lots of news things and not a peep?

Ashley Aitken mrhatken at mac.com
Tue Jun 12 04:14:22 PDT 2007


On 12/06/2007, at 6:36 PM, Jared Earle wrote:

> On 6/12/07, Ashley Aitken <mrhatken at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 12/06/2007, at 12:32 PM, LuKreme wrote:
>>
>> > On 11-Jun-2007, at 22:27, Ashley Aitken wrote:
>> >> On 12/06/2007, at 11:54 AM, LuKreme wrote:
>> >>> On 11-Jun-2007, at 20:26, Ashley Aitken wrote:
>> >>>> On another point, I wonder what the motivation is for moving
>> >>>> Safari to Windows.  It will surely have a hard time competing
>> >>>> with Firefox.
>> >>>
>> >>> Very simple, iPhone.
>> >>
>> >> I'm sorry, I don't see how Safari is tied to iPhone?
>> >
>> > Safari is the development platform for the iPhone.  Web2.0+Ajax via
>> > Safari's WebKit.
>>
>> No, I think you will find any text editor (or DreamWeaver or similar)
>> is the development platform.  WebKit just provides standard HTML,
>> Javascript, CSS, DOM, XmlHttpdRequest factilities (i.e. AJAX).
>>
>> Except for the access to the native iPhone APIs (for making a call,
>> calling other apps etc.) I don't see anything that should tie iPhone
>> Web2 apps to the iPhone or Safari.
>
> Right, because CSS renders identically on every browser. Oh, wait ...

And that ties iPhone Web2 apps to the iPhone or Safari how?

Cheers,
Ashley.




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