On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Shawn Milochik <sh...@milochik.com> wrote: > On 05/27/2011 10:21 AM, Thomas Weholt wrote: >> >> I just got my hands on an iPad and was wondering if anybody has done >> any django development where the iPad was the target >> platform/browser/client? >> >> Thanks in advance and expect some django-app aimed at ipad in the near >> future ;-). >> > As someone who had an iPad for over a year, I'd say there there's really > nothing to "target." You have a very usable browser and screen size, and I > didn't have problems with any sites that I can think of.
Whether there is something to target depends entirely on the site you're writing. There are three *major* differences between an iPad interface and a browser interface that I can think of off the top of my head: * iPads don't have a native concept of "hover" or "mouseover" (because your finger can't hover, and you don't have a mouse) * iPad's have touch events, not mouse events, so anything triggering onMouseDown/Up etc, or using drag and drop won't work. * No support for Flash. Now, for many sites, this doesn't matter. A list of clickable links is a list of clickable links, no matter where it's rendered. However, if you've got dense IA or you want to deliver a web app with a rich UI experience, these differences are huge. And to answer the OP's question -- Yes, I've done some iPad app development (both native app and web); as far as Django is concerned, the iPad is just a fancy browser. The tech decisions you have to make are entirely client side (JS/CSS frameworks and so on), not server side. Yours, Russ Magee %-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
