iPhone simulator, see how your site looks!
Over at Creative Techs they have a great write up of the iPhone simulator that is part of the iPhone SDK. The iPhone simulator allows you to view (without an iPhone) what your websites will look like on the iPhone. This is a very handy tool considering a lot of people browse the internet with their iPhones and you may want to start thinking about developing your website for this platform.
If you are a web designer, your clients may soon start worrying how their websites work on an iPhone. That’s because after only eight months, iPhones now account for a remarkable 71% of all US Mobile Browser web traffic.
Designing websites that take advantage of the iPhone web environment requires more than simply designing for a smaller screen size. The iPhone automatically scales websites when needed. iPhone readers use multi-touch gestures to zoom or move around the page. Flash isn’t supported, and neither are larger animated GIFs (a surprise to me).
Tucked away in Apple’s free iPhone Software Development Kit is a terrific iPhone Simulator you can use to test and preview your websites. In the full version of this tip we’ll show you where that iPhone Simulator application is hidden, and include a few tips on how to test various iPhone features.
Read more at Creative Techs