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How to Make an HTML5 iPhone App
You've been depressed for like a year now, I know. All the hardcore Objective-C developers have been having a hay-day writing apps for the iPhone. You might have even tried reading a tutorial or two about developing for the iPhone, but its C—or a form of it—and it's really hard to learn.
I don't want to say that you should give up on the objective: you can get it eventually. But in the meantime, there is something else that you can do.
You can create a native app that lives with all the other apps, and for the most part, it's going to be a pitch-perfect imitation.
You can do this with the skill set you probably already have: HTML(5), CSS, and JavaScript.
I'll show you how to create an offline HTML5 iPhone application. More specifically, I'll walk you through the process of building a Tetris game.
What am I talking about when I say "offline"? Well, it means that we have a custom icon, a custom startup screen, a native look-and-feel, and you can use the app even when the phone isn't connected to the Internet.
The app should be as functional as it can when it is offline, just like normal native mobile apps.
This is a tutorial specifically for iPhones but most of these techniques apply to all phones that have HTML5-capable browsers.
Yeah, I mean it, check out the following image. It has no URL bar and no navigation at the bottom. It looks just like a native mobile application.
You are going to need access to a server where you can change the HTTP Headers on your files. This is because we need to take advantage of HTML5's offline caching (more on this later down the page).
Apache does this really well and you can just add something to a .htaccess file and it will just work. Here's a tutorial on modifying HTTP headers using htaccess.
Once you've built your app, you should turn this off so that you will get the full experience when testing your HTML5 iPhone app.
About the App
Icon and Startup Screen
The icon needs to be 57px x 57px.
The iPhone will round the corners of your icon, create a dropshadow, and add a shine to whatever icon you use.
It should be in PNG or JPG format.
Here is what I used for the tetris game.
The startup screen needs to be 320px x 460px and should also be in PNG or JPG format.
Here is what I used for the startup screen.
Some tips before you start
Stay small, sparse and simple.
- Small: This is mobile app development so even though you are caching your stuff, it's still a smart idea to keep your file sizes lean.
- Sparse: You should try to keep the amount of files you deal with as low as possible.
- Simple: Start with a few simple ideas and execute it. By keeping your scope small, you can get things done faster.
Application Cache
This is a new standard, you can read the spec here.
Application caching allows browsers to determine in advance all the files a web page will need for the web page to work.
It will cache those files (to a fault, sometimes). The syntax of this file is simple: just list the locations of your files in either absolute (e.g.
http://yourwebserver.com/picture.png) or relative to the manifest file (
/picture.png). The browser will keep those files offline.
You can also list a few URLs that should not be cached, but this isn't pertinent for our offline app (if you're interested, read about this in the documentation).
One tricky part to this whole thing is that the manifest (the list of files that need to be cached offline) has to be passed with a
filetype Header set to
text/manifest. That is why you need access to a web server that can set HTTP headers.
Screen Size
A quick note when designing your application: When you are in app mode, you have a screen size of 320px x 460px. When you are in web mode, it has a screen size of 320px x 356px. This can affect the user interface of your offline HTML5 app.
Here you can see the difference side by side.
It's a real browser so your HTML is exactly the same. The iPhone browser is also in the forefront of HTML5, so dig into the spec.
For more in-depth detail, check out the Safari Developer's corner:
Let's get coding
The app starts by defining your markup. here is the markup for my Tetris app.
<!DOCTYPE html> <html manifest="tetris.manifest"> <head> <meta name="viewport" content="user-scalable=no, width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0"/> <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" /> <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black" /> <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="iphon_tetris_icon.png"/> <link rel="apple-touch-startup-image" href="startup.png" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="tetris.css" type="text/css" media="screen, mobile" title="main" charset="utf-8"> <title>offline Tetris</title> </head> <body> <!-- Put your Markup Here --> <script type="text/javascript" src="tetris.js"></script> </body> </html>
First, notice the
Doctype. Isn't HTML5 awesome?
manifest="cache.manifest" property on the
<html> tag is how the browser knows that we want to cache this web page offline.
There's proprietary Apple markup on our HTML5 page. A brief explanation of each:
apple-mobile-web-app-capable: This is another tip-off that we want to be an offline app.
apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style: This hides the status bar, and nav bar when the app is offline.
apple-touch-icon:This is the pointer to the image that want to be the icon.
apple-touch-startup-image: This is a url pointing to the startup image.
Also note that you should put CSS at the top and JavaScript at the bottom (best practices still apply here).
It's almost the same as a normal web page. There are some specific
-webkit CSS rules that you can use that do some really cool things like animation, but this is a quick-and-dirty guide and that's outside of the scope of this article.
The CSS is just Plain Jane.
body { overflow:hidden; background: #d7d7d7; margin:0; padding:0; } #tetris { width: 320px; height: 460px; background:#000; }
The style is really just to the
div element on our web page to make sure it fits in the iPhone's viewport properly.
In general, JS functions work just fine on the iPhone—there are exceptions though. Think about something like a mouseover, the event exists on the iPhone, but I am not sure how helpful it is when you don't have a standard pointing device (such as a mouse). Quirksmode posted an article about events on the iPhone that is really helpful.
When you have all of that, you can test it out but opening your
index.html in an iPhone, and you should be able to see everything work.
Then, next step is to server it from an actual webserver that can set the proper settings on the
Then you could be able to add it to the home screen and have all the extras, and see the offline mode.
You can see a working version I have set up at:
Bonus Section: Offline Data
Along with the ability to keep files that are needed offline, you can also store user data in an offline database. There are two major APIs for per user and/or per page data. The first is
localStorage, is an easy to use key-value store with a dead simple API.
localStorage.dataToStore = 5; console.log(localStorage.dataToStore); // 5
You can use this for storing the user's score, for example.
The second is actually an offline SQL engine, a webdatabase. The APIs are a little more advanced. Here is a little of you will see.
// Try and get a database object var db; try { if (window.openDatabase) { db = openDatabase("NoteTest", "1.0", "HTML5 Database API example", 200000); if (!db) alert("Failed to open the database on disk. This is probably because the version was / bad or there is not enough space left in this domain's quota"); } else alert("Couldn't open the database. Please try with a WebKit nightly with this feature enabled"); } catch(err) { } // Check and see if you need to initalize the DB db.transaction(function(tx) { tx.executeSql("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM WebkitStickyNotes", [], function(result) { loadNotes(); }, function(tx, error) { tx.executeSql("CREATE TABLE WebKitStickyNotes (id REAL UNIQUE, note TEXT, timestamp / REAL, left TEXT, top TEXT, zindex REAL)", [], function(result) { loadNotes(); }); }); }); // Insert a test Note. var note = { id: "1", text:" This is a test note", timestamp: "112123000", left:10, top:10, zIndex:2 }; db.transaction(function (tx) { tx.executeSql("INSERT INTO WebKitStickyNotes (id, note, timestamp, left, top, zindex) VALUES / (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)", [note.id, note.text, note.timestamp, note.left, note.top, note.zIndex]); }); // Get all the notes out of the database. db.transaction(function(tx) { tx.executeSql("SELECT id, note, timestamp, left, top, zindex / FROM WebKitStickyNotes", [], function(tx, result) { for (var i = 0; i < result.rows.length; ++i) { var row = result.rows.item(i); var note = new Note(); note.id = row['id']; note.text = row['note']; note.timestamp = row['timestamp']; note.left = row['left']; note.top = row['top']; note.zIndex = row['zindex']; if (row['id'] > highestId) highestId = row['id']; if (row['zindex'] > highestZ) highestZ = row['zindex']; } if (!result.rows.length) newNote(); }, function(tx, error) { alert('Failed to retrieve notes from database - ' + error.message); return; }); });
Wrap Up
There is lot that can be done with offline HTML apps. Games, like tetris, are even possible, but you would probably want to consider what you want to do and make sure its right for an offline app. Quake 3 Arena, probably not. A to-do list app, definitely.
Let thousands apps bloom!
- W3C Offline Application Cache docs
- How to create offline webapps on the iPhone
- The HTML5 offline cache safari
- Backchannel: an Offline-Capable Web App for the iPhone
- iPhone offline webapps – a desk on iPhone apps.
- A disscussion of offline events by John Resig
- Getting Started with iPhone Web Apps
Related Content
- 10 Useful Gadgets for Mobile Computing
- A Quick Look at Mobile Web Designs
- The Remote Designer: How to Work While on the Road
- Related categories: Web Development and User Interface
About the Author
This was published on Mar 26, 2010
172 Comments
Sachin Mar 26 2010
I simply love this……Yahoooooooooooooooo!
Matthew Heidenreich Mar 26 2010
very creative article, nice job Alex.
Ben Mc Mar 26 2010
Excellent article! This mostly works for the Android as well.
TimHolmesDesign Mar 26 2010
I had no idea you could develop an app for the IPhone using HTML5… soooooo cool and opens it up to so many more who don't have the C skills.
Cheers for the great post.
insic Mar 26 2010
Superb tutorial. Thanks for sharing.
tom Mar 26 2010
Nice and simple tutorial, will be using this information very shortly
Haeussler3968 Mar 26 2010
Very cool, I really enjoyed it. Do you know of somewhere I can read more about it?
dolce Mar 26 2010
awesome – very interesting article
A. Cobo Mar 26 2010
Genious use of new and upcoming web standards
Graphpix Mar 26 2010
Thanks ;)
Ched Mar 26 2010
Is it possible to submit your app to the Apple AppStore? Or is it just a web app?
Guhan Iyer Mar 26 2010
Very intriguing article. I would caution folks using this technique to keep the Javascript light weight due to the memory restrictions on the iPhone. Thanks for posting!
BBL Mar 26 2010
great !!!!
Alex Kessinger Mar 26 2010
No, you can't submit these kind of apps to the app store. Though you can look up this thing called phonegap, and run these kinds of apps inside and iPhone app, and then submit them to the app store.
naefaaxx Mar 26 2010
Askar Sabiq Mar 26 2010
whoa, very nice tuts !
selvagk Mar 27 2010
Another Dave Mar 27 2010
Great tutorial, thank you!
Although you should remove any references to the name of the game, which might be trade marked.
Mahmudur Rahman Mar 27 2010
Very understandable and well explained tutorial. Thanks for sharing this nice post. :)
Eric Perduel Mar 27 2010
Some people just don't learn. Go ahead, repeat all the mistakes done with IE, browser sniffing, etc.
Next articles:
How to Make an HTML5 Symbian App.
How to Make an HTML5 MeeGo App.
How to Make an HTML5 Android App.
How to Make an HTML5 WebOS App.
How to Make an HTML5 Blackberry App.
How to Make an HTML5 WinMo App.
How about following the W3C specs (widgets, HTML5, CSS3)?And stop using proprietary sh*t which is EXACTLY as idiotic as doing something with ActiveX or for IE specifically?
Bruno Daniel Mar 27 2010
Great post, thank you. A quick tip: in your demo, the user can swipe and the whole screen will move, but this is easilly fixed by adding this meta tag:
Bruno Daniel Mar 27 2010
Hmm, seems the comment won't accept HTML. Here's the tag with brackets:
[meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, user-scalable=no" /]
Hans Mar 27 2010
Very cool artikle and no restriction from Apple. thx for the work.
adkarta Mar 28 2010
wow,,,never thing that this is possible.
Bartosz Oczujda Mar 28 2010
One important question. Can you do it on a PC? And submit it to the app store?
Doug Montgomery (Douglife) Mar 28 2010
Alex, I've been doing some research on creating apps, and even to a coder some of the stuff is intense. Cocoa, ObjectiveC, etc. I wasn't looking to create a whole game, just some great features for clients with Iphones. This has done it for me my friend, and I thank you.
Great tutorial by the way, well detailed, and to the point!
zpjet Mar 29 2010
@Bartosz: yes you can. Download and install Safari, go to Preferences > Advanced, turn on Develop menu, then you can change user agent to iPhone. You also don't need iPhone to test it – iPod Touch is the same Mobile Safari device.
Alessio Bellisomi Mar 29 2010
Cool, but Perduel's suggestions should be seriously considered
Aleksander Aas Mar 29 2010
Make sure to lay of the -webkit- nonsense and HTML5 apps are the future!
Jasper Mar 29 2010
You can also use http://www.appcelerator.com/ to convert it into a real app, with native capabilities.
Nikos Mar 29 2010
Nice Article. Thanks for sharing!
jacopogio Mar 29 2010
as usaul, Alex, a very very good and interesting post !
Waiting for my android HTC tu upgrade to 2.1 to try something similar ;-)
Brady J. Frey Mar 29 2010
Thanks for this, there were a couple here I'd yet to hear of!
On an odd note, I know you may have copied and paste the code, but some of your tags are xhtml although you're calling an html5 doctype. Now, it won't necessarily mark you wrong, but it may warn you in a validator as bad habits and unneeded (see some of your meta and links).
Vector king Mar 30 2010
I was abit scared at the beginning with all the http stuff but I managed to pull trough . Thanks Alex
stphen Mar 30 2010
well very nice techniques you have explained in order to develop HTML iphone app, very nice post with very exclusive content. thanks for this awesome post.
jaw crusher Mar 31 2010
It is good.
kv Apr 02 2010
Not Q3Arena, and not demonstrated on a mobile device but someone's getting close..
Original Quake in HTML5
Ashwin Apr 03 2010
Very nice article. Awesome intro to all HTML5 iPhone newbies like me. Thanks for sharing :)
Steve Judd Apr 03 2010
Thanks for this. I used your tutorial to guide me in building an "app" to help pick door prize winners (or other random numbers) for our users' group meetings. Works in any compliant browser, and works offline on my Droid and iPod touch.
Andy matthews Apr 03 2010
I thunk you should be a little more clear about the fact that is NOT an IPhone app, but an hmtl5 web app that's cacheable on the iPhone.
wolf Apr 05 2010
Hi Andy,
wonder if jquery transition effects for images would be a problem. I assume not, since this would practically be a web app – right?!
Theron Burger Apr 05 2010
Awsome! Am def going to give this a try!
Another MAJOR plus is not having to go through the app store. You can make your app do whatever you want and apple cant do a dam thing about it.
@Eric Perduel
I am new to this and want to learn, I would prefer to learn the standards and make it cross platform. SO… why not tell us what is wrong with his code (according to you) so that we can lean. That's what this is all about, learning, in a fun, collaborative way.
LabsMs Apr 06 2010
Thx for post.
I want to learn Html5 for use iphone and ipad
Giacomo Ritucci Apr 08 2010
I can't find anything on Google about the "filetype" header. May it be "Content-Type"?
Also, I can't find the "text/manifest" MIME Tipe, but I found the "text/cache-manifest" content type that seems the one we are looking for.
Can someone confirm?
Giacomo Ritucci Apr 08 2010
I managed to set the "text/cache-manifest" MIME type with the following .htaccess directive
AddType text/cache-manifest .manifest
It seems that mod_headers cannot set the Content-Type header.
BK Apr 18 2010
Nice tutorial. I was Googling on how to create app for Apple iPhone. I couldn't agree more with you that "C—or a form of it—and it's really hard to learn." It is really not easy especially for someone with no programming background.
Chad Smith Apr 19 2010
Great post! Thanks for making the effort to put a number of disparate HTML5 references into a concise post with a cool code example.
Roy Smith Apr 28 2010
It's worth noting that there are a number of development tool companies now offering cross platform development (iPhone, iPad, Android) based on HTML5,CSS,JS. appMobi(from FlyCast) and AppCelerator both do this.
Kaithy Aravind Reddy Apr 30 2010
Very good technical article for a device on a new concept. please post complete code for above thanks.
Jonathan Stark May 15 2010
Nice work! You might want to add -webkit-user-select: none; to the controls. Cheers!
Lang Zi May 17 2010
Very interesting article. You created an icon and startup screen for the app but they're never been used in this article. My question is if it's possible to create an icon in your iphone screen to make it just like a normal application.When you click the icon your application will be launched.
Lang Zi May 17 2010
Please ignore my questions. I found the answer by myself. But I got another question. Is it possible to add the icon to home screen by program. For example, the user access your web site and find your application. You add a link like "installing the application" which will add your icon to iphone's home screen. The next time users will be able to click this icon to launch your app offline.
Richard Jun 03 2010
Is there a way to hide the status bar completely?
sreedhar.R Jun 08 2010
Nice article
Jean-Philippe Jun 09 2010
Thanks Alex. Nice article.
By the way, do you know any HTML5/Webapp-capable repositories where we can publish and get some snipets ?
I wrote a basic iPad layout, which adapts itself depending on device orientation. Anyone to help me getting it improved ?
I'd be pleased to share.
Bitelchux Jun 14 2010
My first html5 game, compatible with iphone, ipad, android and desktop pcs
Laurie Cope Jun 18 2010
This is great. Just about to start iphone app development this will come in handy for web apps. thanks
Joshua Jul 01 2010
Great article. What have you found to be the practical limit to the ammount of data that can be cached on the iPhone?
Fuzebit Jul 02 2010
Excellent article. Working example is great.
hitesh vaghela Jul 09 2010
It's very fine article for basic fundamental Knowlenge
Xeno Jul 17 2010
Does not work for me using the iPhone G3S with software version 3.1.3 and Safari
Perhaps an update by apple stopped this bit of fun?
On my own server, using your example site, and also over at whatreallyhappened.com, I can only view in Safari as a web page, but not as an app.
Anyone get this to work recently?
Mike Jul 17 2010
How about showing us one with flash code? Considering the latest EU actions against apple, it looks like they'll be forced to accept them on the iApps store soon enough.
Brady J. Frey Jul 18 2010
No one cares about Flash, Mike, even with the court debate. Besides, as bloated, proprietary code, you will be forced to use their paid flash application to build and render it. Buy flash and experiment, no need for a tutorial- that's the same as me teaching you cobalt, it's vintage quaint.
Brett Jul 21 2010
Great article but I believe you are overlooking a much better reason to use HTML5 over Objective C to develop. That reason is it offers the only way for your work to be cross platform. What do I mean by this, if you write in HTML5 generically then it can run in Iphone, IPad, Droid and whatever else is thrown our way coming up. Even Blackberry is moving to WebKit which will support it. This opens up a whole lot more market to one written in something that is already cross platform. If you write a big bloated application in Objective C and discover you could make more money having an Android version too then voila you now have to rewrite the whole thing from scratch. However, this isn't the case writing it with HTML5. That is why it is key to use especially in the long run. Now if building an app good idea to have a backend code in any other language you want, Java, C#, etc and use REST services or jsps or whatever.
Also, Steve Jobs said it would be over his dead body before he will allow Flash to run in IPhone which pretty much puts Adobe's product into crapville.
MO Aug 03 2010
Great post! Thank you so much Alex
Quick questions, if the website that your working off is a CMS site running with Joomla how do you know what files to include in the manifest? Does this even work with CMS. Basically to make the site look like an app and to be able to flick through the pages of the site while still in the app screen?
flashmac Aug 12 2010
Ironic, I've just jumped from your HTML5 tut on nettuts (was googling your' viewport' tag) and landed here! Man your everywhere!!
Mr personal HTML5 hero today!
Joe Aug 13 2010
Look at this:
optimized for iPhone/PC, also runs with HTC Desire
Michael Persson Aug 16 2010
I have study the HTML5 from 2008 and had some interesting experiences, this is a little new and of course interesting to start trying. HTML5 is a FLASH KILLER and only that is very interesting for practice…
Krun Sep 03 2010
After hours trying to find out what was wrong with my app, I found a little mistake on the article :P The header for Content-Type must be set to "text/cache-manifest" not text/manifest! And a little advice, using php (which most servers allow) you can just create a php manifest and add header(Content-Type: text/cache-manifest); at the beginning :)
And my best congratulations for this article, it really helped me to start developing web apps for iphone :)
mamal Sep 05 2010
vinay Sep 13 2010
hey nice stuff… thanks for share…
Nuri Sep 17 2010
Very well written article, thank you! There might be a typo:
[The manifest="cache.manifest" property on the tag]
Should it be manifest="tetris.manifest"?
Megaman Sep 18 2010
Cool stuff, keep it comin :)
I fully agree with Brett about the cross-platform capabilities. Enough with the proprietary crap and hurray HTML-5, JavaScript based apps. If you can deliver games for your web site and port them to any mobile, what would be more cool? Create once, use everywhere =D at least almost.
Food for thought.
P.S. Watch the movie Trashin from eighties, it's a fun movie that has nothing to do with this article but it's about skating and being young, about freedom and a girl to fight for ofcourse =D
Pawan Sep 20 2010
Thanks for the article.
How are you opening the site when you are testing it locally?
dodo Sep 22 2010
I have no idea what you are talking about but would love to understand the database crap that ringleaderdigital keeps putting on my iphone I hesr it is html5 also
Sarah Jones Sep 23 2010
I was planning to recruit one Developer to develop an HTML app for my i phone. This article made it easier, thanks
sohbet Sep 26 2010
thank you very nice posts
Rajviji Oct 01 2010
It's very nice, i am very enjoyed..
Grant Oct 01 2010
A) How do you install a webapp? If you can't install it why does it have a icon/loading screen. What use is the icon?
b) How do I even run his game on my iPhone 3G 3.1.3? I went to it in safari and it keeps the address bar and bottom navigation. How do you change between Web Mode and App Mode?
iPhone 3.1.3 User Oct 04 2010
@Grant: Go to the "+" in the bottom Bar to add as Bookmark, then select "Add to Home Screen". Done
Brinley Ang Oct 06 2010
You should update your urls to Safari references to use the host name developer.apple.com instead of its ip address.
Ishan Oct 14 2010
Hi folks,
If you're developing a HTML5 web app for iPhone Safari you might want to checkout http://bugabooapp.com — it's a primitive debugger for iPhone Safari.
Eugene Black Nov 04 2010
Alex, nice article, was very helpful, saved plenty of time for me!
Few things to share:
1. I'm checking Sencha Touch for building HTML5 for iPhone – looks wonderful, works perfect
2. Instead of debugging on iPhone Safari I use Chrome with it page analyze and debugging capabilities. Much better then Firebug
3. Added it to home screen – now nobody can distinguish between native app and my app!!
+no app store required
+works on Android as well
jbohaj Nov 05 2010
Please tell that, Whether it is a Web Application? Or it is a iPhone Application?.
Whether this Application can be Run on iPhone, without using Phonegap & without submitting to Apple App Store?
Eugene Black Nov 07 2010
1. It is Web Application.
2. It is HTML5 Web Application
3. When link to application added to home screen (it behaves 100% like native application. Just click the icon and open you app. No Safari's address bar/
4. No App Store required
1. Navigate to you app site
2. Tap "+" on Safari's status bar
3. Select "Add to home screen"
4. Review icon and app title
5. Tap add and enjoy your app
jbohaj Nov 13 2010
@ thanks. Eugene. What is the Role of iPhone to play this application.
Oak Hall Nov 21 2010
Hi get tutorial. Got me started. When I add to home screen and launch my "app" works great, if I click on a link that is included in the manifest it launches safari. Anyway to keep in in the "app" like enviroment? Thanks Oak
Oak Hall Nov 21 2010
I meant great not get
Driz Nov 24 2010
I feel kinda dumb for asking this, seeing how many people were able to accomplish this tut before me…but I have no idea how to "serve" the manifest with a filetype Header set to text/manifest. What does this mean? How do I write it? and where does the code go?
I'm trying to convert a mobile site to HTML5 so that I can show off an app I designed for a senior project (I don't have an iPhone, only an iTouch…and the university doesn't have WiFi access). The only way to accomplish my presentation is to somehow cache the pages.
This tut is exactly what I need, but I can't seem to get it to work. Please help.
Jonny Oenning Nov 30 2010
This works for the ipad using versions previous to the i0s 4.2. However does not work after updating to 4.2. Does anyone know why? has apple broken the html 5 offline stuff or has it changed?
Any help appreciated.
long.vu Dec 01 2010
How can make a website can play audio files (.mp3) on iPhone? Thanks!
John Piasetzki Dec 06 2010
I believe behaviour changed as of 4.2. If you save it on the homepage it doesn't cache (I'm not sure that it ever worked). A work around is to use base 64.
atomicca Dec 07 2010
awesome thing you wrote..
and i assume its web apps things right ?
or its iphone apps ?
Samueles Dec 15 2010
Hi all,
I am searching for an application to convert a HTML project to a Macintosh application (like "HTML 2 executable" for windows).
Any clue?
thank u very much in advance!
jt Jan 07 2011
hi there,
I got a naive question for a beginner, hope you don't mind answering.
I see that your app is on one single webpage, and it works well to "save to home" on an iPhone for offline use.
However, how to do it with the whole website. Let say you want to make an iPhone app that catch 15-20 pages to work offline as an app.
Million Thanks,
Gary Jan 21 2011
Very interesting article about the capability of HTML5 on mobile apps.
Rory Jan 25 2011
Started coding with HTML 5 this year…and I ain't ever going back.
Nice article explained excellently…
Mike Jan 27 2011
anyone have any luck caching any type of audio file for an ofline iPhone webapp?
Montana Feb 07 2011
Actually HTML5 is not best for all developers…
Obj-C has full access (camera, hard drive, accelerometer, gyroscope, compass, and mic). HTML5 can't (except the accelerometer, gyroscope (on the 4th gen iPhone and iPod touch) and the iPhone 3GS/4 compass).
Also, Webapps can't do push/local notifications unless the user already has a native app installed on their device that allows the Webapp to do that.
Also, as previously stated, only apps written in Obj-C can be submitted to the app store. Sure, Apple has a Webapp directory, but it doesn't get as much traffic as the App Store.
Montana Feb 07 2011
Also, you should add a CAPTCHA to block spambots. Not that you have any, but as a preventive measure.
Carl Feb 08 2011
Nice Job. Realy cool!
Carl Feb 08 2011
Nice Job. Realy cool! Thanks
SohoInteractive Feb 10 2011
Great tutorial, very inspiring. Thank you for sharing. Keep them coming.
Frank Podlaha Feb 16 2011
Hey all, this is an awesome article. For you jQuery / javascript gurus, try jqTouch for another very simple way to create websites that run on iPhones. http://jqtouch.com/
ps – This is not a plug, I have nothing to do with that company. I have used jqTouch in the past – really loved it.
JR Feb 17 2011
Hi Alex,
I'm new to HTML5 and I want to ask if it is working with IIS? using localhost? I tried creating a simple application and run it with IIS but it isn't working. I also tried uploading my files to a free web hosting site but the .manifest file can't be uploaded (I think the web hosting site does not support this file extension?).
Anyway thanks for this tutorial and thanks in advance for answering my questions.
Ed Feb 17 2011
@Frank Podlaha – Thanks for the heads up on jqTouch!
Olavi Feb 20 2011
There are out many different frameworks to accomplish what you have done with less effort and greater speed. I suggest you can take a look at LimeJS (www.limejs.com).
Tamer Feb 21 2011
even works on my Samsung JET! very helpful article, thanks…
Felipe Bueno Feb 23 2011
Hey, dude, thanks a freaking lot!!!
jackiller Mar 08 2011
HTML5 – I'm like it.
Thanks for sharing html5 tutorials and techniques.
Mohammad Mar 14 2011
How we can deal with session variables in multi-page web-app?
session will be lost when closing web-app, but in normal browser base website we have it for 20 minutes (by default)
SoeMoeGyi Mar 14 2011
What a great tutorial! I really wanna try it on iPad.
Pankaj Mar 14 2011
Great Article Alex. Does HTML5 allows access to sensors data like GPS, Compass?
Nuigurumi Mar 16 2011
It doesn't work for me while my iPod touch is not connected to wifi. I open this link: http://tetris.alexkessinger.net/
then press "Add to home screen", and everything seems all right, until I switch it to "airplane mode" or walk away far enough from the wifi router. Then it says that it could not be opened because it is not connected to the Internet. Am I doing something wrong?
Chris Mar 17 2011
What exactly is your complaint? The apple specific headers are to get Safari to hide it's bars, put an icon on the homescreen, and to throw up a splash screen. -All are proprietary to how an iPhone starts an app, none of which is likely to be defined by the W3C. And the goal of this tutorial is to look like a native app.
You also will encounter issues with float, margins and the like and end up scrolling f you don't set the size of the screen to the exact viewport.
So where exactly did the author miss the chance to be any more generic and grounded in standards?
DEJAY Mar 23 2011
Greg Mar 25 2011
I'm having the same issue as Nuigurumi, the application here: http://www.thecssninja.com/demo/offline_webapp/
seems to work offline once you dismiss safari's dialogs, it doesn't open full screen from the desktop though (it opens inside a safari tab).
The demo application from the tutorial here brings up a dialog that forces you to either go online or exit the application, it doesn't give you the option to just use the cached version.
Greg Mar 28 2011
Update: Apple has crippled web apps that launch from the home screen, here is an article written about it.
DC Web Design Mar 31 2011
great tutorial! I really wanna see this in better theme
Dave Apr 01 2011
I'll save somebody 2 hours of diagnostic work:
On iOS 3.1.3 (highest my first-gen iPod Touch can go), tags for hiding the safari bars ONLY work if the page is named index.html.
On higher versions of iOS, pages can have any name and these tags will work as expected.
Benjamin Apr 04 2011
Great article! However HTML5 is not supported by all browsers yet. And i am waiting for browsers who support the phone's native functionalities like tilt and camera. We made a list of all kinds of mobile (wapp) sites in all kinds of fategories: http://www.wappstart.com.
Vaibhav Gupta Apr 12 2011
very nice to start with basic ideas…
Thank You man.
Gaurav Mishra Apr 18 2011
Thanks! just completed the one on the same HTML5 based iPhone App.
As The take away will be looking to implement some of the points mentioned in refinement phase.
Thanks! once again :)
James Apr 22 2011
I think that for beginners this is brilliant I was researching a lot because I wanted to create my own app, and some developers charge a lot per hour, but I think that I can manage to create my own app using HTML5.
Would you recommend any books or online courses to create small games?
Thank you,
JosE Apr 22 2011
Great tutorial.. thanks for sharing
Igor G. Apr 22 2011
Great tutorial. However, this app hardly works on a Droid. Even on an iPod touch, the touch events hardly register on the screen. Is this app responsive for you??
Stephen May 06 2011
Perfect!!! thank you!
parbat May 25 2011
very nice thing. :)
Ali May 25 2011
Thanks for the post,
I still think teaming up with a programmer is the way to go, rather than learning from scratch. But i guess if you have passion for making iphone apps, nothing should be able to slow you down…
Robert Jun 03 2011
You have got to be kidding. I tried this on an iPad 2 and it runs like a slug. If this is the future of Apps I'll stick with the past.
Mauvis Ledford Jun 08 2011
This doesn't (or no longer) works when saved to the desktop. See this post:
senthil Jun 11 2011
Thanks very much,with your help i create my website in mobile compact ability Thanks Lord……..
Ricky Jun 13 2011
Thanks, Great stuff, i'm keen on app dev for iphone & BB
Incircle Media Jun 15 2011
Thanks Alex you really did awesome job.
Gustl Jun 17 2011
I need to write an native app for iphone / ipad which i can successful submit to the appstore. With Picture Gallery, some different menus, and infos. All coming from a mysql. I need to go the normal way with imac developing tools? doesnt exist developing on pc, or webapp for this? How should i go on? Dont know nothing about developing on imac. i know php/sql/ajax/xml… What would be the best way for me? i am complete noob at this. Any help much appreciated. Thanks in advantage, greets gustl
Ubuntu Jun 28 2011
i +1 this
Marc Jul 01 2011
Alex, you are THE man. Thanks bro!
sachin Jul 08 2011
I have created web application, I just want to hide the address bar on ipad + safari 5.0. It works when i add it to home screen using below code, but when i navigate to other page it redirects me to safari browser and address bar displayed on the page.
Rex Jul 11 2011
Android platform has different screen size, may be it is difficult to do this.
Robin Nixon Jul 17 2011
This is an excellent article packed with solid advice. I hope you won't mind the plug but, in case other readers are interested, my latest book, HTML5 for iOS and Android, goes a step further by enabling you to take web apps such as these and turn them into standalone apps that you can upload to the app stores (for free or to sell) – http://html5formobile.com (the wrappers for the iOS and Android SDKs are free on the website).
sagar Jul 18 2011
I have created one website.
I opened that in safari(without completing cache 100%) and select add to home screen.
It's get add to home page and when i tried to open it (with network connection available) its gets cached again
but when it completes doing the cache (in app mode )and if i goes offline.
then i tried to open it again(in offline mode only) its asking me for the network connection.
so why its not referring the same cache?
and where does the app cache gets stored?
can you please help me with this?
Aman Jul 22 2011
Its really great article for beginners..
Andrea Jul 29 2011
Very interesting!! Thanks for sharing your work!!
Stan Aug 01 2011
May I asked a stupid question, how 'native' such an APP will be?
Can users notice 'this is a html5 app'?
Does the safari app been invoked to display this "fake webpage"? Or everything is done like a true native App?
nithin Aug 09 2011
good one….thanks for sharing
Iori Fujita Aug 12 2011
I used many things.
touchMove = function(event) { // Prevent scrolling on this element event.preventDefault();
PC to iPhone redirect:
if((navigator.userAgent.match(/iPhone/i)) || (navigator.userAgent.match(/iPod/i))|| (navigator.userAgent.match(/iPad/i))) {
if (document.cookie.indexOf("iphone_redirect=false") == -1|| document.cookie.indexOf("ipad_redirect=false") == -1) window.location = "http://www.geocities.jp/imyfujita/air/iair.html";
Many functions can be onLoaded at once:
function addEvent(eventName, func) {
if (eventName.substring(0, 2) == 'on') {
eventName = eventName.substring(2);
// for addEventListener
if (window.addEventListener) {
window.addEventListener(eventName, func, false);
return true;
// for addEventListener
if (window.attachEvent) { // IE
window.attachEvent('on' + eventName, func);
return true;
function func1() {
function func2() {
function func3() {
function func4() {
addEvent('load', func1);
addEvent('load', func2);
addEvent('load', func3);
addEvent('load', func4);
The web page is "Music in the Air" dedicated to Schoenberg and Kandinsky.
qr Aug 16 2011
Ohad Aug 19 2011
If you wish to go ahead and develop an HTML5 app with network retrieval and offline storage, to allow your app to look and behavior similarly when online and offline, read this: http://myok12.wordpress.com/2011/08/19/building-an-almighty-data-retrieval-system-for-all-html5-webapps/
sabarish Aug 22 2011
does it require internet connection for the first time.? if yes, can we develop applications which does not require internet.??
macrao Aug 22 2011
Hi, I have a application built on adobe flex/flash and now we want to take this application on to mobile devices like iPAD etc..
what is the best way to convert the current application from flex/flash into HTML5 so that it can run on mobile devices?
Thanks in advance..
jack Gao Aug 29 2011
thanks for this doc!!!
Akanksha Urvashi Sep 08 2011
I found this article very helpful…..thanks a lot.
I have a doubt…why some applications are not compatible on iphone but its working on ipad perfectly??
RR Sep 13 2011
you dont need to convert it to html5. Use Flash builder 4.5.1 and adobe air to package ypur application for amy mobile platform.
el Sep 19 2011
very simple, i llllove it!!
James Sep 23 2011
Nice tutorial, can I just ask though, you say it's a HTML5 web app, so how would I make money from it ?
I would want to make an App that could be downloaded from the app store, so how would I change the game to be able to download from the App store or would I need to use a completely different programming language for it to work in ?
James Sep 23 2011
Good tutorial, How would you turn this into a downloable app where you could charge people to download it ?
Would that have to be written in another programming language ?
mark Sep 28 2011
it works on my site thanks for sharing it such a big big help thanks again
Colin Sep 28 2011
So I tried this out, but I can't seem to actually use it offline. I browse to the website:
On my iPad or iPhone, and while the browser window is open the app still runs, but if I close the browser window…then what?
I tried saving it to the home-screen, and I get the little icon and the splash/startup screen, but then the phone/ipad says " could not be opened because it is not connected to the internet."
Bob Oct 03 2011
Can this be published on the app store?
Niklas Oct 04 2011
Great tutorial, but has anyone a solution for the offline + start screen problem yet?
Bob Oct 11 2011
I've built a website, i want to know if this can be published as an app without the browser stuff as in the address bar, etc
Jeronimus Oct 18 2011
This is great. I can't wait to try it out.
Chunsheng Oct 19 2011
Great tutorial!
shaji Oct 19 2011
Kaitherine Oct 28 2011
Realy This tutorial specifically for iPhone application development
geoffrey Nov 01 2011
i wish to be useful in a way. is there a way you think you can make me useful and atleast make earn a deserved living. am a jobless kenyan but with an undergraduate degree in computer science
Josef.dalal Nov 04 2011
Hi Alex I like your post, I wonder if it's possible to store an audio file on the db browser with HTML 5? And play it while browsing on the site?
Thanks in advance,
Mark William Nov 09 2011
Started coding with HTML 5 this year…and I ain't ever going back. Nice article explained excellently…
Thank you for sharing.
Josef Nov 09 2011
hello alex, you have a very inspiring article here. Can't wait to try it out at home! Thanks in advantage
Kundan Singh Nov 10 2011
Its an good starting to learn for beginners from your post towards the mobile apps with HTML5 if you post about phone Gap it will be more intresting
Josef E. Nov 21 2011
Now that flash will pass away on mobile devices,
i think i need to start at your code. Looks very helpful.
Jitendra Shah Nov 28 2011
Very interesting article. If anyone wanted to look into this then this is a good place to start!


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My First Oven-Baked Bread for Thanksgiving
This was my first time to use oven to bake bread (before used bread machine). I had been wanting to try the no-knead bread recipe since it came out in 2006.
I followed the original recipe but tuned it to suit my case. Since my order of the digital scale hasn't arrived, I could only use volume to measure the quantities:
- 3 Cup flour (2 AP + 1 WW)
- 1 5/8 tsp salt
- 3/8 tsp active dry yeast (direct into the mix)
- 1 5/8 Cup filtered water
After mixing, it looked pretty sloppy.
Then went back to look at the video and realized that it's 1 1/2C water used in the video. This dough was way too wet. Anyway, I still continued the process. Atfer two hours at room temperature, I put the dough (inside a plastic bag) into the fridge.
Here are a series of photos of the long cold-fermentation process.
With another hour at room temperature (total 58.5 hr), I streched and folded the dough. It's so wet that even with plenty flour it's very difficult to handle the dough.
I let it sit for 15 min and then transferred it onto a kitchen towel with flour & cornmeals. Covered for 2.5 hr for the 2nd rise. The dough did rise quite a lot (but in a flat round shape).
When I tried to put it into the big stainless stew pot (preheated in the oven at 500F), I couldn't let it slide into the pot. The dough was so wet that it sticked to the towel. I tried to use the chopping mat but it still sticked to that. In the end, I had to scrabed the dough down.
I was worried that this might delate the dough quite a lot. But when I removed the cover after 30min, I noticed the bread was all right. So happy that I forgot to lower the oven temperature to 450 until 8 min later. I let it baked at 450 for another 8 min before took the bread out.
It looked not bad right? Initially I shaped it into a round "disk" (it's too soft to be shaped into a ball), but it became oval when I tried very hard to let it slide into the pot. I even slashed the dough but it's all gone during that process.
Look at this caramalized crust!
I brought this bread for the Thanksgiving dinner at my supervisor's house. I had the honor to cut my bread and took the picture.
When I saw the crumb like that, I knew it's going to be good. And indeed, it's very chewy inside! I was very proud of my bread. Well, for a newbie, this was a big success.
The pot I used is the big one below. I removed the knob before baking.
If I didn't have the trouble of sliding this extremely wet dough into the pot, the bread would likely rise higher than the above.
I estimate the hydration in my dough to be around 90%, much higher than Mark Bittman's in his later note (80%). Next time I would definitely lower the water amount. I would like to try no-knead bageutte. 🙂
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Discussion in 'The Trash Can' started by arakwafan2006, Feb 7, 2013.
Thank you Floskate. I was going to clarify this, but you beat me to it.
Very well said. She was considered a 'has been' on this board for quite some time (and some may still be saying that, regardless of what she does on the ice).
Mao always showed the ability to bounce back. Her first worlds - she did not have a good SP, but she skated a great LP and placed second overall. Most skaters would not have gone back to the basics of jumps to fix problems after winning two world titles and an Olympic silver. I hope she wins the OGM in Sochi, but even if she does not, she has earned my respect over many past OGM winners.
She skated last year while grieving for the loss of her mother- the most devastating loss at such a young age. Just the fact she competed makes me respect her (I am not forgetting Joannie Rochette).
This year she has shown marked improvement. This is not the kind of language one uses for a 2x world champion, but that just goes to show how hard she works to improve and never stops trying.
The naysayers will continue to say she can 'only' do a 3A when she lands it, and 'she should give it up and fix her other jumps' when she does not. They will continue to focus on any ur and any edge problem she has in any performance. Actually if you leave out Midori and Tonya, there were not perfect jumpers in the ladies field (Yu na comes very close though).
My hat's also off to Mao for what she has accomplished, and that is regardless of where she places at the worlds and the next Olympics.
I second your post. Actually, even Midori and Tonya weren't entirely perfect jumpers. Midori's jumps were out of this world but her leg wrap took a little away from the aesthetic aspect of her jumps. Tonya's jumps actually looked better when she landed them but she was far from consistent. Yea the quality of her jumps were great but a perfect jumper should also have consistency imo.
Sorry, I was not clear. I was referring to the ur and edge calls that a lot of ladies have started getting under COP. Midori and Tonya did not have those issues, and they would have done just fine in that aspect of their jumps under COP.
she is the best
she is only women who can do triple axel!!
Beats kim who can do only 3lz3t
For Mao to attempt a 3A and succeed is pretty amazing. Since the Vancouver season, she seems to have matured physically: I've noticed that her shoulders are broader and overall she is more womanly. Therefore for her with that wider body to be able to execute 3A is simply breathtaking.
I think she is the sweetheart of the sport. I wish her the best.
I almost dont want to bring this up but I am amazed that for as hard as she has pushed herself that she's remained virtually injury free. As a matter of fact and I am sure that the statistic police will issue a citation if I am incorrect but other than Miki Ando, the Japanese women are pretty good in the injury dept.
Talk about camaraderie.
I too have become a huge fan of hers. She has it all - musicality, dance, the most difficult technique, and she is inspiring in her presentation. I've have always appreciated her, but with this program and her skating this season she has taken it to another level. Not since Michelle left the scene have I enjoyed a program like the ones she delivered at 4CC's - she was just uplifting to watch.
Can I just say that the Japanese are so blessed to have these three amazing women representing them like this. Not even talking about their skating, they're just beautiful women with shining personalities.
I love that she is bringing that artistry she use to display only in exhibitions into her actual competition programs. Prior to this year many of her programs were beautiful (Clare De Lune, Nocturne No. 2 etc) but she only seemed to suit more classical musical as she didn't necessarily need the facial expressions to pull them off.
Long live the queen of loop! She can win any competitions with just 3 triple jumps!
Cup of China: 3Lo, 3S, 3Lo+2Lo
Japan NHK : 2A+3T, 3F, 3Lo+2Lo+2Lo
Grand Prix Final: 3Lo, 3Lo+2Lo+2Lo, 3F+2Lo
4CC: 3Lo, 3F+3Lo<, 3F+2Lo+2Lo
what a lovely thread, arakawafan2006!
I admire her so much for continuing on through all the adversity. I cannot even imagine going through what she went through, and it is so sweet to witness her success this year. My thoughts and prayers are still with her and her family.
I couldn't agree more. And I feel that, as FS fans, we are so lucky to see this level of skating and witness all the special qualities these skaters bring to the ice.
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Adaptation of coming-of-age story had many challenges to overcome, writes Dionne Christian.
Writer Stephen Ballantyne admits he didn't pay much attention when his late father David Ballantyne's novel Sydney Bridge Upside Down was published in 1968: "I read it when it came out, but I was 19 and I had so many other things on my mind I didn't give it the attention I should have."
Neither did the public. The dark coming-of-age tale may have languished on library shelves if not for the admiration of the likes of Canterbury academic Patrick Evans and authors like Frank Sargeson, C.K. Stead and Kate De Goldi. De Goldi wrote a heartfelt introduction when the book was reprinted in 2010.
Now the story is undergoing a further revival. Taki Rua, the national Maori theatre company, has adapted Sydney Bridge Upside Down for the stage, the production coming to Auckland this week after a Wellington season. Stephen Ballantyne reckons it's a fitting tribute, as his father also wrote plays.
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Interested in adapting books for the stage, Taki Rua artistic director James Ashcroft had initially considered Ronald Hugh Morrieson, the much-filmed writer of Kiwi Gothic. But a friend introduced him to Sydney Bridge Upside Down.
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'I was instantly caught up by it and could not believe I had never heard of the book or its author," says Ashcroft, who says he's now read it 33 times. "On the surface, the writing seems to have much in common with Morrieson but delve below the surface and it's very, very different."
He says adapting the story had its challenges - the poetic lilt to the writing, a cinematic quality to its setting, and how it combines elements of the surreal with the lives of its various characters. Readers know their names but not their backgrounds; where they live, but not when they're living.
Ashcroft commissioned writers to produce a conventional script, but felt that did not serve the story. So he gathered a design team (set designer Kasia Pol, composer John Gibson, lighting designer Nathan McKendry, audio-visual and multimedia designer Robert Appierdo) and cast, including Claire Van Beek, Maaka Pohatu, Holly Shanahan, Tim Carlsen, Rob Mokaraka, James Tito and Aaron Cortesi.
They read the book and talked about their adolescent experiences, of how childhood morphs into adulthood and how the themes shot through Sydney Bridge Upside Down could be brought into theatre while staying true to the novel's characters and setting: Calliope Bay, a place on the edge of the world.
"David's words are the anchor - the reference point we bounce off and come back to," says Ashcroft. "We want to engage audiences in a conversation about how theatre affects them and this story provides a launchpad for that."
Playing Harry, Carlsen says he sees the character as an anti-hero who, in turn, sees himself as a protector serving justice. Rather than portray Harry as a child, he welcomed the chance to find the spirit of the character and portray him accordingly. He's enjoyed the way words are integrated with an evocative score and audio-visual (AV) aspects which help to capture the book's cinematic qualities.
"The more internal aspects of Harry are supported very well by the style and design of the show. AV is a huge component which allows us to find the various facets of Harry's mind. We refer to the AV operator as the eighth performer because there's something like 700 tech cues."
Some might question the choice of a non-Maori story for a Maori theatre company. But Ashcroft says the story is relevant no matter what the background of the characters and audiences and that Taki Rua aims to break rules and challenge perceptions.
"I knew this choice of work would open this debate up and that's what we should be doing. We should be asking questions about what constitutes 'Maori theatre'."
What: Sydney Bridge Upside Down, adapted for the stage by Taki Rua
Where and when: Q Theatre, Wednesday to Sunday.
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Fifteen years after the Kings left for Sacramento, Kansas City decided to build a new arena and a new downtown. Former Kansas City Mayor, Kay Barnes, was in Sacramento to speak at a Think Big event. She says Kansas City's project concentrated on giving visitors and locals options within an energetic new development.
BARNES: "Not everybody is interested in basketball. Not everyone is interested in the arts. And yet, when you have multiple venues that are within proximity to each other, then you obviously get the multiples that you would not get otherwise."
Barnes urged Sacramento to be unafraid of a big vision and to be patient through the process. Kansas City's Sprint Arena was funded by arena operator AEG, a room and hotel tax, and ticket fees. Pollstar Magazine says it was the third busiest arena in the country last year.


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As Stormynature said, once you establish the fundamental building blocks of the quests and realize how few there are, then you hand it over to the creative people who hide the limitations through artistic innovation in storywriting. Artists tend to rise to the occasion when faced with limitations.
but unless you get into generating components of the back story, you're limited to like one screen of mission orders worth of the SAME copy (or boilerplate) for ALL quests of a given type.
or you get the madlibs effect: Journey to the (location), there you will find the lair of the (monster). Use the (special item/power) to defeat the (short name of monster). Do this, and I, (name of questor), shall bestow upon you (reward).
location: Isles of Shanarsa
monster: Ancient Kolug-bouk Troll of the Dwarven mines
short name: Ancient Troll
special item/power: Mirror of Medusa
name of questor: Kalgar, Overlord of Valentia
reward: a fiefdom in the fertile fields of the Western Marches
once you plug in the madlibs it doesn't sound so bad:
"Journey to the Isles of Shanarsa. There you will find the lair of the Ancient Kolug-bouk Troll of the Dwarven mines. Use the Mirror of Medusa to defeat the Ancient Troll. Do this, and I, Kalgar, Overlord of Valentia, shall bestow upon you a fiefdom in the fertile fields of the Western Marches."
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Is Apple Going to Ship the iPhone mini?
|Poll: Is Apple Going to Ship the iPhone mini?
Total Votes: 17
|No way. Its just a rumor, and isnt being built.
|Apple probably has one in its labs, but it wont ever ship.
|The iPhone mini is on the way!
Jeff Gamet
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Rumors that Apple is planning on shipping a second and smaller iPhone model—the iPhone mini, or the iPhone nano—are flying around the Internet yet again. Do you think Apple really is working on the fabled iPhone mini, and will it actually ship?
It just seems to be the most practical route for Apple to take, following the line of the iPod. An iPhone for enough price points which meets the needs of the most people possible would more likely secure Apple presence and dominance in the mobile communications world. The iPhone, the iPad and an iPad air would be a killer platform set. Integration is Apple's wild card all other developers envy. I suspect Apple has a plan that with tweaks and ideas yet aired will keep us all amazed.
Know History; not just your Folklore! At least until I find time to rewrite the laws of physics.
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I think an iPhone mini would be pointless unless it came without a mandatory data plan. If it had the same dataplan as the big iPhone you'd still be paying a ton of money each month for something less capable. Make it pay-as-you-go or WiFi only (iPod Touch that makes calls) and then you've got something. The cell carriers drive to make us all think we need smart phones so they can charge us 300% more per month than a dumb phone is sickening.
Less is More (more or less).
I would buy a Mini on the spot, especially if it didn't have a built-in data plan and but especially because it would look frak'n awesome!
Tron is cool
Paul Goodwin
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An iPhone mini would be a perfect mate for an iPad. Also, I would like a smaller phone to cart around with me on short trips out of the house when I know I won't be dawdling around on the phone. Minimal web-based search and locator functions would be all I'd need beside the telephone part
David Nelson
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I wouldn't be surprised if Apple has toyed with the idea but I doubt it's going to appear as a real product. I really don't think size or weight is an issue with the iPhone so there would be very little benefit to making it smaller. On the flip side a smaller screen would make typing nearly impossible and might require developers to create yet another graphic mode for their apps, tailored to be usable on a smaller screen, much like they had to create an alternate interface to scale better to the iPad screen.
The area where Apple needs (or needed!) to make progress is price, and they have done that by continuing to offer the iPhone 3GS for only $49. At that price point anyone can afford the cost of entry. The real cost is the monthly service, which brings up the next point…
As others have said, I could see an appeal to offering a version that has a data-only plan without contract, just like the iPad offers. However I don't think this would be marketed as an iPhone mini/nano/lite, but rather as iPod touch with 3G. It would probably cost an extra $50-$100 over the standard model.[ Edited: 23 February 2011 03:12 PM by David Nelson ]
If Apple does go for an iPhone mini, it'll only be because people want an iPhone that's physically smaller, not because of the price.
When I bought my wife an iPhone, it didn't cost anything. It was 2009's previous model, the 8GB 3G, normally $50. Got a refurb'd one for free. So if you want an iPhone and don't want to pay anything (except for the contract of course!), you can do so already.
Bonus with two phones, I can get a new one every year. So in 2010, I got an iPhone 4 and gave her my 3GS. This year her contract will be up, so we can buy the iPhone 5 on hers, and she'll get my iPhone 4.


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127 Hours Reviews
127 Hours offers a daunting challenge to a filmmaker: How do you rivet an audience when your protagonist can't even move? The answer is that there's an awesome freedom to Danny Boyle's filmmaking.
To say that this movie gets under your skin is only barely a figure of speech. It pins you down, shakes you up and leaves you glad to be alive.
How do you make a movie about immobility? For a hyperactive stylist like Boyle, whose movies are at best thrillingly kinetic and at worst represent death by a thousand cuts, the solution turns out to be absurdly simple. He heads inward.
As Franco goes from fearful to resigned to resentful of the spot he's in, we're absolutely hooked.
Mr. Franco is simply terrific, and Mr. Boyle's trademark exuberance creates a dizzying succession of images that get the movie not only out of the canyon but into its hero's mind.
The latest from Danny Boyle is actually an ode to survival, a bracing story of man and nature and an exhilarating sensory experience. It's my favorite movie so far this year.
In his impressive follow-up to Slumdog Millionaire, the Academy Award-winning director honors the lure of solitude while at the same time celebrating the beautiful necessity of other people.
127 Hours may be occasionally overdirected, but it's never under-felt... and more importantly, Franco's work goes a long way toward making Ralston's story live.
From such harrowing beginnings, it's rather awesome what an entertaining film Danny Boyle has made with "127 Hours."
Aside from an exhilarating opening and a gruesome climax, the movie isn't all that rich emotionally; all the visual razzle-dazzle winds up serving a pat lesson about people needing other people.
The nightmare becomes a tribute to Ralston's bravery -- without casting him as a hero. He just got tired of waiting to die and decided to live.
Directed and co-written by Danny Boyle in a style that travels from ecstatic to nerve-wracking and back, this is a film about perseverance, strength and the importance of always letting people know where you're going.
It's an incredible performance by Franco, walking the line between what once was enthusiasm but now is manic desperation.
Fraught with tension, yet never claustrophobic, 127 Hours is a phenomenal piece of work in which a fine actor and an innovatively cinematic director join forces to keep you gasping for oxygen all the way.
[Franco's] take on Ralston feels both credible and compelling; few actors could have made us care so much, or disappeared so completely into the role.
Like all great movies, "127 Hours" takes us on a memorable journey. Which is not easy when 90 percent of the movie takes place with a virtually immobile hero in a very cramped setting.
Sleek and stylish, harrowing yet heartening, Danny Boyle and James Franco bring their best picture to the big screen.


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iAnimate interviews feature film animator and instructor Jason Anastas. His animation career started at Walt Disney Animations Studios where he was a Lead Animator of "Gaston" on "Meet The Robinsons" and Sr. Animator on both "Bolt" and "Tangled". He then went to work for Dreamworks Animation on such films as "Kung Fu Panda 2", "Puss And Boots", "Rise Of The Guardians", "The Croods" and "Peabody And Sherman".
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MEN'S BASKETBALL: Lakes State Bank advances to championship
Lakes State Bank defeated Pecarich Marketing 48-45 Wednesday to advance to the championship game in the YMCA men's league playoffs.
Eric Sullivan and Luke Schramm scored 14 points and Jessie Sullivan 12 to lead Lakes State Bank. Todd Vanek scored 12 and Joel Clough 11 to lead Pecarich Marketing.
Lakes State Bank advances to the championship game at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 29.
In the losers' bracket, Shep's eliminated Garrett 88-45 as Aaron Otteson hit eight 3-pointers and finished with 33 points. Travis Dixon added 17 for Shep's. Garrett received 12 from Charles Tetrault and 10 from Antonio Riley 10.
Ameriprise eliminated The Pines 75-61 as Seth Sazma scored 16 and Kendall Brown 15. The Pines' Jack Wawro scored 26 and Bobby Gaulke 13.
Shep's eliminated Ameriprise 63-62 with Joe Hoelscher scoring 22 and Dixon 14. For Ameriprise, Brown scored 16 and Luke Schumer 11.
6 p.m., Monday, Feb. 27: Pecarich Marketing vs Shep's (loser eliminated)
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Last week the annual Enterprise 2.0 Conference was once again held in my home town, Boston. Of course I attended. How could I not; hot topic, personal and professional interest, and the show was within walking distance from Information Architected headquarters.
Like thousands of my colleagues, I came, I saw, I commented.
So, why has it taken me so long to blog about it? Well, in addition to the usual – "I have been busy" excuses (truthful as they are), I also am learning how to balance microblogging and blogging. My more prolific than usual use of Twitter while at the conference kept the burning need to post an entire blog entry at bay. I am beginning to learn the complementary nature between Twitter and blogging. But more on that later.
Let me start by stating that some excellent commentary and insights have already been posted via Twitter. If you missed them you can retrieve them via the tag #e2conf. Additionally, there have been some very insightful blog posts form friends and colleagues such as Larry Hawes, Doug Cornelius, Oliver Marks , Stowe Boyd, Ron Miller and Bill Ives.
So the purpose of this post is not to rehash the comments I made in Twitter, or to restate (most) of what has already been documented in the blogs I listed above. Here, I share a very high level summation of the event. I have pondered in retrospect what it all came down to, for me and can summarize it in an acronym – CTI.
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text: I just purchased a 'new' 2008 2500HD LTZ, Z71 4x4, w/6.6L Diesel. I did say 'new,' it was a hold-over from last year, never demo'd or titled - 23 miles original...probably from test drives. I bought it 5 days ago. My state has a NO buyers remorse return policy, you bought it - it's yours! I never bothered to 'inspect' the undercarriage and drive train, it's NEW right? Well, all the shafts, mounts, sway bars, steering linkage, tie rods, brake calipers/backing plates, bushing mounts, and much more are solid RUST! Even along the frame and where there are galvanized parts, etc., they are rusty!? GM Customer Satisfaction seems to agree that that truck SHOULD NOT have that corrosion! The dealer, the service manager, and the salesman say it's "normal." The view under my truck looks like a combination of a NEW p-up and a '68 p-up pulled out of a bayou! BTW, I am a Florida boy, the truck was purchased in NW Florida -- I hate to see how it will deteriorate if it ever sees northern roads in the winter... Comments PLEASE! Thanks!!


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Montbell Down Jacket for sale. Size medium and its blue. Very good condition. Taken great care of. No holes or tears or rips. I'll throw in a free bottle of down cleaner with the jacket. 120 obo. Save a few bucks and get a lightweight and warm down jacket.
Thanks! PM me. Paypal please.
Do you have the weight in oz.? I'm wishing.
It says 8.0 oz on the site, but my scale says 7.9.
PM sent. Reply here or I'll have to check PM's after work at home. Thank you for your time.
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I'm on my last break. I'll check back in after 3 PST. I'll take it if my offer is accepted.
Thank you Kyle. Where do I email the funds or was that in an earlier post? Thanks a lot for spending my good stove collecting money. :)
Sold to duane! I'll ship it first thing in the morning.
P.S. Is that a sentence typo there Duane?
Joking with you. I collect old bping and some camping stoves.
Stoves are your thing. I seem to find myself collecting different kitchen/inside tent accessories.
Enjoy the jacket. Tell me how it fits.
Edit: I'd like to see some pictures of your collections.. that would be incredible.
Kyle, I hang out some on Classic Camp Stoves. I've posted a few car camp trips recently in the Action Gallery. A few of my old stoves, camping ones in this case there. I have most of the old MSR stoves, like the first, a model 9, then MF, G, GK. My 9 is my avatar here. Looking forward to the jacket.
Man, that's quite the collection. I sent the jacket today so you should see it on your doorstep Saturday afternoon.
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[quote user="MattMeyerBud"][quote user="dezzzR"][quote user="MattMeyerBud"][quote user="Kase-1"][quote user="bigblue4417"]"Today we learned that anything is possible when we put our minds to it as a team," Giants safety Antrel Rolle
said. "We're going to keep fighting. We're going to fight to get into
the playoffs. And once we get into the playoffs, there's not going to be
anything that stops us there."
"We have four games to go and three of
them in our division," Giants coach Tom Coughlin said. "I think this
game brings us together even tighter than we've ever been before as a
team. Guys laid it on the line for each other tonight."
"We've got to try and take something from this game," said quarterback Eli Manning,
who added 347 passing yards and three touchdowns to his gaudy season
numbers. "We have four big games left and we have to take whatever we
can from this game, clean up a few things and play good football if
we're going to run this thing down."
"We know we have to play them twice," Manning said. "And we we know that
if we handle our business and play the way we can and win out, then
we'll be in the playoffs."
"Seeing the way we came out and played against an undefeated team like we did today, I think that gives us momentum going forward," Giants running back Brandon Jacobs said. "It's only about the future, and we have a lot of work to do this week to get ready for Dallas."
[/quote]We're gonna need Aaron Ross to either sit on the bench or step it up and realize he's playing for a contract. We need Will Blackmon to take a seat and let Prince get more snaps
Aaron Ross to Safety???
na cuz PRince isn't healty or really ready...
Sash and Grant will have to step up
**** man, thats why Jordy Nelson was so wide open - PRince's foot was really sore and had to come out
[/quote]sooo many little things in this game, one goes our way and we win, raaaghghhasdfgioahfdgjklafg
oh **** I almost totally forgot about this
on that second driver TD that got reviewed... didn't he step out of the back of the endzone and be the first person to touch the ball?
And since when is a player allowed to go in the endzone and go back to the field of play to catch a ball on a punt
[/quote]And when can you not have total control of the ball while stepping out of the end zone, lose it in the process and still be given a TD???
Sounds like the refs dont mind the packers going undefeated this year


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Norwegian Cruise Line made its maiden voyage to Havana in May, kicking off the first of 30 Cuba cruises offered this year on the Norwegian Sky.
The 2,004-passenger vessel is the largest of a handful of cruise ships sailing from the U.S. to Cuba.
Starting in March, Norwegian Sky plans to make 33 additional trips in 2018 to the island nation, with 32 of those including an overnight stay in the Cuban capital.
Prices start at $629 per person for an inside cabin, making the weekly sailings a relatively affordable and easy way to experience Havana.
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I am trying to figure out if I should add a shopping cart to my page. I have weighted out the benefits and draw backs:
capture impulse buying
offering another way to buy products
Easier (could be) for customers to buy
merchant fees (takes away from profit margin)
Not getting to know customers. (right now, they have to contact me to order so I feel like I can give them better customer service that way and get to know them)
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Sedo Great Domains Auction Results
Sedo's June Great Domains auction ended yesterday, and it resulted in the sale of 36 domain names. The largest sale was Expecting.com at $49,999, and that was followed by Wardrobes.com at $20,600.
The full list of sales is below, although you should keep in mind that they may not have all been paid by the buyers yet. If you had an interest in a name that didn't sell or meet reserve, you should get in contact with Sedo to try and work out a deal, since it's likely the name is under contract with the company.
June Great Domain auction results:
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wardrobes.com 20600 USD
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Note: Each issue of Dimensions features a contribution from one of the Alzheimer's groups in Washington. This article is reprinted with permission from the Alzheimer's Association Eastern Washington Chapter.
Jerry Ham is a caregiver for his mother, Joan. He first started writing poetry as a way to express his feelings of grief, confusion, frustration, and pain from his mother's battle with Alzheimer's disease. Since that time, Jerry has touched the hearts of many people around the world with his poetry. A booklet of Jerry's poetry is available by contacting the Inland Northwest Alzheimer's Association at 800-256-6659.
There's a stranger in our house,
But she's one I used to know.
She loved me, fed me, clothed me,
And did her best to help me grow.
Her love was always there,
As I traveled though this life.
She beamed through tears of pride,
As she watched me take a wife.
Oh this one who's now a stranger,
At one time gave hugs and cheer.
And she was always ready,
To help dry a grandchild's tear.
But the years have long since passed,
And her memory's slipped away.
And now she talks unending,
To unseen people all the day.
This dear person is my mother,
I'll not whine, nor will I grouse.
For now it is my privilege,
to love this stranger in our house.
©1997, Jerry Ham
You give of your heart, your love, and your life,
To a grandparent, parent, a husband, a wife.
You dress and you feed them, you clean up the mess.
For months, maybe years, you give of your best.
At times you can laugh, more often it's tears,
As you watch them decline year after year.
So often you feel like there's nobody there,
No one to talk to, there's no one who cares.
Then late at night, you'll sit and just cry,
"It all seems so hopeless, so why do I try?"
And then comes a voice, so soft and so clear,
You look all around you, but no one is near.
Again comes the voice, soft as can be,
"You know why you try, just look and you'll see.
"You do it for love, you know that is true.
This love that you have, will help see you through.
"You're not alone, there's someone who'll share.
The burden you carry, I'll help you bear."
Then in the darkness, there's a warmth you can feel,
A soft gentle presence, you know it is real.
As you drop off to sleep, the angels above,
Echo the words...."You do it for love."
©1997, Jerry Ham
She was bright, and smart, and so full of life.
She loved her role as mother and wife.
Two girls, three boys, five children she reared,
She taught them to laugh, to love and to care.
She showed them that love was not to be earned,
But given freely even when they got burned.
They told themselves that she'd always be there.
Their joys, their triumphs, and sorrows to share.
But then a stranger showed up one day,
Unbeknownst to them, it decided to stay.
It made no announcements to let them know,
That it would bring them sorrow and woe.
But just as sure as day becomes night,
This unseen enemy began its dread fight.
A bill or two she would forget to pay,
And coming back home she'd lose her way.
Then words said earlier, she would say again,
She could not remember the name of old friends.
This unseen enemy continues to rage.
And each new day is an unwelcome page.
And now she chatters the whole day long,
She has no idea that there's anything wrong.
This unseen enemy has done its work well.
It's destroyed her memory and left just a shell.
Thus my prayer is: "Lord, someday please,
"Help us find the cure to Alzheimer's Disease."
©1998, Jerry Ham
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Numinous and Concrete
Service Is Power
In my last entry, I stated that service was another theme for me during this year's Pantheacon. At an event such as this, service is all around, of course, from the first moment you walk toward registration and see gorgeously dressed and bedazzling volunteers of all genders smiling from behind the long tables, ready to help. Major events are filled with volunteers: from programming, to safety, to tech, to operations, to folks just pitching in for a few hours to help keep things running. These are often the very ones that bear the brunt of displeasure when something goes awry, and who need to be reminded to eat lunch when the crush is on.
Why do we do service? We do service because it matters, and because we like it.
Years ago, when I worked full time at the soup kitchen I volunteer at now, living communally and receiving room and board for my time, a guest asked why I was there one day, when we were sharing a patch of container garden together before lunch began. I replied: "I'm here because I like it." He was taken aback, and even slightly offended in his response, which was, "You should be here because you want to help the poor!" Well, that was also true, of course. Social injustice must always have forces such as you and me to counterbalance its corrosion. But if I did not get satisfaction out of scrubbing potatoes, washing dishes, cleaning bathrooms, and talking with the working poor, the schizophrenic, the drug addled, and the down on their luck, I would not have spent four years with that as my primary occupation. Service? Yes. Servitude? No.
I thought of this as Peter Dybing and I spent a bit of time talking one afternoon. Peter is current First Officer of the Covenant of the Goddess, went to Haiti immediately after the quake, and the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater oil disaster. We talked about service without approaching the subject directly. We talked about all the projects COG and Solar Cross were engaged in and the projects that we want still to happen. There is one he is currently planning—to match up younger Pagans with Pagan Elders in order to record some of their history before it is lost. I chimed in that it would be great to ask them for stories and insights that would be of particular help to our communities in future, and make these available in themed volumes. By the time our conversation was through, we had a sketchy plan for Solar Cross and COG to work together on this project. I sent out emails to some of my students today, hoping to find people willing to spearhead some segments of this, for you see, all of my long-term students have a commitment to doing service every month as part of their curriculum.
Why? Karma Yoga—the discipline of action—keeps us strong. Service keeps us in connection with something outside our own psyche. It also helps to keep us clear in our dealings with others. There is nothing like cleaning an industrial oven after organizing a big event to help with perspective. It is part of why I still show up every week to scrub pots at the house of hospitality. I have a need, not only ideologically to help those whom society has allowed to fall through the cracks, but a need to not get too far from poverty myself. As much of a struggle as poverty is, middle class brings its own sort of death if we are not careful. As a woman with strong working class roots, I am ever aware of this. I travel the world and teach. People look to me all the time. To balance this, not only do I need to remain a student, and I do, I also need to do basic human labor in service of people upon whom most look with distaste. Otherwise, something in my spirit weakens. There are things about myself I simply would not be given the opportunity to see.
T. Thorn Coyle is an internationally respected visionary and teacher of the magical and esoteric arts. The author of Make Magic of Your Life, Kissing the Limitless, and Evolutionary Witchcraft, she hosts the Elemental Castings podcast series, writes the blog Know Thyself, and has produced several CDs of sacred music. Follow her on Twitter and Facebook!
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Boyleing Points
So The Wave got chided for not a single mention of Father's Day. I'm not sure if it was true, — ya know, I don't read The Wave — but I assume it's true. I mean, forgetting dad —- that's its own tradition. The day is like a fake holiday that barely gets any respect. We try to protest just a little and we hear, every day is father's day. Yeah, and every dad is Rodney Dangerfield. We get no respect, I tell ya. At best, some of us get treated like a big dog or mascot. Oh yeah, big guy, happy father's day. Man, your bald spot is really growing.
You might give the kids a look, like, really? On father's day you gotta say that? They might say they were only kidding and then add, look at the bright side, the bigger the bald spot, the less gray hair you have.
One dad I know had to wonder if he was related to the comedian who said, Whoa, Dad, with that belly I thought this was mother's day and you were eight months pregnant.
Yeah, that was kinda mean and for a moment, the rumor was, some others in the family almost felt sorry for dear old dad. There was an awkward silence followed by – dad, what time is the barbecue today? (You know, the barbecue that you will be working to serve us).
Ah, kids.
Hey, dad, I need money. What for? I gotta buy you a father's day gift. But I don't want anything. Then they look at you, like, are you kidding? Just give me the money. It's the look a mugger gives you: You're gonna make me beat you up? Just give me the money. (Not that they'll actually spend the money on a gift).
Of course, most fathers I know don't want anything. Or they have one simple hope. They don't want a new tie or silly golf accessory. They've got just one goal for the day: they don't want to be bothered. And it's about noon before they realize they had a better chance of asking for a million dollars.
Dad, could I have a ride? It's father's day. Oh, happy father's day. And then they give the look: so, can I have a ride? It's father's day. Then it's your turn to give a look: I'm not gonna be a damn chauffeur for father's day. Then they give another look and half a grunt: you're really milking this.
The kid storms off. Ah victory. You got to light up the cigar – that you bought for yourself for father's day – and then you hear the whining, bellowing in a voice that is used only to travel through multiple rooms: "Mom! Ma! Ma! I need a ride!"
Momentary silence. "Ask your father."
Boyleing Points: I don't know if I have to use smaller words or bigger print but I heard recently that some people read Boyleing Points out loud to others. Brianne Carroll reads it to her mother, Eileen. Doreen Mingino (Happy Birthday, Dor!) reads it to her daughter, Alison (Doreen skips the parts where I curse and make offcolor remarks). Any others of you do this? Please don't tell me. I'm just kinda creeped out right now.
**Ok, I had a couple of ice cold beers at RBIs on Beach 90th and RBB. That's right, that's right. I can hang downtown. It so happens, the bartender couldn't have been friendlier and my overall review is: I'll be back. And once those hipsters getting off the train lift their fedoras, RBIs is gonna be a new hot spot. In the meantime, the two hotspots that demand a beer stop are Sayra's and the Playland Motel on the Boulevard in the 90's. Sayra's is not just a wine bar – they've got a beer garden. Playland has a number of legendary bartenders, including Oakie and Turk, so after I sweat out this column I'm heading there.
**And next year, I'm 99.8 percent sure I'll be drinking from the rooftop of the Sand Bar. The Good Rumor man says new ownership is coming in, signaling another good turnabout for 116th Street.