Developing a Website Specifically for the iPhone

[ab5zn]

Right off the bat, let me apologize if I'm about to ask questions that have been answered many times in this forum.

As an alternative to developing an iPhone app, my company decided to develop a website to be accessed from the iPhone. The website must look a lot like an iPhone app. I recently inherited the project. We are using javascript and jQuery on the browser side (with some C# code on the web server side).

I have several questions:

• I do not have an iPhone. Also, all of our development is done on Windows XP. I've been using a Windows app called MobiOne Test Center to simulate an iPhone. Is another reliable iPhone simulator available for Windows?
• Is Apple's iPhone Simulator available for Windows?
• Is some book or document available that discusses the development of a website specifically for the iPhone? (I know that books about iPhone app development are available, but I'm not developing an iPhone app, per se.)
• Would anyone who has experiences developing an iPhone website instead of an iPhone app care to share those experiences?

Thank you!
Dave

[RobotWoods]

There is some CSS set that mimics many app style elements, can't remember the name, but I'm guessing there isn't just one

but...

I have a site under development with very minimal jQuery (just a few .click functions)...and when I browsed to it on the iPhone, those items were not interactive. I would highly suggest getting at least an iPod Touch to test the browser...marketplace.mastercard.com had the 8GB one for $79 the other day.

I'm not saying jQuery is a no-go, perhaps my implementation is weak, but I would want to KNOW if it were the entire site.

[ab5zn]

Originally Posted by RobotWoods

There is some CSS set that mimics many app style elements, can't remember the name, but I'm guessing there isn't just one

but...

I have a site under development with very minimal jQuery (just a few .click functions)...and when I browsed to it on the iPhone, those items were not interactive. I would highly suggest getting at least an iPod Touch to test the browser...marketplace.mastercard.com had the 8GB one for $79 the other day.

I'm not saying jQuery is a no-go, perhaps my implementation is weak, but I would want to KNOW if it were the entire site.

Thanks for the reply.

jQuery: If it's not too much trouble, can you tell me specifically what in jQuery does not work on the iPhone?

CSS file: The main CSS file we are using is theme.min.css. I think it's from Apple.

iTouch: A couple of people on our team have an iPhone that I could use for occasional testing.

To access the site on an iPhone or iTouch, I need to figure out how to turn on WiFi on my laptop, which is where the site runs in development. Normally one enables WiFi on a laptop so that he can access the outside world. In my case, though, I need to enable WiFi so that a site running in Visual Studio on my laptop can be accessed by an iPhone/iTouch. (Because of our customer's strict security requirements, the only way the site will be accessible on the customer's server once we install it is by using an iPhone with a special security app installed.)