Make Website and WebApp Compatible with iPhone and Blackberry
Most websites and web pages will be compatible and work fine on iPhone and Blackberry. However, it’s still possible to make the web sites more supportive, ready and friendly to Apple iPhone by giving more information to iPhone about how the webpage should be displayed on the iPhone browser. Beside, for web sites that try to emulate the functionality of the built-in iPhone applications such as webapps that use Canvas, AJAX functionality and limit the size of the page to 320×480px (or 480×320px), it’s best to ensure iPhone and Blackberry compatibility to ensure that the page is rendered and formatted correctly and avoid problem such as web page or application not scaling properly when rotate and Safari browser zooming out.
One of the best way with just one line change on website coding to make website and web app support iPhone and Blackberry is by telling the PDA phone of the viewport size of the overall page. To do so, simply add the following line to the HTML HEAD section of the web page:
<meta name=”viewport” content=”width=320″ />
viewport is visual formatting model for visual media in CSS 2.1 specification, where it is a window or other viewing area on the screen through which users consult a document (mean part of the screen that you’re actually seeing). User agents may change the document’s layout when the viewport is resized. Other parameters applicable for viewport include initial-scale, user-scalable, minimum-scale and, maximum-scale where you can try to make your website fit into iPhone and BlackBerry view area. The example of usage:
<meta name=”viewport” content=”initial-scale=1.0″ />
<meta name=”viewport” content=”user-scalable=false” />
You can mix the setting u want to use into a single META HTML code such as:
<meta name=”viewport” content=”width=320,user-scalable=false” />
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July 26th, 2009 22:13
Hey nice post,
Companies must look forward to have their websites iPhone compatible rather than runnig behind iPhone apps.
June 23rd, 2009 22:32
I read this completely and don’t understand it at all. I don’t understand it because you are a complete idiot. Please go back and look at your grammar.
This is one sentence?
May 19th, 2009 19:42
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March 25th, 2009 13:34
http://www.engageinteractive.co.uk/blog/2008/06/19/tutorial-building-a-website-for-the-iphone/#detection
this is the ultimate guide for building an iphone compatible website
January 6th, 2009 21:12
Nice post, i’ve been looking for articles about how to design and develop websites compatible with iphone
December 31st, 2008 11:56
It looks very simple, thank you