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After many failed attempts of trying to find a modal window that worked like facebox and used prototype, I gave up and started to write one from scratch. In the process I found the first port made by Phil Burrows. It wasn’t perfect but it was enough for me to build off of so with a few tweaks I was able to allow window resizing and let the box center itself. You can view the changes on my github.

Screenshot:

My Version of Facebox in our timetracker application

The iPhone application we recently developed for SpotCrime just got written up in a TechCrunch article at http://tinyurl.com/5hnx38.

The iPhone application itself is available at spotcrime.com/iphone.php.

The iPhone application has been a success so far and is being used by thousands of iPhone users every day. It is currently the seventh most popular travel application in the Apple iPhone Travel Webapps directory.

Developing this application was a fun project for us because we were able to learn the “ins and outs” of the custom programming functions available to iPhone web applications. Some neat features of the webapp:

• Rotating your phone will cause the map to go full-screen
• User-friendly buttons for navigating the map: the buttons are round and somewhat transparent, making the most of the small screen
• Easily navigable list of cities for which crimes are reported

For more information and more images, see our portfolio entry for the SpotCrime iPhone webapp.