“Univeristy of Washington’s Emerging Technology group published notes from Apple’s Developing Web Sites for iPhone session from WWDC last week. The blog entry provides some interesting information for users and web developers alike about the iPhone’s capabilities,” arn reports for MacRumors.
MacDailyNews Note: The notes have been pulled from Univeristy of Washington’s Emerging Technology group’s site: http://depts.washington.edu/etech/?p=88
Apple listed what the iPhone offers for websites:
– the page view feature lets you look at multiple websites and documents by scrolling thru them one after another
– Full PDF support
– double tap for zoom in
– one finger as a mouse used to
— pan page
— press and hold to display the information bubble
– two fingers as a mouse used to
— pinch content to shrink – zoom out
— pan page
— scroll wheel events
– new telephone links allows you to integrate phone calls directly from your webpage. remember this is only on safari.
– built in google maps client for integrated mapping from your website
MacRumors also summarizes iPhone Web page size limitations and restrictions that Apple noted in developing for the iPhone along with Apple’s web design recommendations in the full article here.
Safari works with:
HSBC in the UK works fine. Commonwealth in Oz works fine.
St George in Oz used to need ‘Block pop-ups’ off before running with Safari 2, but this is no longer needed with Safari 3 ßeta. No obvious change in web site, so presume it is a better browser. It had a problem with IE pop-ups in XP too.
Apple recommends the following design considerations:
“Use best practices, stupid.”
the other steve jobs: “flash wasn’t available because we didn’t want to give Adobe all the specs on the damn thing.
once its out – it won’t take us too long to get the Photoshop guys making their cute video-y plug-in done.”
This is certainly plausible. I would have to say, with Apple making a bid deal out of the iPhone being “the real internet” they pretty much have to make it flash compatible. They don’t have to make it Java compatible, but Flash is very much considered part of ‘the real internet’ by the wide majority of internet users.
Granted a lot of Flash websites stink, but let the users determine which of them they like and want to visit.
shen“you are welcome.
when safari first came out my wife was the lead auditor at wells, and i emailed the tech lead and pointed out that Apple had a new browser, and they better support it. 24 hours after i emailed him….”
Interesting story. If that’s true, then mad props to you!
One of my banks — La Salle Bank — did not support Safari 2.0, but thankfully Safari 3.0 works great.
KeyBank (Key Corp.)…. here are their requirements…
“We require Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher or Netscape 5.0 or higher”….
I figure that eventually they will get wise….but then again, they probably run Windows 95 on all their drones…
Wachovia for small business does not work with Safari, they are so dumb as to use ActiveX menus.
Citibank works well with Safari.
Bank of Toyland is fine too.
All banks fine for me has far has I know!
HSBC, UBS, BNP & post offices mainland Europe.
Actually check a account on BNP I was able to get info 24H’s before the bank manager in my district, he “they” use IBM machines “MS” of-course.
@the other steve jobs / Twighlight Moon
I think we forget that Flash is a competitor of Apples QuickTime technology. I suspect Flash was left out for a reason. Apple made it clear that apps that use web 2.0 standards will work, and flash is about as far away from web 2.0 compliant as you can get. Don’t hold your breath waiting for Flash support.
There was a problem for a while, but First Direct in the UK does now support Safari. Actually, they’ve been very public about how hard they worked to support Safari after their last site security update – they’ve even got a message about it on their front page at http://www.firstdirect.com/
Infomercials said “Wachovia for small business does not work with Safari, they are so dumb as to use ActiveX menus.”
I don’t know what kind of issues you’re having there but I’ve been using it with Safari 2 and 3 with no problems whatsoever.
First Direct UK specifically added Safari support recently. I’m interested that HSBC in UK is supposed to support it as HSBC in Australia breaks on Safari during transactions.
UK HSBC website for online banking used to work fine on Safari version 2 but now on Version 3.2.1 (5525.27.1) and cannot seem to use this service any longer. Anyone else having this issue?
@Basil Crichlow
Yes, I have the same problem – enter your details and the page refreshes blank rather than proceeding to the next level. F’Fox fixes the problem. No idea if it is a Safari or HSBC code error, but it has been this way for a couple of weeks so needs fixing.