Chapter 3. Redeveloping web pages for the iPhone

As you learned in chapter 2, iPhone-based web apps can give your users great opportunities to leverage the interconnectivity of the internet and to interact with other users. Throughout part 2 we introduce you to lots of tools that you can use to create web pages using web technologies that can be every bit as sophisticated as what you might write using the iPhone SDK.

Before we get there, though, we first want to touch on the fundamentals—those tools that you might use to improve your existing web pages for iPhone users, even before you begin writing totally new iPhone web apps.

The lessons in this chapter should be considered entirely foundational, as they’ll be the basis for all the web chapters that follow. They also have wider scope, because you can apply them to web pages that might be viewed on other platforms, not just those for sole use by iPhone users.

3.1. The iPhone viewport

3.2. Making your web pages iPhone friendly

3.3. Making your web pages iPhone optimized

3.4. Manipulating iPhone chrome

3.5. Capturing iPhone events

3.6. Redisplaying web pages

3.7. Supporting non-iPhone users

3.8. Summary