JAIPHO beta

JAIPHO is javascript based web gallery inspired by original iPhone Photos application. With JAIPHO, your website gallery will be optimized for iPhone users. It is suitable to be installed on both mobile and standard websites which have any kind of image gallery.

JAIPHO beta - Javascript image gallery for iPhone

March 21, 2009 by Tole

One of the most impressive iPhone achievements is the Photos application. Taking advantage of big screen, gestures, gyroscope and most important: extra good user interface it is just miles away from ordinary cell phones.
There is one more another iPhone killer feature: Safari browser. It actually made for first time in history, mobile surfing really usable. You can browse the mobile, as well as standard websites and enjoy in it.

But what is the situation when you are browsing some web images gallery?

Using Jaipho with iUI

August 9, 2009 by Tole

In this article, we will step by step integrate Jaipho, Pipho and iUI. Purpose of this article is to see how to use Jaipho/Pipho in multi galleries environment, and how to implement a different designs.

The whole source which cames out as result of this steps is attached to post.
Live demo can be found at http://www.jaiphodemo.info/pipho-iui/.

Summarized, we will create iUI based page which will contain list of all our galleries (index.php), and we will change Jaipho based page to fit the iUI digg sample design (gallery.php).

Pipho 1.01 - Images sort order

August 9, 2009 by Tole

This version mostly implements features which in past period few users requested.
New features:

Sorting
Till now, gallery images were shown only in filesystem order. Now through PIPHO_SORT_GALLERIES_ and PIPHO_SORT_IMAGES_ constants (6 in total), you can specify in which order your, both galleries and photos, will be displayed on screen.

JAIPHO 0.52 - Javascript history patch

July 24, 2009 by Tole

There is bug in Safari browsers while interpreting javascript document.location.replace() method. Instead of just replacing the loaction, it also appends history. Result is that after you navigated in Jaipho through slides, pressing Back in browser will return you through slides back (still in Jaipho), instead returning you to original page you came from (gallery list, news article ...). Several users contacted me regarding this annoying behavior.
This version offers patch for this problem.

Pipho - PHP image gallery for iPhone

Or, what happens when Jaipho meets PHP.
Although Jaipho is meant to be used as secondary image gallery script, some of my colleagues convinced me that there should be server side solution too. They just wanted to upload photos on server and let the script do everything else.
Pipho is exactly that. It reads photos from desired folder, on the fly creates resized thumbnail and slide images, and dumps Jaipho javascript read images part. In addition, it supports text files as descriptions for both, gallery and slides.

In short, Pipho is a PHP Jaipho implementation example.

Try Jaipho demo in emulator mode with your iPhone

April 27, 2009 by Tole

There are two variants of Jaipho demo page. One is the real Jaipho and you can see it if you access demo page www.jaiphodemo.info with your iPhone. Another variant, iPhone emulated version, will be shown at the same address if you access with your browser on your desktop computer. In emulated version Jaipho itself is opened in iframe. If you saw both versions, you might ask yourself, can Safari in iPhone display the "emulated" version and how it will behave? Is the javascript support that much good?

Now you can try it for your self. Just grab the iPhone and click on this link http://www.jaiphodemo.info/?forcewebdemo=1

JAIPHO 0.51 - Improved image preloading

April 15, 2009 by Tole

Here is second beta release. As major change it brings better user experience on loading both thumbnails and slides in your gallery. Here is the list of all changes.

Jaipho changes
Upgraded images preloading system - javascript JphUtil_Preloader class. It preloads slides, so when user triggers next button the image will already be prepared. There are few changes in it comparing to previous version.

AdMob report - iPhone blows competition in mobile Internet usage

April 1, 2009 by Tole

In the report for February 2009, AdMob reports that iPhone holds 50% US smartphone Internet traffic and 30% on worldwide scale.
I saw some critics that it stands only for showing ads by AdMob and that AdMob publishes much ads on specialized iPhone apps which most are not accessible on other devices at all.

But there is another thing which is not contained in their reports: AdMob does not shows ads on regular websites, and that is where iPhone completely blows of competition. Although Symbian and the others usually have capability to show standard websites, it is simply not usable enough. Symbian users just don't use their devices for Internet browsing. Ok, they browse mobile web, but that segment is still small comparing to the usual net.