New release of WPhone; more devices to be compatible with the plugin (4)
Stephane Daury, a “web architect”, has released along with 2 other developers a new version of WPhone, a plugin for wordpress that allows iPhone and iPod Touch owners to visit and use wordpress blogs within a specially designed interface.
Like the new facebook iPhone interface, the new interface is specially designed to the device: it’s lightweight in size, buttons are bigger for better functionnality, main sections are highlighted, and it’s also optimized for the iPhone’s screen resolution. Because Apple’s products and WPhone caters to the same people (web geeks), I expect this plugin to be popular and be widely adopted. Wordpress administrators will get an additionnal functionnality and user interface for free, and focus instead on writing content.
As the version for iPhone is now somehow stable, Stephane Daury is now looking to extend the plugin to other mobile devices, like Nokia N60 series, Blackberries, Windows Mobile etc.. If you have any of the listed device, leave a comment on his blog.
Thanks for the post guys. :)
PS: it’s not exactly a matter of extending the functionality to other devices. The dual support mode is at the core of the strategy, but we are looking forward to making it better for non-iPhone users, with better styling when CSS is supported, etc.
Woohoo! We wan. :o)
http://wphoneplugin.org/2007/11/13/and-the-winner-is/
Nope, I’m not posting this to gloat ['k, maybe a little], but mainly because I do have to thank you guys too, since we did get a few very useful testers (most likely) through your post.
So thanks! :o)
And on a final note, if anyone is developing for mobile devices and wants to bank some time testing on an iPhone, reach me at wordpress[at]tekartist[dot]org and I’ll try to do for you like others have done for us.
hey stephane, i don’t get this? you won for…? i found the blog post wasn’t clear. was that a competition?
LOL, I though Matt had gotten that when he posted. :)
It started as one, but evolved into much more.
The project started as a challenge on the wp-hackers list:
http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2007-September/014399.html
Which led to me replying with a joke, then suggestions:
http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2007-September/014405.html
Then Matt Mullenweg, aka Mr. WP, picked up on the thread and made it juicy by making it a competition with iPhones as prizes.
http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2007-September/014432.html
So my 2 american teammates and I randomly teamed up and made WPhone as our entry.
Then it turned into much more, with us deciding to actually go further and just support all web capable devices, down to my crappy little Motorola v551.
And now I have the Android SDK downloading to see if we can support the rich interface on it. :)
And we’ll release 1.4.1 tonight, with better support for Nokia devices.
Now if only I could get to my own blog and post about it. ;) Soon…
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