Will You Change Your Web Site For the iPhone?

An anonymous reader calls to our attention a blog post about the way the iPhone's multi-touch UI will strain the interface conventions of Web 2.0. This looming clash comes clearer as Apple releases more details of the iPhone's UI. Much has been made about the iPhone including Safari to provide a full web browsing experience. But this reader is wondering how compatible certain sites will be with the iPhone's input. From the post: "[Web 2.0-style interaction] makes somewhat heavy use of 'onmouse' events and cursor changes... along with CSS a:hover styles. The iPhone challenges those particular Web 2.0 conventions, though, because it is a device that not only adds support for another pointer, but at the same time eliminates them as interface objects... [T]he user doesn't get to express their attention with the iPhone... They only get to express their immediate action." This reader asks, "What other pitfalls lurk in the multi-touch web? Do any Slashdot readers plan to adjust their sites to ensure they work with the iPhone, and can you think of any similar issues that will crop up with such a different browsing experience?"

Comments

Yeah, right

[rueger]

Most people here won't go out of their way to make a site work with Internet Explorer, and IE has 70% of the market... and you want to know of they'll accommodate the quirks of a cel phone?

Segway

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm sure I remember a quote from Dean Kamen claiming cities will be rebuild to accomodate the Segway. Yeah, they're almost done I think.

Re:Won't be a big deal

[Joebert]

Who submits their forms when an arbitrary item loses mouse focus?

Porn sites.
Everything on thoose sites seems to submit a form, they're worse than the DMV.

My personal website will be redesigned...

[Travoltus]

[html]
[!-- some CGI crap: if browser == iphone then [size=6]HANG THAT MOTHER FSCKER THE FSCK UP AND DRIVE!!!!![/size] -->
[/html]

Re:Conjecture about the iPhone?

[Haeleth]

T-mobile offers unlimited data on their Sidekick plans for only $20 a month (this includes internet, email, aim, and text).

Is this "unlimited" as in "unlimited", or the more usual "unlimited" as in "the limit is secret, and if you exceed it we'll tell the press you were stealing movies"?

Re:Hype, hype, hype

[Quiet_Desperation]

Can someone please tell me how Apple pulls this off?

Magic runes, chutzpah and Steve Jobs' third testicle.

Re:Conjecture about the iPhone?

[Divebus]

I'll second [million] that. About one-third of the people in my company have already asked if they'll be able to access our CRM system from the iPhone. My choice is to make sure it works or face an angry mob with torches and pitchforks.