iPhone enabled website

[deegeorge]

Hi,

I would like to know about iPhone enabled websites. What is an iPhone enabled website. What are the technologies required to create an iPhone enabled website. WML or XHTML Basic is better to create an iPhone enabled website.


Please reply fast.

Regards,
Deeps

[Frinavale]

I don't think that this is really an ASP.NET question.
Your develop iPhone enabled websites using CSS and styling techniques (for example aListApart has a decent article on the topic here: "Put Your Content in My Pocket").

The only thing that you'd really be interested in from the ASP.NET aspect of things is determining which CSS style sheet to use at the time of the request. You can determine the user's browser using the Request.Browser property. For example, you could have one CSS style sheet used for mobile devices and another CSS style sheet used for regular browsers and use the appropriate style sheet depending on which browser the user is connecting to your website with.

I've moved this question to the CSS/HTML forum.

-Frinny

[Atli]

"iPhone enabled website" is just like any other website, except that it is designed for a smaller browser with a limited set of CSS/HTML capabilities. (Sort of like coding for IE6...)

But you are going about this in the wrong way. You shouldn't be asking for iPhone support, you should be asking for mobile support. Keep in mind that the iPhone only represents a fraction of the mobile market. - Granted, the iPhone is a bit ahead of the other mobiles, but they will soon catch up.

Bottom line: don't design specifically for the iPhone. Design your sites to work in the other mobiles first (Nokia and Blackberry lead the mobile market) and then add the extra stuff for the iPhone. (Similar to how we sometimes use JavaScript in a normal browser. So that the site works without it, but works better with it.)

You may find this interesting. (If you don't mind a bit of swearing...)
QuirksBlog:The iPhone obsession