[Seaside] iSea Problems (Seaside-App for iPhone)

[Lukas Renggli]

> Any body developing iPhone web-apps with seaside?

Yes, I did implement some applications.  iSea never worked for me
though. Cool for a demo and a quick prototype, but too limiting and
slow for a real application.

I wrote some complex application using jQuery for Seaside, see the
screenshot on slide 69 in this presentation
http://www.slideshare.net/renggli/seaside-the-revenge-of-smalltalk.
The problem is that the latency of the network is generally too high
to get a snappy application, even when it was used on a WiFi network
that was directly connected to the server.

In the end I learned Objective-C, CocoaTouch and bought an Apple
developer license. Manual garbage collection is painful, but the
result is perfect.

Running Pharo locally on the iPhone would probably solve the network
latency issue. I haven't tried that yet though.

Lukas

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Lukas Renggli
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