This is quite a lot of food for thought... Surprisingly this type of design is the most popular one in education/university apps. Hm... It does look a bit confusing but with some visual separation and maybe even a note not to use the center button, it might work. The other apps I have seen use the "back" button that shows up in iUI to lead to that main "app suite" screen... When you have several things that need to be part of the app:
Athletics Library Arts News Grades Directory Hours ETC You need a design that fits them conveniently on one screen so no scrolling is required... I'll start playing with this concept. Will post my progress here... On Nov 19, 9:39 am, Remi Grumeau <[email protected]> wrote: > Main "issue" i see is the way iPhone users are used to press the menu > button to get back to icons OS main set. If i launch your webapp, > click on an icon, it could seems normal that a new window pop ups > (with in it a main toolbar so this problem is solved). > > But i would for sure press the menu button of the phone to get back to > main icons ... and it would get me back to the OS menu :) Arf > > Should think about it in order to find a navigation solution to this > "issue" (quoted cause it's not an real buggy coding issue). Perhaps > the icon set idea is not that accurate and should be replaced by a > classic menu with icons on the left. nope ? > > Remi > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 14:37, 00Vic <[email protected]> wrote: > > I took a look at your screen shot. The springboard page shouldn't be > > too hard for you to make. Start with a new css class springboard or > > something like that. You can style all links on this page to look like > > icons and then just float them left with appropriate spacing between > > them. I think that would allow the layout to be flexible for screen > > orientation issues. The hard part will be integrating with iUI, > > especially if you don't want the toolbar at the top of your > > springboard page. I am still an early intermediate user of iUI and web > > design myself, but one quick way to get this up and running could be > > to use the springboard as a gateway page to smaller iUI powered apps. > > I looked at jPint mentioned on this thread and it looks like some of > > these answers may indeed lie in that code if you want to pick it > > apart. I think this springboard page class would make a cool third > > party plug in as mentioned here too. Good Luck. > > > On Nov 18, 1:04 pm, StanRB <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I just wanted to see if anybody has experience with using iUI and > >> setting up a different looking main-page/screen? I have posted an > >> example from iStanford where the different "sub-apps" are presented in > >> a similar manner as they would be on the springboard. Any ideas how to > >> achieve this? The first thing that popped in my head was a static > >> image with a map... This is for my university - we are planning on > >> having a similar "app" suite and want it to all be web-based. We don't > >> like native apps ;). > > >>http://home.adelphi.edu/~sb17776/iStanford.png > > >> I hope I am asking the question correctly... > > >> Stan > > > -- > > > 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 > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=. -- 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=.
