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> I couldn't even write a program on it, much less save it on the local file system. Can you not save text files on the iPad? That's pretty much the only thin
by ido 17y ago
> I couldn't even write a program on it, much less save it on the local file system.
Can you not save text files on the iPad?
That's pretty much the only thing you need for a js application that runs in safari (which these days has a wicket fast js interpreter and supports the canvas, webgl, audio & video tags).
- barrkel 17y agoNo, it's not obvious to me how one writes a JS application, saves it, and runs it on the iPad.
- jodrellblank 17y agoAbout the only thing I can think of would be: A website that you go to with a live JS edit/run cycle, saved on the server on the fly, EtherPad style. An option to have it email the code to your iPad email address as a clickable link which is a javascript bookmarklet. An option to have it save the javascript as a bookmarklet/link which you can on the home page. This is a hack on the iPhone - encode a PDF into a Javascript bookmark and sync it to Safari's bookmarks (i.e. http://pimm.wordpress.com/2007/07/18/how-to-read-pdf-files-on-iphone-via-safari-instead-of-lame-email-attachments/ http://pimm.wordpress.com/2007/07/18/how-to-read-pdf-files-o... ). Maybe if the server had a way to remember or reopen and tidy your code it would be closing in on PG's RFS#5. You can't cron-job anything, and you can't work with any language other than Javascript unless you make a server side to->Javascript compiler for it. Another user suggested that there is now or soon to be inter-app file transfer, so depending on how that is implemented it might open other venues.