mentimeter.com
Quick, easy way to do voting or polling.
Created one for my presentation on QR codes at IUG 2012 conference.
HTML, CSS, batch commands, and Javascript examples that I have used in my library work. Short entries, designed as quick reference.
By Len Davidson at CUA Law Library
2/20/2012
2/11/2012
Smart Phone Emulators
All the online, browser based emulators that I looked at, never rendered web pages like a real mobile phone. So best choice was so set up a stand alone emulator:
Android
List of Emulators
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I tried both, and neither produced output like a regular iPhone. They may convince a webserver that they are an iPhone, but then they don’t render the HTML/CSS as an iPhone does.
For example, they ignore this tag
<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=0.5, maximum-scale=1.5" />
Below:
LEFT: Safari with user Agent set to iPhone.
Right: Android emulator (matches what I see on iPhone)
Android
Android Virtual Device - Easy to install, can select different versions, and set initial RAM. Saves bookmarks between sessions, can use keyboard to enter textWindows Phone 7
Be careful of requirements for graphics card. Does not save info between sessions, cant use keyboard, must use virtual keyboard.Apple
Have not tested yet, need to run this on Apple machine.
List of Emulators
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Michael Johnson (Shawnee Univ) suggested these online emulators:
Safari as an emulator: http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-emulate-iphone-change-user-agent-in-safari-and-firefox-web-browser/
I tried both, and neither produced output like a regular iPhone. They may convince a webserver that they are an iPhone, but then they don’t render the HTML/CSS as an iPhone does.
For example, they ignore this tag
<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=0.5, maximum-scale=1.5" />
Below:
LEFT: Safari with user Agent set to iPhone.
Right: Android emulator (matches what I see on iPhone)
2/01/2012
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