What’s going on?
Although we had very nice weather the last couple of days I was able to make some more progress on Wiki2Touch, the offline Wikipedia reader for the Apple iPhone/iPod touch devices.
Over at Google code they are doing some maintenance work so the Wiki isn’t available. Usually I track changes over there.
Beside some bugfixes I’ve added support for <imagetag> tags (sometimes used as {{#tag:imagetag|…}} as well). Tapping on these image maps isn’t support yet but they are at least displayed. You can see some of these types of images at the bottom of this screen shot:
A sort of an “On screen display”
More interesting is for sure the shinny black menu in the middle of the screen. It appears and disappears once you tap somewhere on the screen (you must not hit a link). Now you can easily go to the TOC, the top or bottom of the article or back to the search page. For those who like to extend this “menu”: It’s a simple <div> tag so you may add what you like.
Any more suggestions what I should add to this panel?
Once you’ve jumped back to the search page it will now show you the last search result. That’s even true if you reached the page due to an icon on your home screen or a bookmark entry. The last search phrase is stored by the server, together with the language you have used.
And if you have more than once language installed you know see a drop down box to choose a language as the one you like to use:
GUI support for multiple languages
Sure, if you have only one language installed the select box is hidden.
If everything turns out fine I will release the updated version on the next weekend.
April 24th, 2008 at 22:29
Wow, that’s a great idea with the popup menu. Wonderful!
And the multiple language support is a great step, too. Thanks, Tom.
Personally, I prefer the layout that sAt posted in the forum
http://shup.com/Shup/38185/chooser.png
The chooser does not take so much space if it only shows the two letter code, and it’s a bit more intuitive to work from left to right: First choose the language, then type the article name. Just my personal opinion, what do others think?
April 24th, 2008 at 22:32
…and just because you asked: Of course I would love to see the links to online Wikipedia and to iPodia in that wonderful menu
Then I wouldn’t have to tweak it with every new version.