Have Evaluate Relevance act like Native iOS app

[jgstew]

Affected URL: https://developer.bigfix.com/relevance/evaluate/

It is possible to include meta data in a webpage to tell iOS/Safari that a particular page can be presented in fullscreen and behave more like a native app. It is also possible for the webpage to detect when it has been added to the iOS home screen and behave a bit differently.

If this URL is added to the iOS home screen and launched, then the only content that should be displayed is like the following:

Related info on implementation:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7015962/detect-an-app-on-home-screen-of-iphone
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15205680/ios-web-app-show-content-only-if-added-to-home-screen

[baonhan]

Nice idea. I'll keep this in mind.
Actually all pages should have some improvement for mobile UI too. Having a neater navigation menu that doesn't occupy half of the page would probably solve a similar problem.

[jgstew]

I do agree, it would be nice if it were responsive on mobile and the navigation menu collapsed into a menu automatically would be very nice.

All that said, I feel that the Evaluate Relevance page is special, and is in a way an app more than it is a webpage.

The inability to do things easily on iOS / Android at all means that this is in some ways the best option I have to write relevance on my phone and iPad, so anything to make that work better is great. The next best option is have is using RDP from iOS / Android into a VM to do it that way, which is a bit clunky. This actually makes me not want to answer questions on the BigFix forum when I don't have a full computer handy because I know I'm likely to hit a question that I can't answer properly without the ability to evaluate relevance on the fly. There are many times when I'm bored on my phone or tablet when I don't have a computer and would rather write relevance than play games or check social media... crazy but true.

I would love to have an actual app that would run on iOS or cross platform to be able to do relevance, most likely using the REST API for Session Relevance and the new BFQuery for regular relevance, but this Evaluate Relevance page already exists today and has most of what I really need already.