[OpenLayers-Dev] iPhone Support

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Hi Bruno,

Thank you for putting up the sandbox. I was able to use that and make 
some changes that you might be interested in. If you are interested in 
adding them to the sandbox, I can make a patch against a clean version 
of the sandbox.

I added mouse events to the buttons so they work also in FF.
I modified the button creation code so you can pass {text: "string"} and 
string will be drawn as the button label

Here is a link [1] to what I got working. Be patience it takes a long 
time to load over my DSL line and none of the JS is packaged up. You can 
also load it in FF and the buttons and pan works with the mouse. Ignore 
the Search functionality, I have not hooked that up yet.

[1] http://imaptools.com:8080/iphone/index2.html

Regards,
   -Steve

Bruno Binet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry for the late response.
> I recently worked on the Camptocamp mobile sandbox to provide a mobile
> interface with simple search functionnality for one of our customers.
> This sandbox is based on patched versions of IOL and iUI libraries.
> - IOL [1] is the OpenLayers mobile library initiated by OpenGeo which
> is able to handle touch events for example. Given Tim response on
> previous OL mobile thread, IOL is not targetted to be pushed in
> OpenLayers, but OL browser event handling stuff should rather be
> revisited so that OL could work transparently on mobile devices. So I
> think that future efforts on mobile should put directly in OpenLayers.
> - iUI [2] is a ui library which mimics the iphone interface.
> 
> The sandbox has been tested with webkit mobile devices only (iphone OS
> and android). It was designed to work only on mobile devices, so that
> we could drop many dependencies and reduce the size of the js build.
> So you're right, we haven't tried to make it work transparently on
> desktop browser like firefox.
> 
> Hope this clarifies the situation.
> Cheers,
> 
> Bruno
> 
> [1] http://projects.opengeo.org/mobile
> [2] http://code.google.com/p/iui/
> 
> On 5 February 2010 22:38, Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com> wrote:
>> Hi Devs,
>>
>> I have been looking into iPhone support for OpenLayers and have found:
>>
>> 1) sandbox/camptocamp/mobile/ which looks promising and got it working
>> 2) http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/1994 (the demo is gone)
>> 3) are there other OL specific resources, examples?
>>
>> I was wondering if this is actively being worked on by someone? who?
>> Is there a list of mobile browser that are targeted for support?
>> My Acer NetBook has touch gestures but I haven't look into how these are
>> presented as JS events.
>>
>> One thing I noticed with the camptocamp sandbox is that the page does
>> not work in FireFox from my desktop. I am assuming that there is no
>> browser detection and code to handle mouse events in place of touch events.
>>
>> In general I'm interested in where this is going and would be interested
>> in testing things as they get added to trunk or sandboxes.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>   -Steve
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