Will You Change Your Web Site For the iPhone? 336
An anonymous reader calls to our attention a blog post about the way the iPhone's multi-touch UI will strain the interface conventions of Web 2.0. This looming clash comes clearer as Apple releases more details of the iPhone's UI. Much has been made about the iPhone including Safari to provide a full web browsing experience. But this reader is wondering how compatible certain sites will be with the iPhone's input. From the post: "[Web 2.0-style interaction] makes somewhat heavy use of 'onmouse' events and cursor changes... along with CSS a:hover styles. The iPhone challenges those particular Web 2.0 conventions, though, because it is a device that not only adds support for another pointer, but at the same time eliminates them as interface objects... [T]he user doesn't get to express their attention with the iPhone... They only get to express their immediate action." This reader asks, "What other pitfalls lurk in the multi-touch web? Do any Slashdot readers plan to adjust their sites to ensure they work with the iPhone, and can you think of any similar issues that will crop up with such a different browsing experience?"
Yeah, right (Score:5, Funny)
Segway (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Nah... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I write to standards (Score:3, Funny)
What are ya, son, a Communist? ;-)
Re:Won't be a big deal (Score:5, Funny)
Porn sites.
Everything on thoose sites seems to submit a form, they're worse than the DMV.
Re:You're a Fucking DWEEB dawson (Score:3, Funny)
Re:You're a Fucking DWEEB dawson (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Segway (Score:4, Funny)
My personal website will be redesigned... (Score:5, Funny)
[!-- some CGI crap: if browser == iphone then [size=6]HANG THAT MOTHER FSCKER THE FSCK UP AND DRIVE!!!!![/size] -->
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Re:Conjecture about the iPhone? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hype, hype, hype (Score:5, Funny)
Can someone please tell me how Apple pulls this off?
Magic runes, chutzpah and Steve Jobs' third testicle.
Re:Conjecture about the iPhone? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Conjecture about the iPhone? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Conjecture about the iPhone? (Score:3, Funny)
If I target desktop devices, and hover is perfectly intuitive and usable for my target public, I'll use it as much as I want.
Just because there's some new fancy device which can't perform rollover and 0.5% of my visitors will use it, doesn't matter I should wreck the desktop users experience.
Re:Segway (Score:1, Funny)
"'There are design firms out there that could come up with things we've never thought of,' Jobs continued, 'things that would make you shit in your pants.'"
source: Steve Kemper, Code Name Ginger. [hbs.edu]
Re:Conjecture about the iPhone? (Score:2, Funny)
Are you afraid your mom will see what you type on slashdot?