Web development for iPhone

I'm looking to develop a web site for use by the iPhone. Is there a best practice around development? Should I be detecting and redirecting to a dedicated location (http://iphone.name.com), or detecting and using an iPhone friendly CSS file?

Apple offers extensive documentation and guidance for application and web development for the iPhone, and an iPhone software development kit will be available early next year.
You can register at no charge to be an 'entry level' developer and gain access to the iPhone Development Center by going to this page. The iPhone Reference Library, Tech Talk Videos and sample code projects are all available once you have logged in using your Apple ID.

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I've asked about Android- which I plan on targeting first- and it appears a major downside is that many AIR apps woud require additional software on older phones and that the required software is a bit of a space hog.
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Whether Flash would be the best tool might depend a lot on whether you know Flash, what kind of game you're doing, and whether all of the features you need to do can be done. For example, if having Game Center and iAds is vital, then you wouldn't want to use Flash for the time being.
Flash based apps on iOS do include the AIR runtime engine, but it isn't an external engine that gets installed once into the system, each app would have a copy of the engine. That's good, in that you don't have to worry whether someone installing a later app might cause your app to stop working. It does mean that each app is a few megabytes bigger download than the Android equivalent.
On Android, the when a user downloads an AIR based app for the first time, they automatically get given the AIR runtime too. After that, any AIR apps that use the runtime that is already on the device only has to download the app itself, unless the app requires a later version of AIR, in which case the user is prompted to download the later version of AIR. It's not too painful a process.
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How to promote my book "Beginning Web Development for Smartphones" on iBook

I have published a book "Beginning Web Development for Smartphones" on iBookStore. The book explains how to use PHP, MySQL and jQTouch for developing mobile web applications. Can anybody guide me the way to promote the above said book?

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No vector images in web-app for iPhone !?

Hello
I am developping a web-app for the iPhone
as the bandwith is low (in edge mode) I want to use vector images instead of bitmaps (gif, png ...)
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additional remark:
I made some tests, a vectorized icon could be 30 times smaller (and therefore faster to load) than its ".png" version !
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Don't think there's an automatic way to do this, but if you tap the top right corner of your screen it should take you straight to connectivity and you can disconnect wifi there ? Also why do you want to disconnect from the web, is it to save battery or data charges ? A 'smartphone' is of little use without a data package !
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Jacques ~ Welcome to the Support Communities. We're just users like yourself here — so we don't know what Apple's plans are. Alternatives to iWeb adapt their site content to smartphones, e.g.
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Howdy,
I got my post removed because it was was regarded "advertisement". My company developed an iPhone Chat service and have noticed that Apple does not have any developer forums. Perhaps one of yous can direct us in the right direction. We would like iPhone users to test our iPhone web app, but do not want to "advertise" any further.
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Diego
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OS X Lion is developed for Mac's, iOS is developed for iDevices. Although I agree Lion is more iOS like than any other previous version of OS X. What "terrible programming mistakes" are you looking to remove?

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https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Platforms
iPhone/iPad/iPod
'''We have no plans to release the full Firefox browser for iOS. The iOS SDK agreement requires apps to use Apple's own JavaScript engine''' (or none at all, like Opera Mini which downloads pre-rendered pages from Opera's servers and cannot run JavaScript code in the client). Because of this, w'''e have no supported way to distribute Firefox's rendering and JavaScript engine to iPhone users.'''
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Cool copy/paste web app for iPhone

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Here is a link for the Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_N6JOY4TFg
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Well its not at all bad, and i would say that the interface it a lot better than previous ones.
and even you email link to someone, you can't specify the text that you are refering to so you can be more specific and it also contains internal links and images that makes it to the point..

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