Apple Posts Web Development Guidelines for iPhone
Apple posted Web Development guidelines for the iPhone.
The Guidelines are organized into:
Understanding User-iPhone Interaction
Use Standards and Tried-and True Design Practices
Integrate with Phone, Mail and MAps
Optimize for Page Readability
Ensure a Great Audio and Video Experience
Know What Safari Supports on iPhone
Connect With Web Developers
A few web applications have already been released for the iPhone, but development has been very much by trial and error for these early iPhone applications.
Visit our iPhone App and Development forum for iPhone application discussion and releases.
Developers can create Web 2.0 applications that look and behave just like the applications built into iPhone, and provide seamless integration with iPhone applications and services including making a phone call, sending an email, and displaying a location in Google Maps. Third-party applications created using web standards can extend iPhone's capabilities without compromising its reliability or security.
The Guidelines are organized into:
Understanding User-iPhone Interaction
Use Standards and Tried-and True Design Practices
Integrate with Phone, Mail and MAps
Optimize for Page Readability
Ensure a Great Audio and Video Experience
Know What Safari Supports on iPhone
Connect With Web Developers
A few web applications have already been released for the iPhone, but development has been very much by trial and error for these early iPhone applications.
Visit our iPhone App and Development forum for iPhone application discussion and releases.
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60 months ago
hey I totally agree I love this idea it makes these web apps much better and less buggy
60 months ago
I hope that iLife's (or iWorks) next iWeb has a "develop for iPhone" template.
That would be cool. What would be equally as cool is if Apple put iWeb on the iPhone by way of a software update. Then I could update my website wherever I am! :)
60 months ago
it looks like this is basically what apple told the developers at WWDC. Of course that was all under NDA and i dint take notes, so its nice they have released this.
60 months ago
Very cool. Now mabye we'll finally start seeing some iPhone specific web games!
Being that I'm not a programmer and/or super duper savvy when it comes to the web compared to most of the folks on here I was wondering about something. Does anyone else thing that because Apple had to strike up a deal with a cellular company and thus give up being able to do a few things that they otherwise probably would've done (i.e. an iChat client or something similar) that they are going to get around any under the table agreements that they may have with AT&T by allowing developers to create web apps that fully take advantage of the iPhone's capabilities. Won't IM'ing be possible at some point thru iPhone's safari? Can't think of any other potential web ideas right now but there has got too be bajillions of them floating around out there.
Being that I'm not a programmer and/or super duper savvy when it comes to the web compared to most of the folks on here I was wondering about something. Does anyone else thing that because Apple had to strike up a deal with a cellular company and thus give up being able to do a few things that they otherwise probably would've done (i.e. an iChat client or something similar) that they are going to get around any under the table agreements that they may have with AT&T by allowing developers to create web apps that fully take advantage of the iPhone's capabilities. Won't IM'ing be possible at some point thru iPhone's safari? Can't think of any other potential web ideas right now but there has got too be bajillions of them floating around out there.
60 months ago
Apple is really blowing it with this. How am I supposed to use these apps on my commuter train which rarely has internet access, or on a plane? This is a the single biggest flaw with the iPhone. The web apps I've tried so far are pretty lame and no fun to use.
60 months ago
• Connect With Web Developers
Surely this is what iPhone is waiting for now that NDA's are no longer in force:D
60 months ago
That would be cool. What would be equally as cool is if Apple put iWeb on the iPhone by way of a software update. Then I could update my website wherever I am! :)
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