Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Belgian Weather Forecast for iPhones



An "iPhone-like" webpage was generated out of the 'Belgian Weather Forecast' widget that is now available as a kind of online application for iPhone users.
The conversion went surprisingly well mainly due to the fact that the widget is merely a simple webpage that is built up by some JavaScript function executions and the injection of remote data that is being fetched from a server with some Asynchronous HTTP requests.
And since the mobile version of the Safari webbrowser fully supports this technology the main source part of widget could simply be reused.

De widget's style was slightly adapted, mainly with better(bigger) fonts which should improve the readability on iPhones.

Extra info and scripts, were found on the website of Joe Hewitt's fantastic IUI project. This lib also contains some scripts that could make the widget even more iPhone-like by make the transitions from a previus to a next forecast by the use of horizontal sliding.

iPhone users go here for testing

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