Thank you very much for the replies, that is really helpful. Because I need to effectively 'style' existing CMS output, which has a navigation column already in the page (can specify YUi TreeView for example), it is possible that any code I write may not subsequently fit well with iUI. I am basically just implementing a document viewer, with a single navigation column and display pages on the RHS. There are certainly benefits to using iUI in this context because I don't need to re-write the entire user interface of the CMS (as I would if I used Secha Touch for example). I would apply the iUI cosmetics to the various elements that are already on the page, probably loading the entire document nav hierarchy into an iUI instance in the left column, and loading the document pages asynchronously in the RH column. If the site is viewed on a standard browser then a CSS @media based on device capabilities can determine whether to load the iUI components or not. I can organise the CMS output to meet iUI's needs by simply writing new output templates. In contrast, if I go down the Sencha Touch route then I will definitely need to write more in the way of a WebApp user-interface delivered in Javascript instead of in HTML, and I still have the problem of supporting standard (non Web-Kit) browsers with a normal interface. Not an easy decision to make at this early stage! R.
On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 6:46:50 AM UTC, Sean Gilligan wrote: > On 3/11/13 2:37 AM, Remi Grumeau wrote: > > AFAIR, the problem i had with what Sean did is that it's really not a > > two column implementation. > > In iuiPad, the two columns operate with a single navigation stack. The > column on the left is for navigation (aka directory/index) nodes in a > site map/tree and the column on the right is used to display the leaf > nodes. This works for a certain type of application but not for all > applications. One advantage to the single navigation stack approach is > that the same app can work in two-column mode on a tablet and in > one-column mode on a phone. > > If you want the left column and the right column to operate completely > independently each with their own navigation stack, you'll need to > instantiate two instances of iUI itself. iUI 0.4 is not designed for > this, but it is a feature that I would like to see in iUI 0.5/0.6. > > -- Sean > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
