mrgan:
Nial Giacomelli has done a bang-up job with Showtime, his web app for keeping track of your favorite TV shows. It’s not fabulous “for a web app”, it’s fabulous period.
John Gruber has two fair and true complaints about it:
- Scrolling (it’s slow even at maximum speed.)
- The ON/OFF toggle switch has to be tapped (instead of the deeply satisfying native ability to slide it as well.)
As someone who’s into iPhone web apps, I’m going to side with Nial and focus on the positive.
The latter problem, the toggle, is fully solvable. There’s no technical reason this can’t be done with Javascript; it’s just not a ton of fun recreating native behaviors (who am I kidding - yes it is, sometimes!) If Nial doesn’t fix this soon, I’ll take a crack at it. But here’s the punchline: when it’s fixed, it’ll be fixed on everyone’s copy of Showtime the next time they launch it. How much would SDK developers give up to gain that ability?
The former problem - scrolling - may be trickier, or even unsolvable (or not!) It’s a bummer. But, I can live with it. I know Nial’s developing this with a pocket knife and a can of plumber’s putty, so I’m granting him a generous handicap.
iPhone-style checkboxes with touch events are entirely feasible. There’s even a jQuery plugin available to do just this. I’ve never used it in a project myself, but their demo page works as expected on my phone, dragging and all.
Oh, and Showtime’s not so bad either.
You, sir, are at a loss. The inclusion of Zen Coding alone makes authoring markup a joy.
There’s also a Coda version if that suits your fancy.
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This is a fantastic album. I grabbed it on CD last summer while in Boone. Each track is worth many listens.
Google, subtly using Sesame Street to sell the Motorola Droid to infants. And just when I thought vending candy cigarettes to toddlers was rock-bottom, Dr. Donoevil carves out a new crevasse of lowliness to aspire to.
mrgan:
Japanese iPhone commercial. In which a dog plays piano. (via rands)
What a whimsical country.
staff:
Tumblr iPhone 1.1 Sneak Peek!
It’s been submitted to the App Store and should be live this week! Here’s a preview from its wonderful developer, Jeff Rock:
- Video posts. Choose from your camera roll or capture a new video right from the app (iPhone 3GS only).
- Native editing. Need to add tags or update a post on the go? Just tap the ‘edit’ button on a post in the Dashboard to load it up in a native post editor.
- Search. Supports searching across Tumblr, in your Dashboard or on just your posts.
- Built-in web browser. No more losing your place when you tap a link in Dashboard. Now a web browser will pop up and let you investigate the interwebs.
- Post upload status. Never wonder how long it’s going to take that Audio post to upload again.
- Post geotagging. Even I’m not sure what this is for, but I’m sure that it’s going to be awesome.
- Rewritten Dashboard tab (replaces the Sites tab). See all your posts from each of your blogs, including drafts and queues.
- Rewritten Advanced Post Options. New support for Save as draft, Add to Queue, Publish on, Custom post URL’s, Send to Twitter and Ask a question.
- Dashboard now only reloads on command. Not every time you tap the tab. Sorry about that one :P
- Better quality photo posts. Photos are now sent with less compression.
- New bookmarklet format for links. More info coming once 1.1 goes live.
Note: The rest has been removed for brevity’s sake.
Whoa.
I’m excited. And the first thing I did upon reading this was start playing with URLs. Turns out the tumblr website components of the 1.1 release are already up and running. See:
I still can’t figure out, however, what the URL is for viewing just your posts.
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Medicine Man off of Zero 7’s latest album, Yeah Ghost. This album is much funky-fresher than their earlier stuff. It’s great.
This is a big deal. I know support for grouping functionality has been much contested across desktop and iPhone Twitter applications. Making it a native API feature is going to change things. Looks like Mr. Brichter has his work cut out for him.
The feature appears to have a custom-tailored interface to boot. Twitter is discernibly driving forward with updates abound. I’m excited.
Woohoo. Compatriot is currently featured on Tumblr’s Theme Garden page.
I’ve been making a few tweaks to this blog recently, namely: infinite scrolling and keyboard navigation (try pressing j and k). Hopefully I’ll be able to get around to incorporating some of them into compatriot in the near future.
Edit: Turns out the featured section is apparently now just a random list of 8 themes. I do not regret making this post.
“Why doesn’t Google Docs update every half second like Etherpad does? Because it’s really, really hard. We’re fairly experienced programmers, and to make this work we had to solve problems that, as far as we know, no one had solved before.”
Etherpad. The site is much prettier than it was a few months ago.
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