Rewriting Yourself for the iPhone

Another website “optimises” itself for the iPhone. I do hope that every other gadget on the market gets a version of Picasa Webpages that makes best use of its own unique attributes.
As I said previously, I’m getting really fed up of everybody rushing to write iPhone specific versions of their sites. I’ve no problem with generic mobile versions, or “lite” versions of sites. But it’s really dangerous having to write new versions for every device.
I know that some sites that use lots of AJAX actually have browser dependent versions which differ depending on how Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer or Safari handle different elements, but there are a relatively limited number of browsers.


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2 responses to “Rewriting Yourself for the iPhone”

  1. Jake avatar
    Jake

    Why wouldn’t Google? Recent surveys indicate the iPhone and iPod Touch versions of Safari are the most common mobile browsers, and unarguably the most capable.

  2. Adam Bowie avatar

    Really? Do you think that there aren’t more Windows Mobile phones currently in the market, or Symbian browsers in Nokia phones?
    Of course there are.
    But the fact is that developing bespoke versions of your website for every new device is a rocky road you don’t want to go down. That’s why we have web standards – to avoid the need to do that.