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August 23, 2007

"Looks best in iPhone"

"Looks best in iPhone": The Web Standards Project handles the tricky question of iPhone's morality: "Since its release, designers and developers have been building interfaces to their sites and applications for the iPhone. Unfortunately, many have been doing so in a way that leaves the remainder of the mobile web with nothing...." Discussion follows. Me, I'm ambivalent... I was never sold on the idea that one HTML presentation would serve all needs (language issues alone would preclude that)... fascinating issue, though. If "Looks best in Internet Explorer" was evil, then how would the iPhone's HTML be different...?

Posted by JohnDowdell at August 23, 2007 01:56 PM

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I am doing 2 presentations at MAX and Flashforward this year. The topic is "Circle of Engagement" and it talks directly to this topic.

The truth is, people often confuse:

"The Unviersal Experience"

with

"The Universal Runtime"

Truth is, The Universal Experience will never exist. If it did, HTML is certainly not the way to define it.

Posted by: Tony MacDonell at August 23, 2007 02:14 PM

I believe it is about perception, people can be manipulated, for some reason Apple is perceived good (or mostly good) so whatever they make will be regarded with a special eye (even when sometimes are abismal failures, anybody remember the Mac Cube or when far too numerous customers reports quality construction problems) but going back to HTML, at the end of the day the iPhone is a small screen device like many others and probably google-style website (more content less eye candy) are a very good way of presenting information on such devices. Over designed, over engineered web sites are far too common these days and are unusable on small screen. You also have to take into account that the WebKit, the core of Safari, also powers the browser of the vast majority of Nokia smartphones, so, there is a very good chance that website will look and behave the same across the vast majority of smartphone devices.

Posted by: Emanuele Cipolloni at August 24, 2007 12:06 AM