Interesting topic. iPad makes only fun, if the application is following the design guides and sticks to simplicity. It's not impossible do code a good iPad IDE, but needs some brain cycles.
C9 is very interesting and I try it out now. So far, I wouldn't think it can be fun, to use in on an iPad. It's not really designed to make fun. Regarding the iPad keyboard, this is a very important point. So, a fun editor would either need to come with a custom keyboard or with a very good code snippets library and auto completion. Custom keyboard means native app, I'd say. On my Mac, occasionally I use CodeRunner, which is not overloaded with features. Something like this, for iPad would be great. I am an iOS developer, but I never programmed an editor with syntax highlighting, etc. On iOS devices the "user experience" is everything. If it just works, I rather use my MacBook. On Apr 9, 10:50 pm, Dave Clements <[email protected]> wrote: > I do my development on laptop, but I use iPad for updates, admin, etc. on the > move. > > All my work for a site or app is done in a dropbox folder on laptop, i have > the dropbox service running on my server so updates are synced automatically, > and then I use PlainText [1] which syns with db for nice clean editing on the > iPad. > > Editing code isn't too easy coz you have to switch the keyboard to symbols by > pressing two buttons, the .?123 then the #*= button. So doing your {} can be > quite arduous. However, if you're using jade views and stylus css engine this > becomes a lot easier for your frontend stuff, > > I also use iSSH, for server admin. You can turn on a full keyboard in the > settings of that app. Incidentally you can actually install nodejs on the > ipad [2](only v4 though, afaik) and use iSSH to login to the iPad (if you've > jailbroken) and run node from it. > > [1]http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/plaintext > [2]https://github.com/TooTallNate/node/downloads -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" 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/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
