Safari Web Content Guide for iPhone

Short Description
Safari on iPhone, the application for browsing theweb on iPhone and iPod touch, is a fullweb browser running on a small handheld device with a high-resolution screen. This unique implementation of Safari responds to a finger as the input device and supports gestures for zooming and panning. It also renders webpages in portrait or landscape orientation. It contains many built-in features such as PDF viewing, video playback, and support for links to the native Phone, Mail, Maps, and YouTube applications.

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Because Safari on iPhone uses the same web engine as Safari on the desktop, your webpages might work well on iPhone without any modifications. Some differences exist, however, so at a minimum you should ensure that yourwebpages are compatible with Safari on iPhone.Next, you might optimize yourwebpages for iPhone simply as a convenience to the user. For example, ensure that yourwebpages work over both Wi-Fi and EDGE, scale correctly when rendered, and contain media that is viewable on iPhone. Finally, you might build custom web applications for iPhone that look and behave like native applications. All Safari web browsers use the same Web Kit engine. TheWeb Kit is an open source project as well as a framework in Mac OS X that lets developers embed a web browser in their Cocoa applications. TheWeb Kit has a JavaScript and Objective-C interface to access the Document Object Model (DOM) of a webpage. Dashboard, Mail, and many other Mac OS X applications also use theWeb Kit as an embedded browser. In addition to providing browser functionality, theWeb Kit also implements some extensions to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript including several specific to Safari on iPhone. This document teaches you how to separate your iPhone-specific web content from your other web content so that when you optimize yourweb content for iPhone, it stillworks on the desktop and other browsers. This document also covers some basics on tailoring web applications for iPhone.
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