iPhone breaks device-free web coding principle
16 January 2007I can't believe it. Just when I was starting to think there were a few web designers out there who understood the principle of designing sites that can be viewed on any browser on any device, Apple go and break the principle on their new iPhone.
Apple claims the Safari browser built into the new iPhone is really advanced, and
...lets you see any web page the way it was designed to be seen, then easily zoom in by simply tapping on the multi-touch display with your finger."
What? How do they work out how web sites are designed to be seen? Do they mean how they look on their high-definition, wide-screen Mac machines? I hope not.
Google at least see the benefit of pushing a special web page to handheld devices, although I wish they'd used web standards and a handheld style-sheet instead of java script, but the result is the similar and it shows they are thinking about their audience.
Labels: mobile design, web design
posted by Greg on Tuesday, January 16, 2007,
