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If you're a web developer with a hankerin' to write for the iPhone, this is for you. Apple has posted an informative webpage that the outlines iPhone-specific guidelines you'll want to keep in mind, as we as some more general best practices. Topics include:
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Niles said 8:04PM on 7-04-2007
11 out of 15 articles on the front page about the iPhone? It's great, it's cool, but either change the name of this blog to TUiPW or put something Mac OS-related up.
Seriously. There's no shortage of iPhone information out there. I guess the solution is to start selectively using the iPhone-free RSS feed from now on instead of just opening the page (and banner advertisements).
Once TUAW goes back to a more balanced coverage, I guess I'll change back, but now, c'mon! Start a new blog or something!
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Josh said 8:45PM on 7-04-2007
This is ridiculous. I'm so sick of the iPhone. I agree with the previous comment about it's initial coolness, but this is getting out of hand. There has been an overwhelming overload of information concerning this new trinket. Yeah, it does a lot of neat stuff, but it's irrelevant to a large group of mac users. Let's move on...
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David said 8:50PM on 7-04-2007
On the contrary - keep the iPhone news coming. Sure there is an awful lot being said but I've been waiting for an announcement like this - so we can customize our apps for iPhone.
Good work TUAW.
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Reg Muffet said 9:00PM on 7-04-2007
TUAW set up an iPhone-free feed for the curmudgeons. And correct me if I'm wrong, but TUAW stands for "The Unofficial APPLE Weblog."
iPhone is a huge part of Apple's activities at the moment.
I doubt any of the key personnel at Apple got much sleep over the past few days. The big brains (tm) were seconded from Leopard to make sure its software was first rate. Everyone's efforts came to a head over the past week.
This launch had the potential to make or break the company.
Any blog about Apple that didn't show due attention to such an important product would not be doing its job.
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Josh said 9:30PM on 7-04-2007
Exactly. I don't have an iPhone and I probably won't get one for a while because, frankly, I don't have that kind of money lying around. However, I love hearing about the new things one can do with the iPhone, how its impacting everyone else, how much I am going to enjoy it when I have one, how much its making AAPL rise, how to hack it. All of that stuff is interesting. Do you guys not like consumer electronics? You ONLY like full-blown computers? What if, say, a sans-phone next gen iPod came out and there were 11 stories out of 15? I bet many of you would love every post about it. Then, of course, some people hate iPods and would say "Enough with the iPod 6G I'm sick and tired of it!" Seriously, everyone, get a grip. This is the news right now, live with it or go take a frickin nature walk. Maybe, you can go blog on your website how Apple has lost its focus. Obviously, the writers for TUAW do not agree with you.
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Josh said 9:31PM on 7-04-2007
to clafiry, im not the same josh as comment 2
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PSM said 12:06AM on 7-05-2007
I don't have an iPhone because of the lack of features. I support any discussion of development, hacks, etc. that will make this device more useful than it currently is. There's a lot of rehashed info about the iPhone, but IMO any talk of software and further development is good.
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Macintologist said 12:31AM on 7-05-2007
I don't have an iPhone but I love reading about it. Don't listen to the loud minority.
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David said 12:51AM on 7-05-2007
I don't have an iPhone, nor do I mind reading all the updates. But I would much rather read tuaw without all the iphone stuff. I think this product is big enough, and there is enough info to have its own blog...
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John Kenneth Fisher said 12:59AM on 7-05-2007
Right, how dare you focus coverage on the product line where things are actually happening. Especially when so much has happened with Apple's other product lines in the last week. What? Not much has happened with those? What? You still reported on the few things that did?
Remind me to see if these people are complaining about the rush of Leopard-related articles for the first few weeks of its release.
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developers said 2:49AM on 7-05-2007
Iphone is the rage now. So cash in.
Web developers
http://www.chrisranjana.com
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Chris said 5:27AM on 7-05-2007
Half a million Americans are now holding Leopard in their hands. We are seeing the ubiquitous animations in the next-gen UI, the beginnings of a multi-touch OS, the soaring of Apple stock, and whether or not the Leopard delay was worth it.
Besides, Apple isn't releasing any more big hardware updates (anything with a display) until Leopard ships, since that'll depend on Resolution Independence.
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PeiPei said 6:00AM on 7-05-2007
Why are they using the old design of the apple.com site in their screenshots?
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Cowicide said 9:09AM on 7-05-2007
Dammut to hell... how about a "how to make the iPhone work with our own Apple technology?" section?? Namely, Apple Quicktime VR? It's so sad and ironic that you can view an Apple Quicktime VR object movie of an iPod on the Apple website, but you can't look at an object movie or a panorama using the iPhone. Apple's incompatibility with itself is causing a collapse and black hole that is creating a big suck.
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Quix said 10:31AM on 7-05-2007
"or put something Mac OS-related up" - Niles
Note to Niles: the iPhone *is* Mac-OS related.
Geez, people have been begging for Apple to release a mobile software platform for years, and now that they finally do people are complaining about the excessive coverage.
Don't care about it? Don't read about it! Oh, and don't comment about it either. Thanks.
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New York Web Designer said 1:35AM on 7-16-2007
Other questions, too. Widgets? The new Leopard OS?
http://www.deitschel.com/new-york-web-design.php
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Christopher Allen said 3:24AM on 8-02-2007
The document released by Apple this week only tells the beginning of the story of how to optimize web pages for the iPhone and develop webapps. The www.iPhoneWebDev.com developer community has been working hard to fill in the gaps of missing information. Since Friday we've figured out some best practices for viewport settings, discovered how to hide the URL bar to make more space available to web apps, how to detect orientation changes (portrait to landscape and back), and have made progress on quite a few issues and work arounds for a number of bugs. If you are a web coder, check out our archives and come join our community of developers helping developers!
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