CNET CiUI III
A common American idiom “Walk Before You Run” seems like good advice if your’re just getting your feet wet with iPhone web application programming. iPhone Cafe is a Wordpress weblog with an Apple iPhone interface and a WordPress interface and it’s been running since January 2008. iPhone Cafe recieves google hits from around the world. Now, I’d like to try and convert iPhone Cafe into a “real” iPhone web application which means doing a better job of conforming with iPhone’s recommended Safari web browser best practices for css and javascript.
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I can do PHP and MySQL and all that, however with no prior iPhone web browser development experience, I’d like to use a community developed iPhone framework which hides css and javascript iPhone details. iUI and CiUI are two frameworks developed and posted since the iPhone’s release. CiUI, written by Vladimir Olexa, appears to have better quality control. So, taking baby steps, let’s see what can be done with CiUI.
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A previous post described how to download CNETs CiUI framework for the iPhone. CNETs demo application is now running in my environment (e.g. Yahoo Hosting), so, I figured, why not clone CNETs code and see how iPhone Cafe’s Wordpress weblog might fit in the framework? The link below is the first attempt. Use your iPhone or Firefox to view…….
More work is needed, however these results are encouraging. They’re not bad for a first attempt. With very little time and energy, an iPhone UI has been wrapped around iPhone Cafe.
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More to come
