Photo: David Katz/Obama for America

As a long time Mac partisan, I’m amused by this photo from election night in Chicago.

The free Remote.app from Apple is nice, but I can’t convince my coworkers to let me run their iTunes remotely.

And now I have a visual explanation of what the iPhone Viewport Meta plugin does.

I found that you may need to add a thin border, via CSS, for contrast against a white background.

Best wishes to my friends at Apple working on the Mobile Me launch tonight!

At Linden Lab we use an internal wiki, and I wanted to subscribe to the recent changes feed in Mail.app. The wiki uses HTTP authentication. When I tried updating the feed after I added it, instead of asking for my credentials, Mail threw an error dialog reporting that the feed was password protected, but didn’t ask for the credentials.

Click on the poorly named ‘RSS’ button in the address bar and get a list of all the feeds available at the current URL.

Torley, we need to talk about upgrading you to WordPress 2.3.

• Now uses device-width constant instead of a value in pixels.
• Test for both iphone and ipod in user agent string.
• Switch from semi-colon to comma as separator, per ADC documentation.

James Craig has been great with pointing out bugs and changes to the viewport format, so I’m now listing him as a co-author. Thanks, James.

And yes, I know I’m contributing to the proliferation of cat photos on the Web.

One more thing: the Gallery provides feeds in Atom.

8 August 2007 ETA: Charles launched the official SproutCore site this evening. And woah, a link from Daring Fireball can spike one’s traffic, and hopefully create a bunch of users and contributors for the framework.

Update 4: Plugin now hosted at wordpress.org.

Update 3: New version with support for viewport constants, and iPod Touch.

Update 2: James Craig points out that the ID attribute is not allowed in the META element, so I’ve updated the plugin.

Update: I should add what my aim is. Rather than creating a separate template for mobile, I want to have a theme that ‘does the right thing’ for iPhone and desktop browsers.

Some documentation:

1. Plugin tests user agent string.
   • If it contains ‘iPhone’ then it adds <meta content="width=480; maximum-scale=0.6667" name="viewport"/> to the document’s head.
   • It also adds iPhone specific CSS rules. For that reason, you should call wp_head() in your theme file after you declare your default CSS files.
   • These rules were written with Sandbox in mind. You will want to edit the CSS rules to suit your theme.
   • You can force the viewport and CSS rules by adding forceiphone=y to the query string portion of a URL.
2. Adds a boolean function: weh_is_iPhone().
   • Returns true if user agent string contains ‘iPhone’.
   • You can call this function from your theme to add or turn off generation of markup.
   • Most likely you’ll use it to turn off generation of sidebars.