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[TomD2222]

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I know that you can watch TV on your ipod/iphone/ipad but not many people know about this service to make it popular try releasing a basic iphone app or are you in the process of doing that?

[TVC_Colwal]

Not at the moment as current trends are moving away from apps, and TBH I cannot see what benefit this would have, this would mean that we would have to make massive investment in server costs due to the increase in traffic which we could not predict.
At the moment we are keeping up with steadily increasing demand and also keeping a safety buffer for moments of heavy traffic i.e. England football games and alike.

But we are however not saying never, just not at this present time

Also the optimised page offers a lot more flexibility than an app as can it can be quickly adapted, to say for example add a TVGuide.

[Jonathan]

What I'd prefer is that web app mode is enabled and the status bar is set to black. Also it would be nice if the channel logo buttons, that the silver background is done by CSS gradients, rounding and shadows, and that actual logos are SVG files (see the wikipedia pages) That all results in less stuff to download, and it looks better while downloading, and it looks much much much better on the retina display. It's all pixelly now.

[TVC_Colwal]

I will see if it is possible that we can make some improvements

These are very good ideas actually love the SVG files

[Jonathan]

I actually made the changes myself on a local html file, though I couldn't quite get the logos in the center of the button.

Some, like the web app and black status bar are part of the pages source code, but they're commented out.

Something like this:
http://goo.gl/z128

(logos I got from wikipedia, except the BBC One logo, all of them on the screen shot are SVG and the grey buttons are made using CSS rather than images, it's also a webapp so no Safari UI and the status bar is black (it's unfunctional btw in that you can't log in nor pressing the buttons will take you to the channel , I didn't copy any of the javascript, I hope TVC don't mind I copied the HTML but what else am I supposed to do when I have homework )

[Jonathan]

Just wondering if anything had been done with the "HD" idea. I could upload the file I created?

[TVC_Colwal]

All I can do is pass it on Jon and give our thanks for doing it.

[Jonathan]

Well here's the file: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2969879/default.html
What I've done is,
used the SVG images from wikipedia
Used CSS to create the buttons
Added the loader image for the webapp (like you intended I'm guessing)
web app icon is "HD"
Black status bar when you make it a web app.
Adding it to the homescreen makes it a web app, not just a shortcut.
You can't select anything (the black bar with copy that appears with blue highlight)
Holding on an element doesn't being up the copy/Open/open in new tab action sheet.

I modified a copy of the Cyrene TVC but removed all the script so it's not functional but the design works. Though better copies of the SVG files should be made as some do not go well with background. I also noticed that in Chrome the SVG files don't look quite right some of them look horrible but they all lol good on mobile safari.

Btw, it would be nice to have a "tv guide" for the iPhone. It would be quite easy to adapt the iPad channel list into an iPhone channel list.

[heyadrian]

There are a few issues...

1) CSS is very browser dependant. Netscape (Mozilla), IE and Safari handle CSS and render it in different ways. As usual Microsoft have tried to start their own standards.
2) KIS (Keep it simple). Why make life difficult with extensive CSS code etc... when it's alot easier (for designers and the recipient browseres) to handle optimised JPEG images.