Ted Drake skrev:
Slightly off topic...
There is a really good Wordpress template/plugin that detects the very
specific user-agent for iphone and touch and changes your theme to an iphone
specific layout.
There is a plethora of such solutions covering most major
PHP-frameworks, RoR, etc. That is the really scaring part! However, I
suspected that most people on this list would stay away from that
solution. I thought that on this list that would be well understood by now.
Then I saw that even so called standrads aware developers started to use
"iphone" as part of the URL instead, which IMO is perheps less evil. But
only by a few degrees.
Sure, it's arguable if you should design for a particular appliance.
However, they've done the work for you and it works great, although a bit
generic in look and feel. You can always make adjustments to the theme for
personalization.
No it is not "arguable". Within the web standards aware community this
argument has been settled!
Come on people. Can't you see that this is *EXACTLY* the arguments ´that
were used in 1998 when people forked their code for MSIE and Netscape?
It "worked". It really did. In the short term.
Developing with the iPhone in mind (not "for" the iPhone) really should
mean nothing else than what it means to develop with e.g. Firefox 3.0 or
Opera 9.5 in mind. You can take advantage of the advanced features, if
you use them as progressive enhancement and capability test for them.
The only hard question is how you deal with what's *lacking* in the
iPhone: A cursor and a pointer!
Ohh, it's from Apple, it's shiny, it has no buttons - what is 10 years
of hard fought struggle for web standards worth in that perspective?
Zilch. It seems.
Lars Gunther
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