I am a graphic designer/web designer so I found this article interesting.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=333
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=333
Thank you so much for this!I am a graphic designer/web designer so I found this article interesting.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=333
Yes, and of course web apps for the iPhone will have to be kept to small sizes to look like internal apps.For people in the web design/development community, are we really going to have to start designing with the iPhone in mind?
Wow.....
I hope not. While Apple's decision (at this time) to limit developers to web pages, I hope these web pages are able to be saved on the iPhone. (Say in a "package archive" format, like a widget).For people in the web design/development community, are we really going to have to start designing with the iPhone in mind.
Agreed! I really hate the way Apple is spinning developers on this trying to pawn off web applications for "real" iPhone applications that can take advantage of the cool technologies the iPhone includes, such as the Accelerometer, Bluetooth, etc.If Apple would just own up ....
Yes for the first. Yes and no for the second, I'd say.I think the point of the article was for developing web apps for the iPhone. Standard web design and pages should be just fine on the iPhone.
I'm not sure those handheld browser issues apply to the iPhone. Pages are scaled to fit the width of the screen. So now it looks small, but you can clearly see (160 ppi) the different elements. Then you tap to zoom in on an element. Using this method zooms in so the element fits the width. Your example of this text area is that zoming in on this element would cause the textarea to fit the width of the screen and "just work."Yes for the first. Yes and no for the second, I'd say.
If you've ever used one of the "real internet" mobile browsers before, you'll know how painful it is to scroll left/right to read a column of text that's wider than the screen. And that happens a lot.
Heck look at this textarea I'm typing in right now. Glancing at this page, it has:
style="width:540px; height:250px"
which just ain't going be pretty on an iPhone.
Small screens are small screens, whether you get a big overview or not. That's just the way it is, no matter how much any company tries to claim otherwise. Just watch the demos whenever they bring up a page with width too wide to read... they always stop or just click a link to run away.
To keep an audience, websites that cater to iPhone will either need to whip themselves into shape whenever they sniff an iPhone, or at least rewrite themselves to be a lot more width agnostic.
Been there, done that, for years on handhelds.
Umm, my apologies, I'm not sure what you mean. I'm saying it does NOT work. The text will overflow the screen width when you zoom.I'm not sure those handheld browser issues apply to the iPhone. Pages are scaled to fit the width of the screen. So now it looks small, but you can clearly see (160 ppi) the different elements. Then you tap to zoom in on an element. Using this method zooms in so the element fits the width. Your example of this text area is that zoming in on this element would cause the textarea to fit the width of the screen and "just work."