On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Alan McIntyre <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 9:26 AM, David Kirkby <[email protected]> wrote: >> I thnk the trick to any sort of application on a phone like this is to >> make the interface have the bare minimum. (no links to home-pages, no >> description. Just the bare essentials. Using CSS, it is quite easy to >> get a browser on a small mobile device see a different page to that of >> a larger computer. >> >> I think the current web based interface is too cluttered to use on a >> small device well, though I have not tried. My PDA has long since >> died, and I don't own a Blackburry of high-end phone. All I use my >> phone for is making telephone calls. I think it can browse the web, >> but I've never tried! > > For what it's worth, I just tried logging into sagenb.org on an > Android phone, and it was pretty usable. The list of active > worksheets wrapped nicely and I didn't have to scroll horizontally; > the top of the page was a little bit cluttered for a phone display, > but it's still acceptable (to me, anyway). > > The results of show() on a worksheet didn't always work, but I didn't > spend enough time looking at it to figure out why. As with the view > in a full-size screen, it would be nice if the show() output could be > wrapped automatically (assuming there's not an option to do that > already and I've just missed seeing it). > > Plotting a function worked just fine, and the default plot fit exactly > in my display horizontally, with only about 10% cut off vertically > (which again seems just fine to me, given the display size). > > All in all, if I found myself somewhere without a laptop and needing > to do something in Sage, I expect I could get by with just my phone. >
Do you have "tab completion" with the Android phone? That's something that is annoying lacking when using sagenb.org from iPhoneOS devices. Something, which I plan to somehow fix! William -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
