I installed a great Wordpress plug-in today called iWPhone (I read about it on TUAW) and it works really well! It automatically senses when someone is visiting the site via iPhone, and gives them this super-clean layout.
Oh a side note, why isn’t Apple’s web apps directory iPhone optimized? Isn’t that what the whole thing is about?
UPDATE: Well, it seems like it was causing some users to see my site “iPhone optimized” when they were just looking at it in Firefox on their computers. I’m not into that, so I’ve turned it off for now.
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24 Responses for "iPhone optimized!"
Apple is in an odd place right now with the iPhone optimized web pages. One of the touted features of the iPhone is a full Safari browser.
“With its advanced Safari browser, iPhone lets you see web pages the way they were designed to be seen, then easily zoom in by simply tapping on the multi-touch display with your finger.”
Putting up optimized versions of their pages would be diminishing this selling point, sort of. But, those iPhone optimized pages are just so good looking. Yummy.
How did you get a screen shot? Are you still on 1.0.2?
Doesn’t work on my iPod touch though.
I presume a little tweak to the user agent detection would fix that.
[...] applications will be coming to the platform, this is twice as true. A recent comment posted on Veronica Belmont’s “iPhone Optimized” blog post talks about how one of the iPhone’s touted features is that the mobile Safari browser gives [...]
I want one
Come on Apple, make is work on other networks already!!!
I’m getting the iPhone page just coming here with FireFox! It’s only the homepage that’s doing it though…
Sweet! And yea, what’s up with their Webapp page? Did someone not get the memo?
w00t! Love the new format – makes life much easier, but I think you may need to update the plug-in ‘cuz my iPod touch didn’t detect it.
Mahalo daily, where are you?
That is a clean interface and what a great idea for a piece of software…
Thanks V. If I go to Veronicabelmont.com (without www) I will go to the Iphone layout
and at the moment while i’m in comments i’m also in iphone layout..:( on a windows computer btw..
Good Stuff V.. I have just started using the iPhone web app for Typepad and is works really also. I have not tried your site on the iPhone but now I will…
That’s so weird! I can’t recreate that. Maybe I should just turn the dumb thing off then. Hehe.
hey V did it get disabled I’m viewing the site on my iPhone but not getting the layout. Cant wait to get home and put this on my wordpress
Ok, it’s not doing it any longer… but here’s what was happening before: http://webpages.charter.net/applegatem/iphonepage.jpg
[...] on Veronica Belmont’s post regarding a Wordpress plug-in to make your blog iPhone friendly. It looks to have worked pretty [...]
So I just watched my recorded episode of Brothers & Sisters, and I swear there is a Veronica Belmont look-alike around fifteen minutes in, counting commercials.
Hi Veronica – It’s the ContentRobot team – thanks for checking out our iWPhone plugin. We are sorry you experienced some problems with it. If you could shoot us a quick email, we’d like to try to help iron out the problem. We have lots of people who are happily using the plugin and we like to try to address any issues that others have. We are also working on a new version that has lots of new features and is easily customized to match the look of your site. Thanks!
Hey V!
Can you please tell us how you got the screenshot direct from your iPhone! I’d love to be able to do that!
any word on mahalo?
The screen shot optimizes great for my blackberry. Would be great to detect and optimize for any handheld.
Where the F is mahalo daily?
The plug-in is nice but does not present the user with a link back to the regular version, or prompt the visitor to confirm that they want the iPhone version, which can be annoying for users that might have wanted to access a feature on the regular version.
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