Birth: December 2007
Technologies: Python, Canvas, Tomoe
Back before there were native iPhone apps, there were only Mobile Safari apps. Using a Japanese handwriting recognition library with Python bindings (Tomoe) I wrote a simple server to classify a group of lines as Chinese characters. Because one cannot drag on the iPhone (because such a gesture is interpreted as scrolling), I designed an interface in which single taps either started or continued a stroke, and double taps ended a stroke. In addition to just character matching, pronunciation and definitions were added for each character
This was retired when Apple embedded native character recognition into the iPhone firmware