http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2008/08/15/building-an-open-worldcat-app-for-the-iphone/ Resources for librarians who are interested in the application of web design and technologies in libraries Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:11:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2008/08/15/building-an-open-worldcat-app-for-the-iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-63105 Gordon Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:58:01 +0000 http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/?p=777#comment-63105 When you are deciding what shape this app should take, please factor in a way for it to not need to store any data on the user's iPhone. Until Apple gets all the current (as of Sept. 7, 2008) bugs out, all the data-holding iPhone apps are unstable. They are dropping data upon publishing updates and even sometimes upon sycs of the user's iPhone with its local computer. Go for storing and retrieving data from a web server. For other readers, warning; don't become reliant upon the data held in your iPhone by a third-party iPhone app. Your data may vanish the next time you plug the phone into the computer. When you are deciding what shape this app should take, please factor in a way for it to not need to store any data on the user’s iPhone. Until Apple gets all the current (as of Sept. 7, 2008) bugs out, all the data-holding iPhone apps are unstable. They are dropping data upon publishing updates and even sometimes upon sycs of the user’s iPhone with its local computer. Go for storing and retrieving data from a web server. For other readers, warning; don’t become reliant upon the data held in your iPhone by a third-party iPhone app. Your data may vanish the next time you plug the phone into the computer.

]]> http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2008/08/15/building-an-open-worldcat-app-for-the-iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-63015 Bruce Washburn Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:24:49 +0000 http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/?p=777#comment-63015 We think an iPhone app for WorldCat is interesting too. We’ve been doing some thinking and experimenting with that idea on the API team, and would really like to hear more about the shape you think a WorldCat iPhone app would take. And you noted a question about how widely you could distribute your app, based on the API Terms. Could you tell us more about how you think your application might present a conflict? We think an iPhone app for WorldCat is interesting too. We’ve been doing some thinking and experimenting with that idea on the API team, and would really like to hear more about the shape you think a WorldCat iPhone app would take. And you noted a question about how widely you could distribute your app, based on the API Terms. Could you tell us more about how you think your application might present a conflict?

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