Database API support, for client-side databases using SQL.
Application cache support, for offline applications.
Geolocation API support, to provide location information about the device.
<video> tag support in fullscreen mode.
Great, no more fiddling with Gears just for Android’s sake. Let’s hope they adhere to the relevanthtml5–specs the same way Apple does, so you don’t need to do differentiate between iPhone os3 and android 2.0 when creating offline-capable web-apps!
Off course there’s more than just html5 in this new Android version, here’s a short video showing some of the changes in Eclair:
A couple of days ago the redesigned Facebook website was launched and I guess around the same time they also pushed a new versions of their 2 mobile sites to their production servers.
With the redesign, the “low-end” m.facebook.com seems to have stayed more or less the same. One could argue that it did not need to change, as it had all a mobile user could wish for. But the same could not be said of the “high-end” version on iphone.facebook.com, which offered not more but less functionality than little m. But that ragged iphone is gone and the new high-end mobile site, which lives on touch.facebook.com, now finally provides high-end functionality as well. A couple of screenshots, for the visually oriented (compare with previous printscreens of the old iphone-site here):
Although I miss the status-info that previously was displayed on the friends-page, this redesign in general is spot on! It incorporates many of the features that one would expect from one of the most popular mobile platfoms in the world. You can finally “like”, comment and see who already did, there’s a nice red notification-icon in the top left corner (for comments only, “likes” don’t seem to trigger a notification), you’ve got access to your Facebook phonebook (now if only there was an “export” functionality as well, loosen up Mark, it’s our data to begin with) and to the pages you subscribed to as well.
After that WP super cache config hack, your blog has a mobile section which you can tailor to your needs in the WPtouch config screen. These are some of the settings I changed:
removed categories and tags from the header (didn’t seem to work anyhow)
added most of my pages to the dropdown menu in the header
So you’ve finally received your Google Wave invite, you logged on and now you’re feeling utterly lost and alone? Don’t worry, everyone does at first. Here are some tips & tricks that might help you to surf those waves fearlessly.
You can play with the other kids in public waves, just enter “with:public” in the search box, optionally combined with one or more keywords.
You can make your own wave public as well:
add “public@a.gwave.com” to your contacts (last time I checked pressing the submit-button didn’t work, but hitting ‘enter’ on your keyboard does the trick)
add that ‘public’ contact to the wave you want to make publicly accessible
optionally add tags to your wave for easy discovery
Those public waves sure are great, but there’s always a but!
Making an entry public can cause a lot of people to come on by (esp. if you’re waving in English and your wave has content that those darn geeks might search for).
And your passers-by automatically have read & write access to all content in your public wave.
You can add all sorts of non-human actors to your wave as well. Your can find a non-exhaustive list of such robots and gadgets on http://wave-samples-gallery.appspot.com/. The Wolfram|Alpha robot is particularly fun to interact with; ask a question (between square brackets) and it’ll (try to) answer with a reply in the wave.
Anxious to know if there are new replies in your waves but don’t want to keep that memory hog (yep, Wave still eats RAM for breakfast) open all day long? There’s a Firefox plugin for that, which will periodically connect with Wave and display the number of new replies.
You can also access Wave on your mobile, it should more or less work on Android-devices and on the iPhone. Just go oto wave.google.com on your handset and fearlessly click through when you’re presented with a warning about browser compatibility.
But it seems rather slow, might be too much data being pumped through that 3G+ connection?
It does not work entirely on my HTC Hero; the original message in a wave shows, replies don’t. Did HTC somewhat screw up when customizing the stock Android browser?
You can find more great wave tips (with a nice cheat sheet for keyboard shortcuts) on http://lifehacker.com/5376138/google-wave-101. Just one example maybe, which might save you quite some time when you’re participating in a large public wave: press ‘space’ to go to the next unread message.
En nu we het toch over Wave hebben; een muziekje met die naam stond in 1986 op “Gone to Earth” van David Sylvian, en hoor je hier live door Sylvian en Robert Fripp in 1993:
Ik las een deel van de tekst van Wave overigens voor op onze (vrijzinnige) trouwceremonie:
I’ll run to you, nothing stands between us now Nothing I can lose This light inside can never die Another world just made for two I’ll swim the seas inside with you And like the waves, without a sound I’ll never let you down
Op zo’n moment mag je wat dramatisch uit de hoek komen, niet?
