Steve Jobs recently announced at the WWDC that the iPhone will be able to allow developers to develop iPhone apps using the Safari browser as a platform (video). “We have been trying to come up with a solution to expand the capabilities of iPhone by letting developers write great apps for it and yet keep the iPhone reliable and secure, and we’ve come up with a very sweet solution.” There’s no SDK, you use web technologies and deliver your apps via the web.
Apple has released it’s latest beta of Safari 3.0 for both Mac and Windows. It’s super fast, and pages look just like they do on my Mac. I tried out a fairly complex DHTML layout in both IE and Safari and you can really see the speed difference.
The font-smoothing is slightly rougher, though. Also, the interface and all pages appear slightly darker than on my Mac. I imagine this is do to the differing default gamma between Macs and PCs. I hope that Apple accounts for this in a future release and brightens things up a bit. There are adjustments for the font rendering in the preferences panel, and setting the anti-aliasing to “Light” does help a bit. There’s no way to turn it off completely.
I currently work at Redmon Group in Alexandria, VA. It’s a great company, with a lot of extremely friendly and talented people. It’s also in a great location – right on the Old Town, Alexandria waterfront. We do tons of really cool work for the web and for museums, most if it in Flash.
We’re looking for Actionscript gurus to build RIAs and museum interactive exhibits. If you live in the Washington DC area, know Actionscript 2.0 and can show some great work and code samples, please apply.
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