I promise I’ll stop talking about the iPhone soon. Like, really 
In the meantime – test your site out on the iPhoney – a simulator for testing your site or web application on the iPhone.
Or check out what the iPhone will do by downloading Apple’s 20 minute guided tour. I’ve only made it through to the 5 min mark so far – but even that shows some nice features.
The rest of this post is a bit techy – so if you don’t lean towards the geeky side of the spectrum, you might want to skip to the next one…
One of the reasons I think keeping an eye on the iPhone is important is that it’s the first device I’ve seen that really handles web access well. It’s built-in wifi is part of the reason – but also some nice feature added to Safari.
But the underlying web-browser, WebKit (which is the guts of the Safari web browser) is also available on Nokia phones, and is open-source (so may popup in other browsers too.) So there is broader benefit to watching Safari and the iPhone. And, if the iPhone becomes even remotely as popular as the iPod, it will also influence what others in the market do, and will become a browser that requires support from web developers.
That last point has implications for many websites – not just ones targeted at mobile devices. Of course, standards compliant code will make the job of supporting the iPhone a lot easier. And from what I’ve seen Safari 3 implements some excellent new CSS features which will support some nice designs possible using even leaner and more semantic markup – great for designers and users alike.
As an aside – I remember Dave Hyatt, Safari’s lead developer, mentioning issues of resolution independence a while back on the Safari development blog hinting that they had some cool things coming – now we know what
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Buy me one and I’ll be you friend
while your at it, I’ll have one too
I too am stuck in the iPhone warp – which blows when you live in Australia. So I whipped up a similar tester at http://iphonetester.com/ to allow us developers to see what would site will look like on the small screen.
ok so the hacks are out and its now just matter of grabbing one from the next person who flies in from the states .. to wet your appetites though this post covers some of the benefits from a mac developers perspective …
http://www.marketcircle.com/blog/?p=39
Thanks for sharing this information. I visited various iPhone site and come to know that Safari 3 is best browser for iPhone. It support CSS 3 functionality.