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Simple tutorial to give your site an iPhone interface (nettuts.com)
28 points by ca98am79 on Aug 21, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Something to keep in mind is that we are building a page specifically for the iPhone or iTouch.

I don't know about you guys, but when I make a website I actually make a website and want it to work in any browser. If you need a custom, alternative or lighter layout for mobile devices, this is what you have CSS and the media-attribute for.

Ignoring this for a second, the linked article also seems to have no way of handling future iPhones, iPods or alternate mobile devices with higher resolution. It consistently uses fixed-size images for layout and doesn't leave the browser any way to work beyond that.

So even if you are making a site targeting the iPod or iPhone specifically or just want a Appleish theme, this thing is as far from future-proof and flexible as you can get.

If I could downvote articles on hacker news, I would downvote this one in an instant.




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