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I have been toying with creating a mobile web application for personal use, and I’m at a point where it is starting to become useful. My web app is called “Seattle AA Meeting Locator”.

My goal is to be able to find a meeting around the Seattle area from my mobile device; this way, when I am out and about, I can just look it up without having to lug around a laptop or find a WiFi signal. This little web holds approx 1300 records in a database; which can be quite powerful when you need to find a meeting in a pinch.

While testing my newly created website with Microsoft’s IE Mobile browser, I discovered that IE was preventing some of my code to run. It rendered the page, but no action. What a bummer!

Then I decided to test it with Opera Mini and things worked as expected. I still ended up with an alignment issue, but that is very minor and common for mobile browsers. On Opera, the application manages to display the meetings and calls up the next page when a user makes a selection.
I am really surprised that IE Mobile doesn’t render my application correctly, especially since I am using ASP.NET and built this whole app with Microsoft Expression Web Designer.

Here is a picture of my mobile app on Opera Mini.