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Apple WebClib Bookmark Icons

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Software update 1.1.3 for the Apple iPhone introduced the “WebClip icon”, which gives you a convenient shortcut button from your iPhone to a web site. There are now over 4 million iPhones in the hands of users… probably not all 4 million of those people want to go to your web site, but if they do then surely you want to reward then with a pretty bit of WebClip swag, don’t you?

WebClip icons work similarly to the favicon.ico file, but in this case you store the icon as a PNG file in /apple-touch-icon.png

You can specify a different location in the <head></head> element with a line of HTML similar to this:
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iPhone Resources

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

Right now I have enough work to do on uvfood.com without adding iPhone support that only I would use, so I will (reluctantly) wait to work on an iPhone interface to it.

In the meantime, I’m going to stash some iPhone-related links here.

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Developing Web Content for the iPhone

Friday, July 6th, 2007

Apple has published guidelines for developing web content for the iPhone. Some of the guidelines are just good practice (separating HTML, Javascript and CSS, for instance). Some of it is informational (how many pixels you can expect to be available in the iPhone - at least, in this version of it). Some of it is very iPhone-specific (META tags to help control the viewport and scaling).

The article also includes guidelines for encoding audio and video for access over EDGE and Wifi networks.

The iPhone runs a slimmed down version of Apple’s desktop browser “Safari” - you get real HTML, Javascript and CSS support, and it can do Ajax. In my few days with an iPhone I haven’t found any web sites that simply didn’t work on it, including Javascript-heavy sites like Flickr.

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