February 11, 2010

Callaway uPro course mapping

I sent a request to have Otter Creek mapped for my Callaway uPro on the day I got it (Christmas).

I finally received an acknowledgement that they don't have imagery for the course:
We have completed our review of our imagery database for your requested course(s): 
>>Otter Creek GC
Unfortunately at this time we do not have imagery to map COURSE NAME. We have made a request to our imagery vendors to obtain imagery. The time frame to obtain imagery varies, it may be a few days or it may be a few weeks. Once we have obtained the imagery we will map the course as quickly as we can. 
There are numerous processes and quality checks to map a course. Once we have finished mapping your request courses and it is available for download on our website we will notify you via e-mail. (only to be included if we are mapping a course) 
It has been difficult having this fancy thing just sitting on my desk at home, unable to go out and play with it.  I've got another couple long months left yet before I can actually use the device anywhere around here.

October 1, 2009

Mobile Safari keyboard types

On iPhone OS 1.x, you could control the displayed keyboard type by naming input controls with "zip" in the name or "phone" in the name to get the special keyboard for entering a number or phone number, respectively.

A while ago (iPhone OS 2.x?), this functionality was removed. It never really should have been there in the first place, so this is good. You shouldn't name an input box that doesn't deal with a zip code with "zip" just to get the keyboard you want.

Recently, I believe with iPhone OS 3.0 (or possibly a later release of 2.x?), Safari includes some HTML5 goodness that brings this functionality back. Here's the full list of HTML5 input type attribute values. The new values that Mobile Safari support include email, number, search, tel, and url.

Here's what the different keyboards look like:



Also, if you are looking for a little more control of the keyboard, Safari has the following attributes to let you configure some behavior:
  • autocapitalize (on/off)

    You can turn on or off the automatic capitalizing of every word.
  • autocomplete (on/off)

    You can turn on or off the autocompletion of misspelled or partial words.
  • placeholder (string)

    You can specify some background placeholder text for the cell while it is empty. Once the cell has focus or text, the placeholder is no longer visible.