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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?"
On my production sites, I simply give the user a nice error message when they attempt to visit the site using broken web browsers such as Safari, and in some cases Internet Explorer.
Free means no restrictions, ironic the FSF's GPL forces restrictions, isn't it? What's your definition of free?
To make sure that iPhone users can't view it. Before you douchebags attack me for being a troll or whatever, my websites have 0 viewers to begin with so it serves no purpose other than to make me feel better.
In related news, iPhone is going to bomb so it won't be of much concern anyway. Also, "Web 2.0" is still one of the stupidest words/phrases ever created on the Internet.
The Farewell Tour II
Write to them you don't have to worry if something will work.
ROFLMFAO
R(k)
No. Wait...nah, still no. I ain't redesigning any site so some rich gadget fetishist can feel justified in his investment of an impractical web surfing device.
Another way of putting this:
Dear Editors and Submitters,
FUCK the iPhone. Fuck it right in its over-hyped motherfucking ear.
Thank you.
Wow, your understanding of web applications is truly amazing, i really look forward to hire you as a web developer.
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
Jesus christ dude. Shut the fuck up.
Your pseudocode belittles even those who ride the bus to work. Was this intended?
And if you can't write "propper" English, perhaps you should work on that instead of flaming people for using creative license?