TV Guide on the Mac

I suppose it was only a matter of time until I managed to get some Mac screenshots of the guide to complete the picture! Here are some with the guide running in Safari:

My virtual machine was running OS X 10.3 which presented a bit of a Java version problem, but once I'd targetted my build at Java 1.4.12, everything was fine. I see that Apple have updated to at least Java 1.5 on the latest OS X, so that would not be a problem on a real machine.

Here it's possible to see the search screen. Bear in mind all of these pages are designed to be seen from an armchair rather than your computer screen..


The Mac, as usual, does a lovely job of rendering the Java applet and web pages. I feel like I've been writing native Mac applications all my life ;-)

From my testing, I can see that the design will probably need a little modification to suit every platform, and given that there is less information displayed in the web TV guide than the Windows version (by default, to reduce load times) I think the channels could be a bit thinner and the vertical programme height a bit shorter. These are easily solvable however, and then it should be working just how I want it!