This application provides a web-based colaborative writing space which is updateable by SMS message or from a Browser. One use we are making of this is to gather comments on an issue from members of a class, either during a lecture or later. Comments can be re-arranged on the board or replied to via SMS.
This application provides, as web pages, 'boards' on which 'tiles' of text are displayed.
Tiles represent messages which have been sent by a mobile phone or from a browser.
The tiles can be rearranged or deleted in the browser.
When a tile is selected, full details of the message are displayed. Replies can be entered which are put on the board and sent to the
sender if the message originated from a phone.
Messages are texted to the IS school SMS service 0762 480 3759 and must begin with the allocated prefix for the board.
Users may attach a name or nickname to their mobile phone number which will be displayed when the tile is selected by sending the message:
ME myname.
to the same number.
This application is also being developed as a teaching example of interactive applications using the so-called AJAX capability of browsers , the data structures (tree-structures in the DOM and tables (in the MySQL database) it requires the use oF DHTML to support drag and drop. It is very much a work in progress. At present the display runs on Firefox ,Opera, Chrome and Safari. As of 1/10/08 and thanks to help from James Raspass, it also now works on IE7.