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   Robert Wolfe to All   
   Wildcat! Mobile Int 01/02   
   02 Sep 18 10:36:00   
   
   Saw this and thought I would share it with everyone interested:   
      
   This message was from winserver.support@winserv to winserver   
   originally in conference wcListServe WIN Server on XPRESS {Santronics   
   and was forwarded to you by BOBBY TODD   
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   Mobile Interfacing is a major step for Wildcat! Its going to be a    
   moving post.  But one thing for sure, is how it will work as a    
   standard Wildcat! Interface when it comes to:   
      
       - Menu Display of your wcMENU items   
       - WCN (Wildcat! Navigator) Clients   
      
   Today, we have the following:   
      
   For MODEM/TELNET MODE, we have the wcMENU system which allows you to   
   use two column display of items and/or display of ANSI displays to    
   override the text menu.  (TIP:  If you remove (hide/move) the    
   MENU\*.BBS files, you will see the two column display of your menu items.)   
      
   For FTP, there is no navigation other than the File Groups/Areas layout.   
      
   For WEB mode, the stock Wildcat! navigation is the WCN clients.    
   WcNavigator is modeled on this layout of using the clients listed   
   under the "CLIENTS\" sub-folder.  For example:   
      
     Directory of C:\wcat\clients   
      
   06/25/2017  08:38 PM              .   
   06/25/2017  08:38 PM              ..   
   06/25/2017  08:38 PM              Chat Client   
   06/25/2017  08:38 PM              File Client   
   06/25/2017  08:38 PM              Instant Message Client   
   06/25/2017  08:38 PM              Message Client   
   06/25/2017  08:38 PM              Personal Properties Client   
   06/25/2017  08:38 PM              Sysop Client   
   06/25/2017  08:38 PM              System   
   06/25/2017  08:38 PM              Terminal Client   
   06/25/2017  08:38 PM              Transfer Client   
   06/25/2017  08:38 PM              Who's Online Client   
      
   Thats for WcNavigator and also for setting the access securities.   
      
   For WcWEB, the urls are:   
      
       /client?personal.wcn     Personal (Your Settings)   
       /client?message.wcn      Messaging   
       /client?file.wcn         Filing   
       /client?who.wcn          who's online   
       /client?chat.wcn         chat   
       /client?terminal.wcn     terminal   
       /client?sysop.wcn        Sysop menu   
      
   WcWEB has a default page header where these are set in:   
      
       http\template\pageheadermenu.inc   
      
   Despite its age, it is pretty advanced stuff with lots of "automation"    
   then and now.   
      
   That is where "Wildcat! Mobile" comes into play.   
      
   I had started this back in the early 2000s way before we had a clue    
   what the mobile world would look like.   The early days, the interface    
   proposal was called WAP, it was XML, RSS like system to display stuff.   
     It was still a moving target and we had yet to be ready for mobile    
   bandwidth.  It didn't work well and there was no standard for PHONES    
   yet too.  Today, its pretty much Apple or Android. Microsoft seem to    
   punked out.   
      
   But to show you want I am talking about and still thinking of doing    
   for MOBILE today, is what I had done back in the early 2000s:   
      
        http://www.winserver.com/phonemenu.wct   
      
    From a PC, Login and click the above to see how I taking the wcMENU    
   items and creating a text display with old school mobile dimensions.   
      
   This is applicable today, but not in TEXT mode but using HTML5    
   Javacript and the new MOBILE dimensions available.   
      
   Thats where I am going with all these, what STOCK interface do we want    
   for the basic  Wildcat! Clients and Wildcat Menu Navigation?   
      
   If you know of a particular mobile interface you like and/or think    
   fits for what I want to do, please show me a URL link for an example.    
     Please keep in mind, I am not talking of the Page Layouts.  Its all    
   related, but how do you put the MENUS and CLIENTS in the headers, for    
   example.  Whats a good interface, one can start with?   
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