Index: /trunk/MobileIndico/README.md =================================================================== --- /trunk/MobileIndico/README.md (revision 18637) +++ /trunk/MobileIndico/README.md (revision 18637) @@ -0,0 +1,133 @@ +Mobile Indico +============= + +Mobile Indico is a simple web-page which converts an indico timetable +into a mobile webpage. The trick is to request the data through the +Indico Export API (https://indico.readthedocs.io/en/master/http_api/) +and display it in a mobile friendly way. + +Therefore, the webpage requests the timetable (see 2.3.3) as JSON +object which is then formatted to HTML in a Javascript. To avoid that a +server is required (e.g. php script) which retrieves the JSON (to work +around restirctions on cross site scripting) the JSONP interface is +used. + +The trick of JSONP is to wrap the JSON opject into a script (Javascript +function) and insert a