seanboy
10-08-2007, 07:03 AM
Hi,
This is from a post that I just made at namepros, which is very relevant to our forum as well:
Also, in recent months, there have been a number of "iPhone/iPod Touch" specific sites being released by independent developers. Most of them are taking advantage of the javascript/AJAX support that the safari browser offers. IMO, these sites are not traditional web sites but what I see as mobile apps/mobile widgets devliered to the end user, via the web.
It's best to view the following links using the safari browser
(http://www.apple.com/safari/):
http://www.appsafari.com/
http://www.iphonewidgetlist.com/
http://www.iphoneapplicationlist.com/
This presents an opportunity for mobile developers who are interested in the iphone platform. Especially for .mobi developers who don't want to be constrained to the dev standards laid out by mtld (for example, image sizes, javascript, etc. are not a "problem" for your site if you're designing it for the iphone/ipod touch). Most mobile browsers don't support javascript (which is a big pain). The iPhone/iPod Touch does. It's as if Apple has created a 3rd "bizzaro" mobile web with the release of these devices. I'm all for it :)
I hope some of what I said there made sense. It seems that many of my fellow .mobi supporters have blown off this phone, including mtld themselves. I don't understand why.
This is from a post that I just made at namepros, which is very relevant to our forum as well:
Also, in recent months, there have been a number of "iPhone/iPod Touch" specific sites being released by independent developers. Most of them are taking advantage of the javascript/AJAX support that the safari browser offers. IMO, these sites are not traditional web sites but what I see as mobile apps/mobile widgets devliered to the end user, via the web.
It's best to view the following links using the safari browser
(http://www.apple.com/safari/):
http://www.appsafari.com/
http://www.iphonewidgetlist.com/
http://www.iphoneapplicationlist.com/
This presents an opportunity for mobile developers who are interested in the iphone platform. Especially for .mobi developers who don't want to be constrained to the dev standards laid out by mtld (for example, image sizes, javascript, etc. are not a "problem" for your site if you're designing it for the iphone/ipod touch). Most mobile browsers don't support javascript (which is a big pain). The iPhone/iPod Touch does. It's as if Apple has created a 3rd "bizzaro" mobile web with the release of these devices. I'm all for it :)
I hope some of what I said there made sense. It seems that many of my fellow .mobi supporters have blown off this phone, including mtld themselves. I don't understand why.