticaly fine in the iPad, you could also use any Framework or develop a new html5 view to work with the iPad if you don’t want to mess up what you have already.

You need to rememer that in an iPad, there is no “hover” effect, and a click is a tap, though Mobile Safari does a pretty good job on click events, you could create a new set of views that use this new techniques, as well, the full set of Safari CSS3 and other bonus, such as geolocation, browser database, etc

more under Apple Technical Note: Preparing Your Web Content for iPad

I hope this helps, if you need more, please more precise question