Re: jQuery for Mobile

[Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen <ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

 Den 19/10/10 22.54, Nathan Andelin skrev:
> > From: Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen
> > Agree.  The iPhone Safari browser is very well done.  It is
> > a pleasure to use.
>
> I don't doubt that, but for the sake of this discussion I'd be interested in
> using mobile browsers in the context of database navigation, perhaps in addition
> to content navigation.  In the case of Safari, I think it would help if you
> could remove the address bar, or go into full screen mode, so that there might
> be more room to insert application navigation, database browsing, and data
> entry.  Does Safari offer that?
The address bar is not a reserved, fixed area at the top of the screen 
but more "attached" to the top of the page shown, which then scrolls out 
of sight when you flick down on the page.

If you see this video you can see what happens when you scroll down the 
page and some dataentry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIhf0jpROwc.

The five icons at the bottom are back, forward, add (open submenu with: 
bookmark inside safari, icon with the other apps, forward per email), 
bookmarks, change page (up to 8 can be present, and you can see one at a 
time).

The onscreen keyboard is adequate but not great.  The dictionary 
suggests a single word if it finds one which you can accept with space 
if you like it.  I would not find it fun for large amounts of text, but 
you can these days attach a bluetooth keyboard if you need heavy data 
entry.  The iPad should be better.

The built in GPS and various bar code scanner programs allows for easy 
data _capture_ without dat aentry.   Scan a bar code and grab the GPS 
coordinates and the time, and you already have a lot of information 
without the user doing anything.

Basically I've found as a user that you cannot immediately transfer the 
mindset of a normal desktop application to an iPhone application as you 
need to reuse screen estate for both datapresentation and navigation.

Perhaps Niels will add his experiences?  I think he is probably the 
programmer in here who has most practical experience with creating iP* 
applications.