iPhone version of my Blog
Saturday, September 27, 2008
I've been fiddling around with iPhone development (both web apps and
native apps) recently and have been building some "toy" applications. For
giggles, I decided to create an iPhone version of my weblog using
Apple's
Dashcode utility:
It took all of about 15 minutes to create a web app that read in my
RSS feed and displayed my blog in a format more convenient for viewing
on the iPhone (or iPod Touch). Here's a comparison of my normal blog
page on the iPhone and the same contents in the iPhone-friendly format:
I've added a link to the iPhone version on the sidebar of my
blog. Personally, I find the "normal" blog page no problem to read if
I first double-tap in the content frame (which eliminates the
sidebar and makes the content text larger). However, I usually have either a
3G or
wifi connection, so my HTML page loads are pretty fast. If you use an
iPhone to read my blog and you have to use an
Edge connection (rather
than the faster
3G or wifi network connections), you may find my iPhone blog format more convenient:
http://bc.tech.coop/blog/iphone/index.html
