Another AJAX Sample for IE Mobile (plus JSON and ASP.NET AJAX tips)

re: Another AJAX Sample for IE Mobile (plus JSON and ASP.NET AJAX tips)

ttklf4 — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:29:40 GMT

I was very surprised to read that it shall be possible to use ASP.NET AJAX with IE Mobile 6.

In my experience it is neither possible to use ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 nor the Microsoft AJAX Library with IE Mobile 6.

Could you please set an example how to use ASP.NET AJAX or the Microsoft AJAX Library with IE Mobile 6?

re: Another AJAX Sample for IE Mobile (plus JSON and ASP.NET AJAX tips)

iemoblog — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 21:50:17 GMT

Hello,

I am checking to see if we can publish the ASP.NET AJAX demo shown at MEDC.

Did you use one of the workarounds that is listed in the PowerPoint deck to make ASP.NET AJAX work with IE Mobile 6?

What version of IE Mobile are you using? You can find this out by navigating to "about:version" in the browser.

Finally, what specific behavior are you seeing?

Thanks,

Charles

re: Another AJAX Sample for IE Mobile (plus JSON and ASP.NET AJAX tips)

ttklf4 — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:35:45 GMT

Thank you for your answer, Charles.

It would be very helpfull to have the demo you mentioned.

I used the Device Emulator 2 with IEMobile 6.9.

With the workarounds that are lsited in the PowerPoint deck the server delivers the same code and script resources to IEMobile which are send to desktop browsers if I use a sample page with an ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel. But the page still postbacks. No Ajax functionality. No error messages. It would be interesting to know if one can debug JScript with the Device Emulator.

Microsoft AJAX Library: If I include the MicrosoftAjax.js and try to find out the browser name and its version with Sys.Browser.name and Sys.Browser.version I don't get anything in IEMobile while this test works with other mobile browsers, e. g. S60 browser from Nokia or Opera Mini 4 Beta. IEMobile returns the well known ASP.NET AJAX error "'Sys' is undefinded". (Test: http://localhost:1245/jkgfh1.maximumaspbeta.com/m/a/Test1.aspx)

re: Another AJAX Sample for IE Mobile (plus JSON and ASP.NET AJAX tips)

iemoblog — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 21:30:58 GMT

Thanks for the details. I think the problem is that there are actually different minor versions of IE Mobile in Windows Mobile 6 releases. The version you have (6.9) corresponds to the initial release of WM6. We updated the browser for WM6 AKU 0.2 release to IE Mobile 6.12 which includes many of the changes needed to support ASP.NET AJAX.

We typically state that this is the version of IE Mobile for WM6 because most phones which are released to the public will have at least AKU 0.2.

The good news is that I double checked the latest emulator images and they have IE Mobile 6.12. You can download them here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=38C46AA8-1DD7-426F-A913-4F370A65A582&displaylang=en

Let us know if that helps.

re: Another AJAX Sample for IE Mobile (plus JSON and ASP.NET AJAX tips)

avives — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:59:10 GMT

Hi,

I'm wondering about the differences between the IE that is bundled in Windows CE 5 and the one that comes with Microsoft Mobile 5/6. The thing is that we have an AJAX application that works fine with Windows CE 5.0 but it's not working properly in Mobile 5 and 6, the library is loaded fine but it behaves unexpectedly.

At least to us it seems that the version in Windows CE 5 is more advanced than the IE Mobile, is this due to the Pocket version root of IEMobile? Anyone knows why still there are diferences even though the SO base is the same?

Thanks

re: Another AJAX Sample for IE Mobile (plus JSON and ASP.NET AJAX tips)

iemoblog — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:01:26 GMT

Hi avives:

There are two different browsers that you can get with CE 5.0 - either "full" IE which is ported from the desktop, or a smaller version which is equivalent to the Windows Mobile version. It sounds like you are most likely using the full version on CE which is indeed more advanced version than what ships with Windows Mobile 5/6.

re: Another AJAX Sample for IE Mobile (plus JSON and ASP.NET AJAX tips)

ttklf4 — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:22:15 GMT

Can you explain what you mean by "ATLAS" and "AJAX"? I am astonished that the IEMobile team apparently does not know that "Atlas" was the name of the Microsoft ASP.NET Ajax framework in the beta phase. Since the RTM it is called Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX. One of many confusing things in the discussion of ASP.NET AJAX and IEMobile ...

re: Another AJAX Sample for IE Mobile (plus JSON and ASP.NET AJAX tips)

iemoblog — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:19:10 GMT

Hi ttklf4:

By 'Atlas' we did mean 'ASP.NET AJAX'. Sometimes we have a bad habit of continuing to call products by their codename after they have been officially renamed. I've edited the post to be clearer. Thanks for the feedback!

re: Another AJAX Sample for IE Mobile (plus JSON and ASP.NET AJAX tips)

horse — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:16:03 GMT

Does IE Mobile support frames?

re: Another AJAX Sample for IE Mobile (plus JSON and ASP.NET AJAX tips)

iemoblog — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:49:10 GMT

Hi horse: Yes, IE Mobile supports frames.

re: Another AJAX Sample for IE Mobile (plus JSON and ASP.NET AJAX tips)

skyntchev — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:39:30 GMT

I have an Image AJAX/Java script related question.

If an image is enclosed in a DIV tag whose style is set to "hidden", IE does not download the image when it renders the page. Unfortunately, if later you make the DIV visible, the image still does not download. I had some (limited) success by removing and reattaching the image using DOM, but sometimes it works sometimes it does not work. Is there a way to do that using Java script (or any other way)?

Thanks

re: Another AJAX Sample for IE Mobile (plus JSON and ASP.NET AJAX tips)

iemoblog — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:30:28 GMT

skyntchev:

I didn't have a problem making this work. Can you share the code that you're using?

-Charles

re: Another AJAX Sample for IE Mobile (plus JSON and ASP.NET AJAX tips)

lakshmansrg — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:37:05 GMT

Does IE 6.12 on WM6 supports Google Maps browsing?

If its supported, would it work on HTC Mogul.

Thanks!

re: Another AJAX Sample for IE Mobile (plus JSON and ASP.NET AJAX tips)

iemoblog — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:35:30 GMT

lakshmansrg:

There are some issues with the Google Maps web site on IE Mobile 6.12.

For maps, I'd suggest using a dedicated mobile client application such as Live Search. You can download it by visiting http://wls.live.com on your phone.

-Charles