Finally Rogers and Apple have agreed on a deal to bring the iPhone to Canada.
Not that I particularly care since I am a big fan of my Blackberry Curve. Multitouch or touch at all is great but when it comes to browsing through emails and doing the things that I do on a daily basis the Curve trackball gets my vote.
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And of course by “SDK” I mean an Apple SDK that consists of a single HTML page with half a dozen snippits of HTML.
Nonetheless there are some good tidbits there.
I was wondering about some event stuff and here is the general event info:
| Gesture |
Result |
| Double tap |
Zoom in and center a block of content |
| Touch and hold |
Display an information bubble |
| Drag |
Move the viewport or pan |
| Flick |
Scroll up or down (depending on the direction of the finger movement) |
| Pinch open |
Zoom in |
| Pinch close |
Zoom out |
Remember, since there is no mouse, hover events will not work.
You can have the iPhone make calls for you from HTML pages using tel: in the URL like this:
<a href="tel:1-408-555-5555">1-408-555-5555</a>
An iPhone specific CSS can be applied using the media attribute in the link element - which most developers probably ignore.
<link media="only screen and (max-device-width: 480px)"
href="iPhone.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
Also of interest is the viewport meta tag that lets you tell Safari on the iPhone how to scale and zoom your content:
<meta name="viewport" content="width = 320" />
<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=2.3, user-scalable=no" />
For lots more good info check out the recent post on Ajaxian and the google group.
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