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Software => HFS ~ HTTP File Server => HTML & templates => Topic started by: Eli on October 14, 2009, 04:45:52 PM
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Hello everyone, I love HFS and I love some of the customized templates posted on this board, however I wonder if if there are any templates or plugins for Mobile devices, some type of code that could be inserted into the main template to re-direct visitors to a mobile version of the template or a special mobile device friendly page.
I love this software, Keep up the good work!
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i saw an "iphone" template on this forum, once, and yes, it's possible for templates to act differently for mobile devices.
it's up to the author.
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Here is the famous template about which rejetto speak
Good courage to adapt it to your needs ;)
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Here is the famous template about which rejetto speak
Good courage to adapt it to your needs ;)
Thanks, I really appreciate that, now how do I create a re-directing script in the main template so people on phones are sent to that template when they visit? anyone has any ideas? also when I enabled the template just to see how it looked it is missing the graphics that should go along with it, do you know where I can find those?
thanks in advance
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eh... at the moment i can't think of a way to just use a different template.
i fear they should be blended together, and it will take some knowledge and time. i have the first, but not the latter, sorry. :)
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Live 3.0.0 works ok on portable devices, I tested it on iPhone and PSP. From memory it will get down to about 320px without too much trouble... It also looks nice as a PC browser template.
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Been playing around with the iphone template, but I have a newbie question.
How do I get Safari to download the files to the iphone via the browser links?
Or is this just for streaming?
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Live 3.0.0 works ok on portable devices, I tested it on iPhone and PSP. From memory it will get down to about 320px without too much trouble... It also looks nice as a PC browser template.
Yeah I have tried that one, and it looks nice, however it lacks some visual effects that I love in the RAWR template.
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How do I get Safari to download the files to the iphone via the browser links?
Or is this just for streaming?
if you don't find your answer here (being it related solely to the iphone) you may have better luck with google
http://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+download+files+iphone+safari
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This forum was my last resort. I've been search the net for weeks. I was under the impression that the safari plugin is for JB ipods. Cannot find any apps or plugins for a non-JB ipod.
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if you think there's no feasible solution, my suggestion is to write/contact apple as unsatisfied user, reporting the missing feature,
maybe telling that you, as a buyer, take this feature in high consideration ;)
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Why are you dissing a loyal HFS user who wants to extend his HFS use to an ipod touch?
Considering there are 37 million iphones/ipodtouches on the market, one would think making HFS useful to this market would have great benefits to rejetto. Especially if only 1% of those new users donate. You could even charge $2 for an app that accesses HFS and most of us would pay for it.
There are already a few PC-side access apps on the market, but none that allow iphone-side access to a PCs server.
Do you really think Apple is going to address this when the burden obviously falls on the file server developer.
Your flippant response was very misplaced.
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my english is not perfect, and my reply may result unfair for my lack of skill (i'm italian and i live in italy). but i'm very interested in improving, knowing how.
i tried to read it twice more, and the only way i can imagine for your disappointment, is that you thought i don't want to give you a solution or work on it.
i'll try to be clearer to avoid confusion: if apple by design decided to not put a feature, it may be actually impossible to workaround it. If it is, i don't know, i just figured something from your message and from google, but i have no iphone.
There's a thing for sure: such thing would not just be related to HFS, but to any website you would like to download from, exactly the same problem, so millions people would be facing it, and if they did not find a solution i won't be smarter than them.
About developing a software for the iphone to supply to the feature, having no iphone myself, it's not an option for me.
let me know if this changes your POV.
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I'm not questioning your support at all. Just expressing the frustration that solutions exist but it seems that no one (including other posters here) wants to address it.
If people are using iphone templates with HFS then there must be a way to download files to the iphone via Safari. Otherwise they would just install one of 100s of server apps that turns the iphone into a file server. I'd rather use HFS on the PC side then use an app on the iphone side.
The advantage is access to my PC files without sitting next to the PC.
Here is an example of an iphone side app:
http://www.apptism.com/apps/discover
It seems a very simple task to pair one of these iphone server apps with HFS without having to do any programming. I'll keep looking for an open source file server that will blend well with HFS and post here.
My apologies for venting my frustrations.
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Dear Sir Felix:
You wrote:...have a newbie question.
How do I get Safari to download the files to the iphone via the browser links?(1)
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I've been search the net for weeks(2). I was under the impression that the safari plugin is for JB ipods. Cannot find any apps or plugins for a non-JB ipod.(3)
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There are already a few PC-side access apps on the market, but none that allow iphone-side access to a PCs server.(4)
Do you really think Apple is going to address this when the burden obviously falls on the file server developer.(5)
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It seems a very simple task to pair one of these iphone server apps with HFS without having to do any programming.(6)
1. In your first post you pointed correctly the problem: Safari on i-things does not allow to download files from a web server.
2. Searching for weeks (!!!) you didn't find any solution to download files with safari without a plugin that requires JB (3).
Spending weeks on searching, you should also have learned something more: Apples Safari for i-things does not allow any download. And this is not because apple does not know how to do it, it's because they do not want that anything is downloaded from the web to their i-things. This is also one of the main reasons that there is no other browser like mozilla-firefox or opera available for i-things.
As a 'loyal HFS user' you should know what hfs means: hfs = 'http file server. http is the protocol used to transfer hipertext and files on the net between webservers and browsers. So, hfs works as what it is: a web server like any other web server that serves pages and files. And the browser is not part of hfs.
4. You repeat here that there is no app (=web-browser) for i-things that allow download of files.
After all this, i can (and i suppose nobody) not understand, why you write (5) that the problem is not at apple, but the developper's of the web file server!
And at last, your frustration with apple leads you to be totally confused: No matter if and how you can use an i-thing as a server, the problem for downloading from the web to an i-thing remains still the same: the browser.
Pairing an iphone server (!!!) app with hfs 'without having to do any programming' will not produce a client!
There are only two options for i-thing users:
a) Do and use what apple allows - then you will never download from the web if apple does not change his policy and will allow it (then perhaps you would also be able to use firefox and/or opera). And the only force that can help to change this policy are apple i-thing users that complain about the missing feature.
b) Do what - as it seems - many i-thing users do: JB and use plugins. Looking at the number of related sites when searching, ¿do you think that those 'bad hackers' would JB and write plugins if it would be a 'very simple task' to download from servers 'without having to do any programming'?
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Thanks Bacter. At least I now got the straight information. When the websearches mixes JB options with non-JB options it becomes confusing what i-things can and cannot do. Your post is the first I have seen that does confirm Safari's lack of feature, at least that I have seen.
Keep in mind that this Ipod Touch is my first Apple product. I'm not a fan boy and probably never will be.
Since quite a few apps currently allow for both pc and iphone side servers and downloading to the i-things over the web(or network), logic seems to say that if other companies can provide for these apps on a non-JB i-thing, then all we need is for an app developer to write one that would works with HFS. I noticed some talk about FTP support at one point. Maybe an option.
The main frustration for me was not knowing. Thats why I posted.
Thanks for your help.
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fyi for felix or any other cats out there haha sorry i couldnt resist
on a jailbroken iphone/ipod touch use safari download manager (it works beautifully) and also use ifile to browse your phones entire file system