Fast and furious

[Jesús Díaz Blanco]

On Jun 12, 2007, at 2:24 AM, Lon Varscsak wrote:

> It's interesting that Steve at D5 talked about how having a rich  
> client can be important to a good user experience (Google Maps on  
> the iPhone), but yet as developers we don't have that as an option.

Exactly:

 From the article:

> Or perhaps the only question that I want Apple to answer is:
>
> If AJAX is that good and the developers don't need an SDK, why has  
> Apple built a dedicated Mail applications or Google Maps dedicated  
> software into the iPhone? Why not reformat the CSS on the Web and  
> open a special view to .mac mail, Gmail or Google Maps made just  
> for iPhone Safari users ?
> I'm afraid the answer is very simple: because to do the cool stuff  
> that iPhone's Maps do, you need to access all the cool Mac OS X  
> classes the iPhone has. Period.
>
j.