{"id":13,"date":"2010-12-28T18:07:36","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T18:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yeschefgame.mkurtz.com\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2010-12-28T18:07:36","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T18:07:36","slug":"why-a-webapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yeschefgame.mkurtz.com\/blog\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"Why a WebApp?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the short answer is that I don&#8217;t want to learn Objective C in order to write a proper iOS app :\u00c2\u00acD<\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;m already familiar with HTML \/ CSS \/ PHP \/ MySQL I figured why not just use that to cobble something together. In addition I figured that there are a couple of other ways to add some value to the game by making part of it online:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can include a lot of different types of media as part of the game (images, sounds, video etc) which you couldn&#8217;t if it was simply printed.<\/li>\n<li>You can continuously add to the pool of questions &#8211; and even open this part up to anyone who is interested in contributing.<\/li>\n<li>Since the game is controlled programatically, you have the opportunity to introduce some random elements which would be difficult to do otherwise<\/li>\n<li>You can use it (almost) anywhere you have a connection to the web<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So with that in mind I figured that what I came up with would basically be a series of static web pages that would serve the purpose but not be as polished as a real app. Boy was I wrong! Turns out that taking advantage of webkit which the iOS uses, and it&#8217;s support of HTML5 and CSS3 you can create something that is indistinguishable from a compiled app! Here are a few resources I found which were great help:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sixrevisions.com\/web-applications\/designing-web-apps-for-the-ipad\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Designing Web Apps for the iPad<\/a> by Stephen Vescio was invaluable in terms of describing the general approach as well as some of the limitations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sixrevisions.com\/web-development\/html5-iphone-app\/\" target=\"_blank\">How to make an HTML5 iPhone App<\/a> by Alex Kessinger is another awesome project page which includes bits and pieces which I used to get Yes Chef! up and running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the short answer is that I don&#8217;t want to learn Objective C in order to write a proper iOS app :\u00c2\u00acD Since I&#8217;m already familiar with HTML \/ CSS \/ PHP \/ MySQL I figured why not just use &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yeschefgame.mkurtz.com\/blog\/?p=13\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeschefgame.mkurtz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeschefgame.mkurtz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeschefgame.mkurtz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeschefgame.mkurtz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeschefgame.mkurtz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeschefgame.mkurtz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeschefgame.mkurtz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeschefgame.mkurtz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeschefgame.mkurtz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}