Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site
Posted in Browsers, CSS, Coding, Design, Development, HTML, Reference, UI Design on November 29th, 2008 by Tony – Be the first to commentFlickr recently released a Flickr site custom tailored for the iPhone. They wrote about some of the rules they learnt doing this site, which I find fascinating. I’m pulling out the main points, but you really need to go read the detailed description of why they’re doing things the way they are.
- Don’t Use a JavaScript Library or CSS Framework
- Load Page Fragments Instead of Full Pages
- Don’t Build for Just One Device
- Optimize Everything
- Tell the User What is Happening
Now they’ve put together a library just for the iPhone that handles many of these items. The iUI framework seems to be a iPhone version of the YUI framework, but it’s a good start.