Pocket PC XML - Try Us Out !

If you access the SMH Systems Website from a Pocket PC, you'll automatically be redirected to a special minisite for these devices. We're building this to showcase our capabilities in HTML applications (AJAX), XML DOM programming, XSL stylesheets, and web page packaging for Pocket PC, SmartPhone and other devices built on the Windows CE platform.

Please enjoy these demos of our capabilities:

  • an aggregation page, with links to websites for our home city Sydney
  • a 'disposable RSS Reader' for the news and sport headlines from the ABC
  • links to PDA versions of some Fairfax newspapers
  • a 'disposable RSS Reader' for the local Sydney TV programme guides
  • a book or two for you to read
  • a version of our Shakespeare Play Reader, specially packaged for Pocket PC - read the classic plays, and learn your lines

Note that some pages may be large and could attract significant download charges on some GPRS services and plans.

None of the applications requires any software installation - like our Custom XML Authoring Solutions they're designed for zero-footprint load-and-go.  Everything is served from the website on demand.

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So if you're travelling on public transport and have a Pocket PC with internet access via GPRS or mobile broadband, you can amaze your fellow-passengers by reading the Immortal Bard or News Headlines, or checking the weather forecast, on the bus or train in real-time.  More screenshots of the RSS Readers.

If you're using a device with screen width less than 240 pixels, such as a phone based on Pocket PC, you'll see a more restricted menu - currently limited to news items and RSS feeds.

Want to see more?  Simply point your Pocket Internet Explorer to www.smhsystems.com.au.

The website is built mostly from XML and XSL, to avoid tedious HTML programming and to make it easy to maintain and extend. Most of the content was prepared and can be maintained by editing simple XML files.


Would you like to deliver web-based services or content like this to mobile users?  Call us today!.