UPDATE

I am experimenting with writing an iPhone rosary. If anyone is interested you can find at http://earlychurchfathers.org/fullcircle/rosary.php. Apparently I have been told that using pixed pixel sizing is causing problems with some iPhones. Check it out and give me some feedback. I would really appreciate it.

This is not an application but a simple web site that is geared more towards use with the iPhone. I asked some of my friends with iPhones to try it out and they indicated that it had scaling issues. I spent some time working on that and it scales great in Firefox and in Safari on my PC. The cool part, from a nerd perspective, was my need to scale background images on the center button. You are fairly limited here. My solution was to write a small block of PHP code that takes a JPEG URL and a scale factor and returns a scaled JPG. That way I could reference it like any other image and it would work when the screen was rescaled. For example, here is the header image above rescaled to 40%:



Its not perfect ... in fact its lousy for wide screen configurations. I'll work on the math some if there is a need for it. The rest of it is pretty much CSS and Javascript. It is fully contained in the source so you should be able to view source, save and play with it locally if you want.

You don't have to have an iPhone to try the interface out. Just use your mouse like you would use your fingers on the iPhone. Click away.

Here is a brief overview with some screenshots ...

First screen, contains Apostles Creed (gray), Our Father (red), 3 Hail Marys (black), Glory be (green). The prev and next buttons move forward or backwards in the rosary. At each phase it resets the prayers to the darker color (unsaid).


When you click on them they turn a lighter color


This is an example of a decade with an image of the mystery


Clicking on the center image hides it. Clicking a prayer after that shows the text of the prayer (for dolts like me who have yet to learn them all)


This final shot is of the last screen which is reserved for the Hail Holy Queen (purple)


I have only done ONE mystery. The others will happen as I select images. I may even change the colored squares to bead like images. Its workable on an iPhone ... even with the small text. You can zoom in slightly to make even the Apostles Creed readable ... well, at least I think so.

Seriously ... I would appreciate feedback.