Good old PubCrawler. I have somewhat neglected my duties in maintaining this web app. However, I recently completed the migration to Google Maps API V3 for it. Advantages of this include: Automatic display of controls based on device. For example zoom buttons are displayed on Android devices but not on the iPhone (because it has [...]
I’ve been neglecting the PubCrawler a bit recently because of my current widget fetish. I made one quick change to it last night though. It now has HTML5 geolocation for browsers that support it. I tested it in Firefox 3.5 beta 4 which is a bit flakey when it comes to the geolocation stuff even [...]
I have updated PubCrawler to use HTML 5 client side storage. This is supported by iPhones and iPod Touches with firmware 2.0 and above. It means that these devices can now save crawls. For Android phones a Google Gears database is still used. It took me a while to get the HTML 5 DB working [...]
PubCrawler now has manual location functionality. When Google Gears is not installed it falls back to asking for location in a JavaScript prompt(). With or without Gears on the map screen the location can be changed with a new button. Another minor change is the removal of the map buttons at the bottom for everything [...]
