>>>>>If you can enforce an HTML5 requirement that shouldn't be a problem. With local storage and offline manifests you can easily create a web page that will work perfectly whilst offline and update when there's a connection available.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks I'll investigate that. Any suggestions on where to start learning? Same suggestion as Michael so same response :)
>>>
>>>For offline pages :
>>>http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/appcache/beginner/
>>>or
>>>http://diveintohtml5.info/offline.html
>>>
>>>For local storage:
>>>http://diveintohtml5.info/storage.html
>>>
>>>or, for the full nitty-gritty look at the w3c documentation....
>>
>>Thanks!
>
>Hi Frank
>
>I juts produced a similar system for a logistics company with signature capture etc One thing you should look out for is some windows phones use an embedded internet explorer that doesn't support some html 5 elements, particularly the canvas element.

Don't think you're right about the canvas element - thought it had been there in IE since 9.0 ?
Good compatibility chart here, BTW : http://fmbip.com/litmus/ (although it doesn't include IE 11

> As the people where tied to the (rubbish) phones by contract we had to use a product called zetakey as their browser which works ok but there is a license cost. Having said that developing in html with local storage was a lot easier than trying to produce a seperate app.
>
>Nick