Comments on: iPhoney: Test Your Site for iPhone Compatibility

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:22:08 +0000

This article is incorrect:

“You can instruct it to disable plugins such as Flash and JavaScript, which aren’t yet supported by the iPhone.”

While the iphone doesn’t support Flash or Java Applets, it does in fact support most Javascript.

By: AlexW

AlexW — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:16:16 +0000

How accurate is ‘pretty accurate’ because I know the design view rendering of both DW and Contribute CS3 leaves a lot to be desired?

Device Central is a great concept but I’m bit skeptical. It has all the phone mockups and correct screensizes pre-programmed so if you’re just looking to size graphics or test navigation reainto but whether what you see in Device Central is exactly what the rendering engine in your phone would generate is maybe more questionable.

By: Tyssen

Tyssen — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:43:40 +0000

Dreamweaver CS3 has a system called Device Central which allows you to view your sites offline in any mobile phone that can surf the web, and it’s pretty accurate!

How accurate is ‘pretty accurate’ because I know the design view rendering of both DW and Contribute CS3 leaves a lot to be desired?

By: wads

wads — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:37:47 +0000

Dreamweaver CS3 has a system called Device Central which allows you to view your sites offline in any mobile phone that can surf the web, and it’s pretty accurate!

By: mountainash

mountainash — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:47:18 +0000

For a closer experience (than Opera) you can download the Safari beta (available for Mac and Windows) and try your site at http://iphonetester.com/

By: elemental70

elemental70 — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:25:01 +0000

Will this work on linux?

By: brothercake

brothercake — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:05:39 +0000

Yes, Opera in “small-screen rendering” mode uses handheld media CSS where available.

Does Safari on the iphone use handheld media? Is it comparable with Safari on the desktop, or with any other mobile device?

I hate to be a cynic, but unless the software accurately emulates the client environment, it’s basically useless.

By: AlexW

AlexW — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:25:00 +0000

I’d think so. I know Opera Mobile supports the ‘handheld’ media type when it’s used, so I’d presume Shift F11 does the same on the full Opera Browser.

By: Tyssen

Tyssen — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 07:04:58 +0000

Ah OK, but you can simulate Opera Mobile by selecting Shift + F11 within your normal desktop browser so maybe that’d be close?

By: AlexW

AlexW — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 06:56:10 +0000

Look forward to a Windows version being available soon but I’m wondering if using the Opera Mini demo would get you close enough in the interim? Usually if your site looks right in Opera, it’ll be pretty close in Safari so you’d think that if it looks OK in Opera Mini, it wouldn’t be too far out on the iPhone.

I’d guess that Opera Mobile rather Opera Mini would be a closer match to how Safari on iPhone behaves. Opera mini pages are processed, stripped and compressed on the server before they make it client on your phone.