JavaScriptr » Mobile http://www.javascriptr.com A blog about JavaScript and other web development technologies Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:36:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Scripting for the iPhone http://www.javascriptr.com/2007/07/12/scripting-for-the-iphone/ http://www.javascriptr.com/2007/07/12/scripting-for-the-iphone/#comments Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:11:27 +0000 Henry B. http://www.javascriptr.com/2007/07/12/scripting-for-the-iphone/ There’s a lot of buzz in the web development community about developing for the iPhone. I’ve been following this topic since the Apple announcement last month.

I’m all for it. This is a big step for web development on portable devices. I hope other pda and smartphone makers follow Apple’s lead. I took a quick look at the developer documentation today and found some interesting things I wanted to point out.

  • Integrate phone calls, maps and emails using links. Mail and map links are not different from what we use on normal browsers (“mailto:anemail@domain.com” and ” http://maps.google.com?address”) but phone links use a new url format which starts with “tel:”.
    Here’s an example:

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    <a href="tel:1-123-444-5555">Call Me</a>
  • Assign an iPhone style sheet with the link tag. 
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    <link 
  media="only screen and (max-device-width: 480px)"
  href="iPhone.css"
  type="text/css"
  rel="stylesheet" />

    This is new to me. Seems like its part of the CSS3 recommendation.

  • iPhone doesn’t support window.showModalDialog(), mouse-overs, hover styles, tool tips, java applets, flash, plugin installation or custom x.509 certificates.
  • PDFs, Cookies and user-initiated window-open calls are supported but there’s a limit of 8 pages (8 open windows) in page view.

Here are some iPhone third party apps:
http://www.launchpadhq.com/
http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/502-ta-da-list-for-iphone
http://digg.com/iphone

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