Mike, Thanks!
(1) Comparing YouTube and Google Maps - if you enter a maps.google.com- based URL in iPhone Safari, then the Maps app is displayed. However, if you enter a youtube.com-based URL, either general or video specific, it displays the public web site inside Safari. (2) Ok, good thoughts. Like Amazon did recently with their iPhone beta - notify users of the iPhone specific site, but offer the users a choice of which they would like to use. - Rich On Aug 28, 12:04 am, "Mike Brophy \(IntegraLearn\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rich, > > These are great questions. > > (1) The YouTube reference is probably a goof on my part, they were turning > slides pretty quickly. Now that you mention it, however, it might be > worthwhile trying to assemble a URL that references a particular YouTube > movie and see if, like the Google Maps scenario, that Safari invokes the > YouTube native client. Any takers? :-) > > (2) The Apple Team seemed to drill on this point quite a bit. They > reiterated that one of the major marketing messages about the iPhone is that > it displays the web beautifully "as is" and is the first mobile phone to do > so. They used the hypothetical that someone used to a particular on-line > banking site may not want to use the "iPhonified" version of the site should > the bank create one, so the user should always be offered the freedom to use > whatever version of the site they wish. Apple and User Freedom sounds like a > blogpost by itself ;-) Anyhow, that was how it was sold to those of us in > the audience. They didn't discourage evolving conventions such as having an > iphone.x.com version of a site or using a .mobi address -- they just > encouraged always giving the user a choice. > > Hope this answers your questions. > > Mike > RIActant Development --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
