Jun 21

iPhone Browser Capabilities and Guidelines

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Some iPhone browser capabilities and restrictions:

  • 10MB max html size for web page
  • Javascript limited to 5 seconds run time
  • Javascript allocations limited to 10MB
  • 8 documents maximum loaded on the iPhone due to page view limitations
  • Quicktime used for audio and video
  • No Java
  • No Flash

and in features:

  • 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
  • two fingers as a mouse used to
  • 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
Jun 12

Safari 3 Public beta Available for Windows

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Safari for windows have just been announced today during the Apple WWDC conference. The new Beta is available for download free for Mac, WinXP and Vista, and will make the competition between browsers very aggressive after that IE stopped its development for mac platform. Some interesting performance numbers have been announced on the new Safari home page, according to it :

  • HTML performance: Safari3 2.14 Seconds, FF2 3.67s, IE7 4.63s and Opera9 6.22s
  • JavaScript performance : Safari3 0.88 Seconds, Opera9 0.98s, FF2 1.72s and IE7 2.48s
  • Application launch : Safari3 1.74 Seconds, Opera9 1.82, FF2 2.22s and IE7 2.34s

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The tests have been made on a 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo-based iMac system running Windows XP Professional SP2, configured with 1GB of RAM and an ATI Radeon X1600 with 128MB of VRAM. The greatest news for today, it’s just not working correctly on my winxp !

Update: Safari for windows seems to be good only as iPhone validator (for buzz words lovers). Applications running correctly on Safari will work fine on iPhone also according to Steve Jobs. Otherwise better call this a pre-alpha.

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