Thursday, December 10th

Showtime, the iPhone web app

maniacalrage:

Neven Mrgan:

Nial Giacomelli has done a bang-up job with Showtime, his web app for keeping track of your favorite TV shows. It’s not fabulous “for a web app”, it’s fabulous period.

I’ve complained before about web apps versus native apps and how web apps can’t compete for the most part, but Showtime shows how great a web app can really be. Simple, focused, well designed, with good interaction and thoughtful features.

Just want to mention that Showtime is actually powered by my iPhone jQuery plugin jQTouch. As to John Gruber’s second point (the on/off needs to be tapped): This is fixable, and on its way for jQTouch beta 3. I agree on a separate point, though, scrolling performance with web apps seems seriously inhibited on the iPhone—my only guess as to why is the additional memory needed by having a DOM, Javascript interpreter, etc. (compared to a native table list). Hopefully advances in the iPhone’s hardware and mobile WebKit will nullify this point in the next year.

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