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iPhone-optimized web app (demo)

ehurtley said:
Well, I tried loading it on my Palm OS device with the rather lackluster "Palm Web Browser 2.0.3", and it doesn't load. :-( I figured it would be a good resolution test, since it's a 480x320 device.
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Sorry about that - it intentionally won't load in any browser but Safari. My only purpose in this was to create an iPhone app, and testing it in other browsers would have been pointless (and time-consuming, and boring). Without testing it, I don't want people to pull it up in, say, Firefox, and start complaining about layout and JS issues :)

But that was a great idea, to test it like that. Thanks!
 
Very cool....

It would be even cooler to make it so you could have the option of logging in or like a one time use so you dont have to log in... so you could be a registered user and you could save shopping lists make custom lists, send to other iPhones etc. you could make a widget for your mac that would log in to the account create a shopping list and then when you log on from you iPhone you would have the list there.... just some thoughts

also you might consider getting the domain www.onetrip.mobi

but you have a great web app!
 
I really like your app.

Here is my question, my wife calls me at 10am and gives me a list of 10 things to pick up at the store. I enter those thru your app. Then I exit Safari, take phone calls, play music, etc. on the iPhone.

If I go back to safari will my list still be there?
 
fishkorp said:
you better hope you have an unlimited data plan then, otherwise it could get very expensive if the browser stays open all the time.
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it doesnt cost to leave a browser open. just to download data/webpages. Leaving this page open wouldn't use any data allowances, unless its implimented with the logggin-in and store online people suggested above

maybe you could store a file locally (cookie?) on the iPhone to save your list. but hopefully you can make 3rd party widgets, with their own storeage space for a list.
 
Thanks for all the feedback and suggestions. Let me reply to a few points:

- OneTrip is a very, very small application. There's only one page to load (other than the info page) and it never needs to be reloaded. Opening it once and leaving the tab open *should*, if my understanding of Safari on iPhone is correct, let you use it, even if you lose your Internet/data connection. That's the way it works on the "desktop Safari" - if I load the page and turn AirPort off, I can still use it (some images won't show up, but I can fix that easily. Still a work in progress!)

- Storing lists in cookies or on a server is a really good feature and it wouldn't be difficult to implement, but I don't want to get ahead of myself before I see how this actually looks and works on iPhone.
 
You read the future!

You can claim to be the first dedicated iPhone app developer now. In the WWDC keynote, it was revealed that your method is apparently as of now the only official method for developing iPhone apps!

(And yours has a very iPhone-esque look to it, too. Make sure to find somewhere to submit it to Apple so it can be one of the first in the list of iPhone apps! You know, the same way they have a list of Dashboard Widgets, I'm sure they'll have a similar list of iPhone apps.)
 
This app looks good, an improvement I suggest is that in the item list view, there should be an option (a little X) to delete the item without having to click edit.

Good work!
 
neven said:
Since there will be no third-party apps for iPhone in June, I thought I'd try creating a web app that would run like a widget on iPhone. You would surf over to it in Safari on iPhone, and it would fill the screen nicely to look like a "real" iPhone app. By that I mean, it shouldn't get scaled down, and it's small and compact

Here it is:

OneTrip - an iPhone shopping list.

It will only work in Safari (obviously). Comments? Do you think it will be a worthwhile effort to create such iPhone-ready websites?
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I am VERY impressed with that! I like simple the interface is, and does everything you need. I would suggest putting a "return to list" button, so while into a sub-category you can get to the list without going back twice.

I would also recommend trying to find a way to compact the code as much as possible. After all, we will be using it on EDGE. I would recommend having a compressed HTML version which removes all extra white space, line breaks and change variable names to be as small as you can. (for Javascript and div id's) I know it sounds silly, but every little tiny bit helps.

Without a doubt I will use your app once I get my iPhone. I also look forward to other apps you might develop for the iPhone.
 
Oh snap! I so called it :)

False modesty aside, I think my app is better and more iPhone-esque than the directory they showed in the keynote.

Thanks for all the suggestions - I'll see what I can do. I agree about the need for a "Home" button. Not so sure about deleting directly in the list - too easy to accidentally do. The delete functionality is based on the demo of iPhone's Contacts functionality. My idea is that people will mainly be 1. adding 2. checking off 3. clearing the whole list. But I could be wrong!
 
I truly wonder how many ideas steve jobs gets from reading these forums. This is the second idea that was posted several weeks ago, and then appeared in a mac product
 
Rhema said:
I truly wonder how many ideas steve jobs gets from reading these forums. This is the second idea that was posted several weeks ago, and then appeared in a mac product
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I think that they get some, I think that I saw the Leopard Dock in someone's photoshop mock up of their idea, and also didn't someone post the coverflow finder saying that they had created it in photoshop a week or so before it was announced.
 
About the OneTrip file size: the entire thing, including images, JavaScript, and stylesheets, is 14.7 KB. Stripping away the whitespace only removes about 1 KB so it's hardly worth doing. I think this should load very quickly even over EDGE.
 
Was trying to find this thread after the keynote to say good call and congrats to the forward thinking.
 
Nice app buddy.

It may be the first 3rd party app to hit the iPhone!

Did you spell your last name right on the credits?

Also, it would even be better to introduce a healthier, greener selection of food. Apple and iPhone users will likely tend to be more health conscious, don't you think?

Hell, why not write a health diet program that allows the user to enter all his/her bios and stats, and then computes and tells the user what to eat for each day of the week in order to become or stay healthy? Better yet, the program would update the user on his/her progress (assuming he/she sticks to the diet plan) whenever the users wants an update. This would make sense since iPhone is something you carry around.

If I were you, I would be calling Atkins diet and all the diet companies out there to offer to write the program.

Now, whoever implements this idea, please give credit or royalty payment to me for coming up with this idea.

Much thanks.
 
zgh1999 said:
Nice app buddy.

It may be the first 3rd party app to hit the iPhone!

Did you spell your last name right on the credits?

Also, it would even be better to introduce a healthier, greener selection of food. Apple and iPhone users will likely tend to be more health conscious, don't you think?
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I agree that the selection is a little weird now. Abstracting something as big as an entire store into a few items in a few categories ain't easy! If you have specific suggestions, I could definitely use them.

The last name is one-hundred-percent correct; as my website tagline says, I've been missing vowels since before the likes of Flickr and Tumblr thought of it!
 
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