Kyle Barrow <kyle@pukupi.com>, 2007-01-10 06:16 +0900:
> I would be interested in hearing fellow keitai-lers comments on the
> Apple iPhone.
It's great to hear it'll have Safari/WebKit installed, and the
zooming features in the browser they show in the animated demos at
the Apple site (especially the Google Maps demo) are mighty cool
(assuming the browser will actually do what is shown in the demos).
It's unclear just what version of Safari it'll have. Clearly the
browser UI will be different than desktop Safari. But what about
the rest of the iceberg -- the browser core: HTML-CSS rendering
engines and Javascript handling, etc. -- particularly, SVG...
Current WebKit (the open-source browser core that both Apple
Safari and the Nokia S60 browser use) has decent SVG support, and
browser-side XSLT transformation support (including a scripting
interface to that XSLT support), but it's all modular, so it
doesn't necessarily mean those modules will be built into the
iPhone version of the browser.
Another big question is how open it'll be to third-party developers
and vendors for deployment of native apps to run on it. Or come
to think of it, if it'll have support for Java apps. Or Flash.
It'll be interesting to find out what CPU/chipset it'll have. But
it seems clear that it won't have GPS capability built in, which
is really unfortunate.
--Mike
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Received on Wed Jan 10 07:17:25 2007