I've just installed the iPhone and iPod Touch compatible theme/plugin for Wordpress (iWPhone) by Content.Robot, and have no way of testing it. There's a Safari iPhone browser emulator available if you're running a mac, but alas, I'm a PC guy.
So, hence this call for testers; Is anyone out there able to hit this site and check it with an iPhone or iPod Touch? If so, and you have a spare moment, I'd appreciate a quick note/comment etc that you did and what your experience was like.
There may be one complicating factor...I'm also running Alex King's excellent Wordpress Mobile Edition plugin (which works great for most mobile browsers), but I'm not sure if it'll conflict, take over, or handoff nicely to the iPhone.
So please, if you're iPhone enabled, let me know how this blog looks (or even send a screen shot, if you can)! It would be appreciated.
Or, actually, if you're mobile enabled and have a free moment, a screen shot of this site on your mobile browser too would be appreciated. I'm planning a follow-up to this post and will include shots received in it.
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I shall do so. Once I have an iPhone. Which could be — man, feels like forever, this “waiting for an iPhone in Canada” thing.
Heh, I heard the rumour of October: http://ca.blognation.com/2007/09/10/latest-iphone-rumour-iphone-in-canada-in-october/
Or — the rumour of “not even close”: http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/09/12/rogers-wireless-puts-canadians-on-hold-for-iphone/
Assuming Passport Canada does as they should, I’ll be in Boston and picking up an iPhone* next weekend. If all goes well, I’ll get it back across the border and “cracktivate” it for Canadian use / send you a proper screenshot. Since Mobile Safari on the Touch/iPhone uses WebKit and iPhony is only a skin for the WebKit framework, I can almost guarantee that they will show up identically in “zoomed out” mode.
Wide view of the blog: http://bayimg.com/IAgEkaAbp
Tall view of the blog: http://bayimg.com/iagelaaBP
Safari 3 beta is out for Windows, I believe– you’ll also get the exact same rendering engine via that. It should support page zooming as well (or will come October when it’s finally complete), so you can simulate the Touch/iPhone viewport size there.
* (minor rant on) The only thing the iPod Touch will have going for it is a slight bit of thinness over the iPhone and more mostly-useless storage (in that for most people it will either be far too much, or far too little); what the Touch lacks are a camera, a microphone, a speaker, bluetooth, calendar *input*, the mail app, the notes app (first iPod in 3 generations that hasn’t had Notes), and a few others.
Sure the iPhone apps are cross-compatible so people will move the apps over to the Touch within a week from now or sooner if Apple doesn’t say it will, but Apple has basically only agreed to non-aggression, and not actual support. Even if they did finally give support for developers, and a proper SDK (yeah, maybe next year), the Touch seems to be a pretty limited platform without all the extra hardware. The first iPhone app I know I’m out to make will be for voice memos.
@Chris: Yeah, I know..Not that I’m in any rush…I may pick up a few 2GB cards for my Palm TX and I’ll be happy. I don’t mind having single purpose gadgets (Cel, Nano, Palm). Also provides security. If Cel is out of juice, I can still access my contacts/calendar in my Palm.
But yeah, I do want to play with the iTouch some day…but, as Doug mentions, it needs a few more apps.
@Doug: Thanks for those shots! And thanks for that ‘minor’ rant. I’ve been reading similar and agree, the product really needs to mature or provide seamless integration to iCal, Google Calendar, Outlook etc before it can achieve wide scale acceptance.
Looks great on the iphone.
And the name is correct — I’m also Brad Grier — found this site when I typed in my old domain name of bradgrier.com.
Whoa! Sorry about the tardy reply Brad — this one seems to have slipped through somehow…Cool name though ‘eh?