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 have noticed something not mentioned much elsewhere when testing the PubCrawler on various devices. It is how much screen space is devoted to a web page. This is not a simply dependent on screen size as these screenshots show: iPod Touch/iPhone 3.0 HTC Dream/T-mobile G1 Android 1.5 HTC Hero All the devices have the [...]
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 [...]
My first mobile web app is PubCrawler. It finds pubs in your location automatically and can show you a route around them. Navigate from pub to pub and save the number of pints drunk in each. Crawls are saved for viewing later. Its being developed in HTML, CSS 3.0 and JavaScript using Google Gears GeoLocation, [...]
