Status of Big5 and this Group

[gsb]

Looking at Google code and the frequency of posts here, it looks like
interest in Big5 is waning, no? ...anyone?

I am new to here and was interested in trying Big5 Lite b4 I tried
Big5. But is it worth the trouble if the product is no longer
supported/maintained?

Let me know please.

greg

[sha...@hotmail.com]

It looks dead to me greg -- i've been waiting for a reply to my answer
for a week now ;-)

I'm not sure if any of these let you create an app on windows -- but
here are the choices i've found:

LiquidGear - http://www.liquidgear.net
Big5 - http://www.big5apps.com
PhoneGap - http://www.phonegap.com


Good luck ;-)

[gsb]

Yes Shaz:

"It looks dead to me greg..." I agree.

Little interest shown of late, but still available at iTunes...
hummmm.
I wonder what's up with that.

" I'm not sure if any of these let you create an app on windows..."

No windows app or framework will build an acceptable iPhone app. - is
as designed by Apple.
Best you can do is to develop a web site and configure it to an iPhone
look-a-like app. This is easiest done with one of the many HTML /
CSS / JavaScript frameworks. This can be saved to the iPhone desktop
for a full screen look-and-feel. Add in a "manifest" for local
content caching and it can run off-line as well. But it is still in
the Safari browser's "sand-box" and as such, out of reach to the
iPhone 'native' functionality - location, camera, local data storage,
etc..

However, feed the same web site's link to Big5 and Big5 will wrap the
site in an iPhone "wrapper" - an iPhone run-environment wrapper that
exposes much of the iPhone's native functionality to it via a simple
JavaScript API of sorts.

This is the best you can do for now from the PC-Windows platform.

Greg

[gr...@gypsytrader.com]

Yes. Is what I was thinking.

No. No windows framework will enable you to create a 'native' iPhone
application. Is Apple's way.

Best you can do is a web site using an HTML, CSS and JavaScript
framework to iPhone'ize it into a smooth, stand-alone iPhone web app.
Big5 is a run environmet that adds access to some of the iPhone built-
in functionality to such built web app's.

Not the best but a good alternative to try I think.

Greg


Sent from my iPhone

On Oct 20, 2009, at 9:59 AM, "sha...@hotmail.com"