On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 9:26 AM, David Kirkby <[email protected]> wrote: > I thnk the trick to any sort of application on a phone like this is to > make the interface have the bare minimum. (no links to home-pages, no > description. Just the bare essentials. Using CSS, it is quite easy to > get a browser on a small mobile device see a different page to that of > a larger computer. > > I think the current web based interface is too cluttered to use on a > small device well, though I have not tried. My PDA has long since > died, and I don't own a Blackburry of high-end phone. All I use my > phone for is making telephone calls. I think it can browse the web, > but I've never tried!
For what it's worth, I just tried logging into sagenb.org on an Android phone, and it was pretty usable. The list of active worksheets wrapped nicely and I didn't have to scroll horizontally; the top of the page was a little bit cluttered for a phone display, but it's still acceptable (to me, anyway). The results of show() on a worksheet didn't always work, but I didn't spend enough time looking at it to figure out why. As with the view in a full-size screen, it would be nice if the show() output could be wrapped automatically (assuming there's not an option to do that already and I've just missed seeing it). Plotting a function worked just fine, and the default plot fit exactly in my display horizontally, with only about 10% cut off vertically (which again seems just fine to me, given the display size). All in all, if I found myself somewhere without a laptop and needing to do something in Sage, I expect I could get by with just my phone. -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
