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The iPhone Interaction Emulator is a reworking / expansion of David Cann’s work intended to give you a sense of the kind of interaction users will have with your application or site on the iPhone. It is not intended as a replacement for testing on the phone itself, although it will give you a pretty good sense of what the application will feel like. Some functionality is limited or unavailable and there may be minor major rendering quirks. You can test any site (don’t forget the http bit), but not all sites will work that well. That doesn’t mean they won’t work on the actual iPhone. The actual iPhone can scale web pages instead of hackily fitting them to the screen size. Safari 3 gives the most realistic sense of what’s going on. This is a work in progress.
Why care about the iPhone? Not because it’s the next apple thing. The exciting part is thinking what a device where all the applications are web apps can be like and how to deal with that. Although a lot of developers were disappointed they didn’t get native code, we’re actually pretty curious about what web apps could be like when they are they only option for development.
