ActiveMath on an iPod touch

Posted by Martin Homik | Posted in ActiveMath, Software | Posted on 04-12-2007

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A week ago I entered a Gravis Store for the very first time and tested an iPod touch. One of the outstanding features is its display and navigation by using a finger. Also, it provides a WLAN unit, so I typed in the browser URl of a quite challenging site: demo.activemath.org. It’s amazing, I never expected a good output. CSS is no problem and most formulae were rendered correctly. Except for the limit symbol/function. But this is an old well-known problem for which we have no fix yet. However, the display quality is great. And here we go. Click on the images to open large pictures.

ActiveMath on an iPod touch (1) ActiveMath on an iPod touch (2)

Unfortunately, I could not run a full test. That is, I did not login and I did not test any exercise. But at least, we expect that the input editor won’t work because it is embedded in a Java applet. Also, Java Script does not work properly as formula highlighting did not work. After a while, I must have done something wrong, because I could not follow any link on any page. Seems like the iPod touch crashed.

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