Twittering From My Newton

What am I doing?

Why, Twittering from my Newton, of course.

Here’s the result.

Using Steve Weyer’s amazing Newt’s Cape browser, I am able to sign into my Twitter account and use the standard – if rather interestingly rendered – input form.

A couple of things to note: Images on the page are missing due to the fact that neither Newt’s Cape nor the Newton OS will render PNG files natively; and CSS is not parsed, therefore the style sheet declaration is displayed inline with the other text within the body of the page.

To take full advantage of Flickr, you should use a JavaScript-enabled browser and
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Tracey Family [deleted] says:

Awesome.....
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

Crazy Apple Rumors says:

You are a god among men, sir.
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

Andrew Crow says:

Makes want to dust off the 2100 tonight!
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

zuhl says:

That is hardcore. Nice.
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

hyph-n says:

wonderful! -- i'm going to try it myself with my 2100!

btw - perhaps you could try the Mobile version of the twitter website, might be kinded to the NetScape...
m.twitter.com
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

waferbaby says:

Makes me want to one-up you. Twitter from a Speak n' Spell, or something.
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

morgant says:

Excellent!

I tried to do this a while ago, but I think I skipped trying Newt's Cape for some reason (probably because I didn't have it installed).

I still would love to get my hands on Eckhart's new CLI Newton development tools so I could write a real Twitter client. In the meantime I've been resuscitating my Mystic Color Classic for that job.
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

splorp says:

Thank you all for your very kind words.

@hyph-n I did try Mobile Twitter … here are the results. As indicated, the problem is that Mobile Twitter uses the “XHTML Mobile” doctype which is not parsable by any current web browsers available for the Newton. The standard Twitter site works, cookies and all.

@waferbaby Get on it. iPhones and such are so 2007.

@morgant I was thinking of looking at modifying Adam Tow’s source code for nBlog. This would be a good starting point for a simple posting application, as it already has XML-RPC hooks.
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

27ray says:

that's cool
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

morgant says:

@splorp Or at least use Adam's open-source XML-RPC library, also listed on his source page. Hadn't thought of that.

My Colo[u]r Classic is nearly up and running for Newton development, so we'll see.
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

gordasm says:

Düde, that is so hawt!!!
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

Riccardo Mori says:

On a quasi-related note, I vote for using 'Newton' as a verb. "What are you doing?" "Newtoning, of course" :)

Cheers
Rick (who is, erm, also eMating at the moment – heh...)
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

splorp says:

@morgant I’ve been in contact with Gavin McKenzie, who had made several improvements to Adam’s nBlog, nHTML and XML-RPC. He is digging the last revisions of his source code out of his Subversion repository and sending them to me to look at. If we‘re going to work from Adam’s code, it may as well be using the latest version.

@gordasm Hawt like you drop it. FTW!

@riccardo I just Newton’d that suggestion.
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

morgant says:

@splorp Excellent! I was wondering what this was all about. Obviously I'd love to add the source to UNNA if it's recoverable.
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

TahoeSunsets says:

Grant: Take twitter, glue it onto flickr, and you'll find yourself at...

www.zooomr.com/

And yes, zooomr too, Newtons well.

Side note: Web 2.0 is making the Newton useful on the web.
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

Camera Wences says:

Crazy nerdy!
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

splorp says:

@morgant The code is in the house. Ping me.

@TahoeSunsets I keep trying to use Zooomr, but it’s painfully slow for me. And it just keeps feeling too much like it wants to be Flickr, but can’t figure out how to be Flickr … rather than trying to do its own unique thing. As for Web 2.0 … that’s not what is making the web play nice with our Newtons … it’s the properly coded, standards-compliant sites that are usually part of the Web 2.0 experience. I can name more “2.0” site that won’t work on the Newton than ones that do.

@Camera Crazy like a newt.
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

Luc Latulippe says:

Holy crap! I bow to your superior kung-fu.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

splorp says:

Shouldn’t that be twit-fu? Or newt-fu?
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

er-minio says:

I want a 2100... now! :-)
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

splorp says:

No doubt. That’s a very common reaction.
Posted 3 months ago. ( permalink )

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