Web Design for iPhone
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Mobile phones have long been able to access the Web, but anyone who’s ever been to wherever.com via their phone knows it’s an exercise in frustration. Squashed images, missing content, a postage stamp screen; it’s more scrolling than browsing. Hence, designing for mobile phones became all about elimination. Eliminate images, content; eliminate functionality.
But as iPhone sales are approaching 5 million, mobile browsing is getting to be more and more like surfing the Web instead of just bathing in it.
Do I need an iPhone-customized website?
Do monkey’s need spacesuits? Of course not, as devices get better, mobile-specific sites become less necessary. But even as monkeys don’t need spacesuits in the jungle, those with more lunar aspirations surely could use one. So while you don’t need an iPhone friendly site, having one puts you that much closer to the moon.
Want examples? Point your iPhone at bike-pgh.org or my own website.