iPhone Web Development
I haven’t found much info on developing for the iPhone, but this link provides some good info. Here are some extracts:
- Safari User Agent for iphone:: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A538a Safari/419.3
- No Java, No Flash
- HTML5
- 10MB max html size for web page
- Javascript limited to 5 seconds run time
- Javascript allocations limited to 10MB
- 8 documents maximum loaded on the iPhone due to page view limitations
- Quicktime used for audio and video
- stylesheet device width:480px
- there are no scroll bars or resize knobs. the iphone will automatically expand the content
- new telephone links allows you to integrate phone calls directly from your webpage. remember this is only on safari.
- built in google maps client for integrated mapping from your website
- iPhone screen size 480×320
- encode movie size 480×360
- Links to movies on a web page will take users directly to video full screen playback
I didn’t have to say in line to buy an iPhone, the Apple Store in Aspen Groove served everyone that was waiting in line in about 30 minutes, I just happened to go eat next to the Apple Store with my wife and kids ;-). So I just picked one up on the way to the Restaurant, zero wait. The store is open to midnight but there is not too much activity. I guess only geeks like me (or Sol) will try to pick one the first day, even while being fully aware of the limitations or the price. And this despite that I told everyone that in no way I will get one. Note, we have to test our different web applications on the new platform. ATT seems a little overwhelmed and iTunes provides me with a nice message that it will take a little longer and I will be notified by email when I can activate the phone. Note that I just received a follow-up email that telling me to that the phone will be activated by July 1st noon.
Daniel Wanja
HTML5, iOS and Ruby On Rails Nouvelles Solutions, Inc.
d@n-so.com
