Making the Web a Better Place for iPhone

Even though the true nature of the iPhone's capabilities when it comes to browsing the Web have yet to be confirmed or denied, a group of eager web developers, designers, and other enterprising folks are anticipating the iPhone's impending release. Not only that, they are already planning an event to help improve the Web browsing experience for all users of the device. According to Apple Insider, the free event, dubbed the iPhone Developers Camp, will feature an agenda of classes and seminars aimed at "making the Web a better place for Apple, Inc.'s upcoming mobile handset."

So, if you're a developer, a designer, an interested party who wants to help out or you just want to see a bunch of people with using iPhones in the wild, you may want to mark July 6-8 on your calendar and plan on attending the event. For more info, there's always the event's official site. I admit to not knowing a whole bunch about developing Web applications or designing anything of real value, but as someone who will definitely be getting an iPhone as soon as I possibly can, having the best possible Web browsing experience while using it sounds like a great thing to me.

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Source: http://barcamp.org/iPhoneDevCamp

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Joseph

where can i sign-up for this? couldn't find any links on the "official site".

Thanks.

June 20 2007 at 10:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

peet

If there is one thing I have my doubts about with the IPhone is the web browsing. Yeah, there is WiFi, but the truth is that there currently just aren't that many free access spots.

But they are using the AT&T system which is the slowest of all the cell services and we know how slow it is to browse the net on ANY of the cell services with the tiny bandwidth WAP sites.

Apple is promising that you can do normal web browsing on this thing and I have no idea how they are going to pull that off with the miserably slow and narrow bandwidth it will be limited to.

Can anyone explain that to me?

June 20 2007 at 10:18 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

basscadet

someone please think of us web designers and developers and please please please stick to the standards already popular. I'd hate to make different versions of the same site for IE, Mozilla, Opera & Safari. If they stray away too far, a limited internet experience they'll offer.

June 20 2007 at 8:59 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

matt

Speaking of not knowing much, do we know if you can use the iPhone to carry files around, like with the iPod? Or are you locked into only playing video, music, viewing photos, etc?

It's amazing there's this support for the web apps. I thought the "use web 2.0" suggestion from Steve was a cop out.

June 20 2007 at 8:47 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply