{"id":2003,"date":"2008-09-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=2003"},"modified":"2017-02-05T11:27:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T11:27:55","slug":"scotedublogs-on-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/scotedublogs-on-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"ScotEduBlogs on iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.name\/iphone \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/johnjohnston\/.Public\/seb_iphone.jpg\" width=\"174\" height=\"254\" alt=\"\"  style=\"border:none;float:left;margin-right:4px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Given the September weekend weather and having a cold I spent a lot of time the weekend in front of my computer. <\/p>\n<p>I spent most of the time following up links from the Scottish Learning Festival and teachmeet and smoothing out some idiosyncrasies in the way that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandaigprimary.co.uk\/\" title=\"Sandaig Primary School: Home\">Sandaig Primary<\/a> website works.<\/p>\n<p>I also spent some time thinking about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotedublogs.org.uk\/\" title=\"ScotEduBlogs news: index\">ScotEduBlogs.org.uk<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phrases.org.uk\/bulletin_board\/24\/messages\/1152.html\" title=\"Re: Footering\">footering<\/a> with my latest toy. This lead to the discovery of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joehewitt.com\/files\/iphone\/navigation.html#_albums\">iPhone Navigation<\/a> an example of a web interface for the iPhone, you can see it your browser if you do not have a phone. I was able to create a webpage that grabbed the RSS from ScotEduBlogs and present in using the iPhone Navagation design. I wnt on to discover <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/iui\/\">iui &#8211; Google Code<\/a> based   on Joe Hewitt&#8217;s iPhone navigation work, iUI has the following features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create Navigational Menus and iPhone interfaces from standard HTML<\/li>\n<li>Use or knowledge of JavaScript is not required to create basic iPhone pages<\/li>\n<li>Ability to handle phone orientation changes<\/li>\n<li>Provide a more &#8220;iPhone-like&#8221; experience to Web apps (on or off the iPhone) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also got external links to work better. This ended up on <b><a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.name\/iphone\">ScotEduBlogs iPhone<\/a><\/b> The pages provides a list of the latest posts on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotedublogs.org.uk\/\" title=\"ScotEduBlogs news: index\">ScotEduBlogs<\/a> which can be clicked to show the contents of their rss description, link etc. I gives in my opinion quite a nice way to keep up with ScotEdublogs on your phone, you just load the page in Safari. On the iphone you can bookmark a webpage and have it on your iPhone home screen I quickly discovered (thanks google &amp; tweets from <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dalzinho\" title=\"John Daly\">dalzinho<\/a> ) that you can create a custom icon: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipodhacks.com\/article.php?sid=2494\">How To Make iPhone Webclip Icons<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/johnjohnston\/.Public\/seb_on_home.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"102\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve since discovered there is at least one other kit  for creating iPhone &#8216;web apps&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/webapp.net.free.fr\/\">WebApp.Net<\/a>. I guess since the opening of the app store on iTunes the web app development has slowed a little but it looks like an interesting area t oplay in if you have not got programming ability.<\/p>\n<p>Of course <a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.name\/iphone\">ScotEduBlogs iPhone<\/a> is pretty simple, much simpler that the demo apps it is base on, just a basic rss reader, but it has me thinking if there are any developments that could be useful in school, I believe that some schools are buying sets of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipodtouch\/\" title=\"Apple - iPod touch\">iPod touches<\/a> for use in school and this might be an easy way to develop simple specific applications for them. It  might be simple enough to create database\/ key type pages for animal or plant identification. I also wonder if pupils could create pages for the iPhone\/itouch, after seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/nwinton.wordpress.com\/\">Neil Winton<\/a> present about his pupils text based adventure game in a wiki <a href=\"https:\/\/thecavesofmull.wikispaces.com\/\">The Caves Of Mull<\/a> I wonder if something similar could be done for the iPhone?<\/p>\n<p class=\"thetags\" style=\"display:none\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/scotedublogs\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">scotedublogs<\/a> <a rel='tag' class='pivotx-taglink' href='http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?t=scotedublogs' title='Entries tagged with: scotedublogs'>scotedublogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/iphone\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">iphone<\/a> <a rel='tag' class='pivotx-taglink' href='http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?t=iphone' title='Entries tagged with: iphone'>iphone<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/rss\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">rss<\/a> <a rel='tag' class='pivotx-taglink' href='http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?t=rss' title='Entries tagged with: rss'>rss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given the September weekend weather and having a cold I spent a lot of time the weekend in front of my computer. I spent most of the time following up links from the Scottish Learning Festival and teachmeet and smoothing out some idiosyncrasies in the way that the Sandaig Primary website works. 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