Comments on: iPhone SDK for Web Developers

By: tyanon

tyanon — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:23:19 +0000

SlideShare of the presentation given by Mr. Malone…
http://themobileweb20.blogspot.com/2008/03/iphone-sdk-for-web-development.html

By: SteveElbows

SteveElbows — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:15:04 +0000

I dont think this stuff has made it into iphone or ipod touch safari yet, eg svg doesnt work. So you would need to spend $99 and live in the USA and be chosen by Apple, to perhaps see this tech on the iphone using the 2.0 firmware beta, if this stuff is included in the beta.

Best bet for now is to get webkit nightly build and start playing with svg and the accelerated css transforms. Ive had a little play and the results are very smooth, if a little cpu-intensive. Full svg animation support doesnt seem to have been finished in webkit yet either. I’ll post some basic samples later.

If Apple manage to pull off iphone hardware acceleration of the css transforms, then we may well be looking at a mobile platform that can handle DHTML animation with reasonable results. I assume this is Apples answer to Flash and Silverlight, and it has some potential.

By: perenzo

perenzo — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:08:16 +0000

Hi Justin, since WebKIT (AKA Safari) is used in Google Android, AIR, QT and many other frameworks developing a WebApp for iPhone should be easily transferable to other projects. It seems that offline mode for web apps like described in HTML5 is also to come, so forget the SDK and write web apps for the iPhone if you don’t need the camera and accelerators ;)

By: remy

remy — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:14:27 +0000

It’s great to see the DashCode has been upgraded to handle a lot of the cool page effects we were seeing on the iPhone version of Facebook – but it’s odd that it’s not easy to find any written documentation on the new features.

That said, you can find documentation, or at least examples on the WebKit site – which I assume 1.1.4 upgrades MobileSafari and pulls in the new features of WebKit.

By: paulmwatson

paulmwatson — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:22:20 +0000

JustinCarter, hopefully the same “graceful degradation” practices are used. Obviously there will be plenty of devs who use DashCode and spit out iPhone-only sites but the rest of us can integrate the new capabilities into our sites which will still work on desktop and other mobile phones.

By: JustinCarter

JustinCarter — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 05:44:39 +0000

So… now we will be seeing web apps that will only work on 1 mobile platform? Great, just what we need.

By: kward

kward — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:59:35 +0000

Wrong again! You do NOT have to fork up $99. The SDK is *free*. The $99 is for native apps, to be distributed via iTunes, not web applications that you will host on your own.