Wrox Programmer to Programmer offers “The must-have reference for building and optimizing Web applications for Safari on iPhone 3.0″. It is available in paperback or Kindle Edition.
View more of this book’s description and purchase at a discount at Amazon.
“You should read this document if you want your web content to look good and perform well on either the desktop or iPhone OS, plan to write iPhone OS-specific web content, use iPhone OS-specific style sheets, or use iPhone application links in your web content. Definitely read this document if you are creating a custom web application for either platform.”
Just as he did when Safari for Windows first arrived, Aviv Raff immediately went to work on Chrome yesterday to find it’s vulnerabilities. Because Chrome is based on Webkit, the same application framework as Safari, it shares some of the same flaws.
Google has announced that they will release the Beta version of Chrome today (for Windows). They haven’t made it publicly available as of this writing, but have given some sneak peaks of it’s features, philosophies, processing, and design in a comic book.
Webkit is the application framework which Safari is built on, developed by Apple. It went “open source” in June 2005, but on June 11, 2007 (Safari 3’s release date) a Windows port was added. Leander Kahney from Wired said recently that it appears that Apple is turning Webkit into ” a big open-source development project to rival Mozilla”. Kahney also stated, “Unlike Mozilla, which has only a nonprofit foundation to back its efforts, two big companies are pushing WebKit: Apple and Nokia, which is using the technology for some of its smartphones.”
