Thanks, Sean, Maximilian, Brent for your quick reply. I think I know what to do now.
Yes, it is absolutely amazing to see a 3 year old touch the screen, listen to sound effects, words, prompts and drag things around without any kind of hesitation. My grand-son is three. They live in the South of India, where we spend part of the year too. He runs barefoot in the forest and he's also familiar with computers, including the iPhone now. I'm working on a game and will keep you posted. -- Laurent On Sep 30, 2009, at 7:52 PM, Sean Gilligan wrote: > > Laurent wrote: >> I'm working on a web app project for small children, tots. I don't >> want them to touch the URL or bottom bars by accident. > > What age range are you targeting? You are probably right in wanting > to > disable the URL and bottom bars, but I'm not sure that's entirely > necessary for children. > > I haven't seen any research on the subject, but I do have some > personal > experience to share. My son was 3 when I first got the iPhone and I > was > amazed at how quickly he took to it. Everyone is amazed at how > quickly > kids take to computers (compared to adults) but even for the same > kid, I > could see a big difference in his interaction with the computer (via > the > mouse) and the iPhone (direct touch) Kids have small fingers and > sharp > eyes and to them the small screen doesn't seem so small. I'm > wondering > if anyone has done any research and come up with any general results > or > guidelines for UI for small children on the iPhone. > > >> Is there any >> way of hiding them temporarily (there's a way to scroll the URL bar >> out, I see - and a metatag using WebKit that disposes of all bars >> except status, which can't be changed). >> > As far as I know the scrolling technique (e.g. as used by iUI) is the > only way of 'temporarily' hiding the URL bar. > Apple's docs for using metatags to hide URL bar and change the status > bar are here: > http://developer.apple.com/safari/library/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/ConfiguringWebApplications/ConfiguringWebApplications.html#/ > > /apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40002051-CH3 > > The only downside to using the metatags is that you must add the app > to > the home screen using the "+" button and launch it from the home > screen. I'm assuming an adult could do this in advance before giving > the phone to the child. > > -- Sean > > > > _________________________ FRANCE Laurent Sauerwein 10 rue Louis Bertrand 94200 Ivry-sur-Seine France phone: +33-1-46 58 75 06 mobile: 06 45 48 85 82 _________________________ http://www.youcantouch.com http://larrysa.tumblr.com twitter: larrysa _________________________ SOUTH INDIA <------- CURRENTLY Laurent Sauerwein c/o Udhay Celebration, Kotakkarai Auroville 605111 Tamil Nadu Inde mobile: +91 904 765 00 44 Skype: larrysauerwein _________________________ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
