Re: [Proto-Scripty] Re: mobile solution?
No worries, we have to start coding on this tomorrow ... if the 'default' app does not work well in Android we will make adjustments as needed. On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Phil Petree phil.pet...@gmail.com wrote: Back in the beginning (we're talking the 80's here), I wrote my first piece of code in 8086 assember and I've migrated to C (had one of the original windows SDKs), C++, ASP, .NET over to PHP, javascript and prototype etc. I'm not generally the swiftest coder out there but given enough time I can generally figure out solutions to even the most complex of problems and I can honestly say that SENCHA completely escapes me! I couldn't get a single one of their demos to work and it was nearly impossible to extend it to anything remotely useful (i.e. capturing a users location). After emailing people who claimed to have their ap up and running in 1 day and learning it was marketing hype, I finally just walked away from it... Scripty looked promising but it is being developed very slowly... painfully so... I've looked at a number of other silver bullet solutions and nothing really exists. I finally relented and hired a shop to write the mobile apps. It would be nice if someone would write a nice device abstraction layer but I dont see that happening... at least not a freebie! LOL On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 1:27 AM, cilsil...@gmail.com wrote: I think android specified by Joe still †ђξ production options Jimmy. Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN -Original Message- From: joe t. thooke...@gmail.com Sender: prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:44:58 To: Prototype script.aculo.usprototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com Reply-To: prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com Subject: [Proto-Scripty] Re: mobile solution? Er, Android 2.3.7 ... D'oh! On Nov 18, 9:43 pm, joe t. thooke...@gmail.com wrote: i may have the wrong impression, but my tinkering on scripty's demo page has been...unimpressive. i'm using Android 2.4 so far, hardly any of the mobile/touch demos work. In fact, from the touch-demo page: These demos are optimized for the Starlight browser, iPhone Safari 3+, Desktop Safari 4+ and Firefox 3.5+. Support for IE is incomplete at this time. The scripty2 multitouch support is not final, it's a alpha-stage implementation. This means there's several restrictions and known bugs that prevents it from being used in a production environment. Honestly, i don't think Prototype has been active enough to warrant a mobile version. There are several recent threads that discuss Prototype's current status future. To my knowledge (which comes mainly from observation of this group), there's not much call for a mobile Prototype. Scripty looks like the best bet, and its development cycle is pretty slow. Which isn't a knock against the people involved. Life is life, right? Hope that informs, as i'm sure it hardly helps. ;) -joe t. On Nov 18, 6:31 pm, Jimmy Brake isu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of a lib that can extend Prototype so it's like sencha touch, jquery.mobile or has anyone been using scripty in production? I presently only need to support ipad's. However over time I plan on supporting all smart phones and tablets. Thanks, Jimmy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Prototype script.aculo.us group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Prototype script.aculo.us group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Prototype script.aculo.us group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Prototype script.aculo.us group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en.
Re: [Proto-Scripty] Re: mobile solution?
I think android specified by Joe still †ђξ production options Jimmy. Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN -Original Message- From: joe t. thooke...@gmail.com Sender: prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:44:58 To: Prototype script.aculo.usprototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com Reply-To: prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com Subject: [Proto-Scripty] Re: mobile solution? Er, Android 2.3.7 ... D'oh! On Nov 18, 9:43 pm, joe t. thooke...@gmail.com wrote: i may have the wrong impression, but my tinkering on scripty's demo page has been...unimpressive. i'm using Android 2.4 so far, hardly any of the mobile/touch demos work. In fact, from the touch-demo page: These demos are optimized for the Starlight browser, iPhone Safari 3+, Desktop Safari 4+ and Firefox 3.5+. Support for IE is incomplete at this time. The scripty2 multitouch support is not final, it's a alpha-stage implementation. This means there's several restrictions and known bugs that prevents it from being used in a production environment. Honestly, i don't think Prototype has been active enough to warrant a mobile version. There are several recent threads that discuss Prototype's current status future. To my knowledge (which comes mainly from observation of this group), there's not much call for a mobile Prototype. Scripty looks like the best bet, and its development cycle is pretty slow. Which isn't a knock against the people involved. Life is life, right? Hope that informs, as i'm sure it hardly helps. ;) -joe t. On Nov 18, 6:31 pm, Jimmy Brake isu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of a lib that can extend Prototype so it's like sencha touch, jquery.mobile or has anyone been using scripty in production? I presently only need to support ipad's. However over time I plan on supporting all smart phones and tablets. Thanks, Jimmy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Prototype script.aculo.us group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Prototype script.aculo.us group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en.
Re: [Proto-Scripty] Re: mobile solution?
Back in the beginning (we're talking the 80's here), I wrote my first piece of code in 8086 assember and I've migrated to C (had one of the original windows SDKs), C++, ASP, .NET over to PHP, javascript and prototype etc. I'm not generally the swiftest coder out there but given enough time I can generally figure out solutions to even the most complex of problems and I can honestly say that SENCHA completely escapes me! I couldn't get a single one of their demos to work and it was nearly impossible to extend it to anything remotely useful (i.e. capturing a users location). After emailing people who claimed to have their ap up and running in 1 day and learning it was marketing hype, I finally just walked away from it... Scripty looked promising but it is being developed very slowly... painfully so... I've looked at a number of other silver bullet solutions and nothing really exists. I finally relented and hired a shop to write the mobile apps. It would be nice if someone would write a nice device abstraction layer but I dont see that happening... at least not a freebie! LOL On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 1:27 AM, cilsil...@gmail.com wrote: I think android specified by Joe still †ђξ production options Jimmy. Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN -Original Message- From: joe t. thooke...@gmail.com Sender: prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:44:58 To: Prototype script.aculo.usprototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com Reply-To: prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com Subject: [Proto-Scripty] Re: mobile solution? Er, Android 2.3.7 ... D'oh! On Nov 18, 9:43 pm, joe t. thooke...@gmail.com wrote: i may have the wrong impression, but my tinkering on scripty's demo page has been...unimpressive. i'm using Android 2.4 so far, hardly any of the mobile/touch demos work. In fact, from the touch-demo page: These demos are optimized for the Starlight browser, iPhone Safari 3+, Desktop Safari 4+ and Firefox 3.5+. Support for IE is incomplete at this time. The scripty2 multitouch support is not final, it's a alpha-stage implementation. This means there's several restrictions and known bugs that prevents it from being used in a production environment. Honestly, i don't think Prototype has been active enough to warrant a mobile version. There are several recent threads that discuss Prototype's current status future. To my knowledge (which comes mainly from observation of this group), there's not much call for a mobile Prototype. Scripty looks like the best bet, and its development cycle is pretty slow. Which isn't a knock against the people involved. Life is life, right? Hope that informs, as i'm sure it hardly helps. ;) -joe t. On Nov 18, 6:31 pm, Jimmy Brake isu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of a lib that can extend Prototype so it's like sencha touch, jquery.mobile or has anyone been using scripty in production? I presently only need to support ipad's. However over time I plan on supporting all smart phones and tablets. Thanks, Jimmy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Prototype script.aculo.us group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Prototype script.aculo.us group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Prototype script.aculo.us group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en.
Re: [Proto-Scripty] Re: mobile solution?
That's to bad .. hopefully someone will come along soon and tell us different. ... On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 6:44 PM, joe t. thooke...@gmail.com wrote: Er, Android 2.3.7 ... D'oh! On Nov 18, 9:43 pm, joe t. thooke...@gmail.com wrote: i may have the wrong impression, but my tinkering on scripty's demo page has been...unimpressive. i'm using Android 2.4 so far, hardly any of the mobile/touch demos work. In fact, from the touch-demo page: These demos are optimized for the Starlight browser, iPhone Safari 3+, Desktop Safari 4+ and Firefox 3.5+. Support for IE is incomplete at this time. The scripty2 multitouch support is not final, it's a alpha-stage implementation. This means there's several restrictions and known bugs that prevents it from being used in a production environment. Honestly, i don't think Prototype has been active enough to warrant a mobile version. There are several recent threads that discuss Prototype's current status future. To my knowledge (which comes mainly from observation of this group), there's not much call for a mobile Prototype. Scripty looks like the best bet, and its development cycle is pretty slow. Which isn't a knock against the people involved. Life is life, right? Hope that informs, as i'm sure it hardly helps. ;) -joe t. On Nov 18, 6:31 pm, Jimmy Brake isu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of a lib that can extend Prototype so it's like sencha touch, jquery.mobile or has anyone been using scripty in production? I presently only need to support ipad's. However over time I plan on supporting all smart phones and tablets. Thanks, Jimmy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Prototype script.aculo.us group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Prototype script.aculo.us group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en.
