{"id":63,"date":"2008-02-10T02:26:57","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T01:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/?p=63"},"modified":"2012-08-07T14:54:17","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T13:54:17","slug":"not-dead-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"Not dead (yet)"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width='100%'>\n<tr>\n<td>\nYes, yes, once again, long time and no blog. As usual, I was swamped: too many things to do, too little time&#8230;<\/td>\n<td>\n<div align='right'><img src='http:\/\/quantum-bits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/iphone-tango.png'><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Apart from the <a href='http:\/\/www.mariefrancelambert.net\/wordpress\/' target='_new'>municipal campaign<\/a> and business as usual (which keep me quite busy), I&#8217;ve been playing with my iPhone like the kid I&#8217;m pretending to be.<\/p>\n<p>Since the official SDK has not been announced yet, I&#8217;ve been testing <a href='http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/iui\/' target='_new'>Joe Hewit<\/a>&#8216;s Toolkit and Apple&#8217;s <a href='http:\/\/developer.apple.com\/iphone\/devcenter\/' target='_new'>Guidelines<\/a> to build web applications. But I was quickly stopped by the lack of available <a href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FOSS' target='_new'>FOSS<\/a> testing tools&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So, I started a new pet project: creating a small tool to simulate the iPhone embedded browser&#8217;s behaviour and test these web apps.<\/p>\n<p>Here goes an early preview of Phoney (asked by the <a href='http:\/\/www.osiatis.com' target='_new'>geek gang<\/a> \ud83d\ude09 ):<\/p>\n<div align='center'><img src='http:\/\/quantum-bits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/phoney.png' alt='ubuntu-disk.jpg' \/><\/div>\n<p>Phoney is GPL&#8217;ed and based on the <a href='http:\/\/live.gnome.org\/WebKitGtk' target='_new'>GTK+ port of WebKit<\/a> and it&#8217;s <a href='http:\/\/live.gnome.org\/PyWebKitGtk' target='_new'>Python bindings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is early pre-alpha quality stuff and uses a really dirty hack &#8482; to make the <a href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/User_agent' target='_new'>user-agent<\/a> match the iPhone&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Source code available as soon as things are somehow stabilized and a SVN account is set up.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, here goes a preview of the Tango icon (based on Jonathan Zuniga&#8217;s artwork) that goes with it:<br \/>\n<center><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td align='center'><img src='http:\/\/quantum-bits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/phone-apple-iphone.png' alt='' \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align='center'>\n<img  align='absmiddle' src='http:\/\/quantum-bits.org\/v2\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/package-x-generic.png' alt='archive' \/>&nbsp;<a style='font-size:8pt'  href='http:\/\/quantum-bits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/phone-apple-iphone.tar.gz' title='phone-apple-iphone.tar.gz'>phone-apple-iphone.tar.gz<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This, also, is a draft. Stay tuned for more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, yes, once again, long time and no blog. As usual, I was swamped: too many things to do, too little time&#8230; Apart from the municipal campaign and business as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[10,5,8,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}