Critically crippled by being Winblows only. You should have mentioned that before I wasted my time checking it out.
On Oct 15, 2009, at 5:29 AM, wayne parrott wrote: > > A good alternative to using a desktop browser for quick rendering > feedback is to use something like MobiOne with its iPhone and Pre > emulator modes. (Disclaimer: I build custom mobile web apps and work > on the MobiOne dev team) We develop with several mobile web UI > frameworks including JQTouch and iUI. We found that using a desktop > browser is very limited especially once our needs grew beyond basic > rendering feedback. For example the problems that we quickly hit when > using desktop browsers included no multi-touch, orientation events, > webapp mode, viewport & scale settings, statusbar styling, offline, > startup image,.... We built all of those features into MobiOne on top > of its custom WebKit browser engine. > > See MobiOne demo videos including JQTouch features here > http://www.genuitec.com/mobile/features.html > > Wayne > http://www.genuitec.com/mobile > > On Oct 14, 4:50 pm, Jorge Chamorro <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 14/10/2009, at 21:04, brente wrote: >> >>> Well said, Sean. And bravo for all staying mellow and cool despite >>> technical differences. One thing I like about this list is that >>> people are nice and very helpful. >> >>> Jorge, maybe you could write an extension js that adds the >>> functionality you need for full browsers, without adding it to the >>> main jqtouch.js file? >> >> It ought to be built in(to) iui/jqtouch/iWebkit/others (but not as an >> extension, imo) >> >>> I totally hear what you're saying with wanting a framework that >>> works >>> well, gracefully degrades and scales appropriately. And if the >>> browser companies could decide on real standards to adhere to, we'd >>> all be in a different position. The mobile landscape with browsers >>> sure is annoying. >> >> It's pretty easy nowadays to make (it) work in these 4: Safari, >> Chrome >> FF and Opera. >> IE is "different", you know. >> >>> And having to consider, which I am now, to >>> architect 3 versions of your site (full browser, webkit smartphone, >>> and lite-text) brings back 1999 browser compatibility nightmares >>> again. I hear ya. >> >>> I've used IUI for a real-world site and am learning jQTouch now. >>> They >>> both rock and have their pros/cons. I too seek the day when there >>> is >>> "one code base to rule them all". Let me know if you find it. >> >> I've got it.: my hyper-forked iui :-) >> Whenever I touch it I make sure it runs too in the other 3 browsers. >> >> -- >> Jorge. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
