Last couple months I have been working on a custom javascript framework to serve information (push/pull) from the WebCenter Rest API over Christmas I created a simple html5 based site which happily works on my HTC and Blackberry browser, I have no iphone as it is in peaces in the attempt to replace the facia…  But in theory this should work on any mobile device – it doesn’t look pretty at the moment just white background links and structured layout.

I started mocking up the interface skin for the BlackBerry on Sunday, I’m hoping around 19th the interface will be ready.. All depends on what free time I can find.
Then I can work on the CSS3 skin should take 1-2 days to test and get in place… but I need your help..

If you have a BlackBerry device; access to a WebCenter Spaces environment and some spare time to ftp files across onto the local WebCenter apache environment – post me a message and when I’ve finished fingers crossed end of the month I’ll send you a copy of the files for your opinion and to play with. Due to the time and effort I wont be making this opensource – maybe the improved JS rest api adaptor will be though.

I’ll also get a screencast done so those without the device can see it in action.. maybe a live one with me recording it.

Why BlackBerry Skin and not just a generic interface that will be cross device specific?
Well; I feel this is probably one of the hardest devices to design for with some devices having touchscreen some not, different resolutions I thought it may be a challenge. The iphone and android devices although different in essence can be easily skinned as they take up virtually the same real estate in screen dimensions but phones like blackberry and Nokia’s I’m not so sure – Here’s a good guide developing on the android, ios resolution.

It may be possible to create a generic cross device skin but I’m just not that confident – I feel that 3 interfaces would be needed to globally support all mobile devices and make UIX great for any phone but until I try it out I wont know for sure.