Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at 05:02 PM

Browser Usage

I've long thought that the percentage of visits going to Firefox in my site statistics were oddly high. It turns out it’s pretty much in line with numbers put out by both Bob Sutor and Joe Gregorio

appleinsider.com / Sunday, October 05, 2008 at 01:20 AM

Latest iPhone Software supports full-screen Web apps

“One unpublicized feature introduced by Apple’s latest iPhone software updates is the ability to save Web apps to the home screen and have them launch in full-screen mode without the Safari wrapper, essentially mimicking the experience of a native app.”

tuaw.com / Saturday, September 13, 2008 at 09:21 AM

App disqualified from App Store because it 'duplicates iTunes functionality'

“An iPhone developer who created an app that manages and plays podcasts says the app was disqualified from the App Store because ‘it duplicates the functionality of the Podcast section of iTunes.’ That’s right, iTunes for the desktop.”

And the overwhelming majority of comments are actually in support of Apple’s decision, change the subject, or attack the author. Amazing.

evotech.net / Saturday, August 09, 2008 at 07:16 AM

Web Development for the iPhone

“You can specify CSS based on viewport orientation which you determine via javascript and update the orient attribute of the body element. Target the browser with body[orient=‘landscape’] or body[orient=‘portrait’]”

lifehacker.com / Friday, July 18, 2008 at 05:16 AM

Why You're Better Off Avoiding the iPhone

My feelings exactly. I can’t believe I'm going to consciously purchase something that’s so over the top defective-by-design, but I'm definitely going to buy it.

diveintomark.org / Friday, October 05, 2007 at 11:16 AM

If wishes were iPhones, then beggars would call

“My current theory is that it’s some twisted form of wish fulfillment. ‘I wish this company understood the value of openness, but they don’t, so I’m going to keep buying their closed, crippled shit until they get it.’”

blog.wired.com / Monday, August 20, 2007 at 03:12 PM

The IPhone Is Internet Explorer 4 All Over Again

“And the more I’ve been thinking about that argument, the more I realize that it’s exactly how Microsoft spun the proprietary, non-standard HTML features in IE 4.”

www-personal.umich.edu / Sunday, July 08, 2007 at 09:46 PM

SSH for iPhone

You had me at “SSH”.

thatphoneguy.com / Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 05:29 AM

Fully licensed

“I hope you can wipe the screen off!” — I fell off my chair.

youtube.com / Sunday, January 14, 2007 at 11:40 AM

Steve Jobs iPhone on Weekly Update [youtube.com]

Nails it.