Designing for mobile safari
The iPhone is out and if you haven’t had a chance to browse the internet on it yet you’re missing some pretty cool stuff. It doesn’t browse the “mobile web” as we know it — it browses the “real” one. If you’re interested in testing out your site to see how it looks you need only go as far as making a small window in Safari, yes? The answer isn’t quite so easy; the mobile version of Safari has a few neat behaviors of it’s own like it’s zooming property and how some form elements are treated. There’s no need for me to go over it here though, because A List Apart has done a great job covering it already in two of their articles: Put Your Content in My Pocket and Put Your Content in My Pocket Part 2.
Before you start wondering why you should care it would be a good time to point out that Apple just released wifi compatible iPods. They too can browse the internet. Now how many people do you know who have an iPod? There are quite a few I’m sure. Within a few years that number will only grow and with iPhones becoming popular the chances a visitor to your site is using the mobile version of Safari just went up.
